Browning Gold not cycling 1 1/8 shells

[hardly]

Just took it to the gun shop for a good clean and it still won't cycle 1 1/8 oz loads.  Brownings website says it will shoot them.  The gun belongs to a friend and I have no experience with Brownings.   Is this normal for a Browning Gold or is there a problem with the gun.

[RWH24]

I hunted with a father/son duo all dove season and they both shot Browning Gold's. They shot Rem Heavy Dove Sure Shot and Win Silver box 1 1/8oz loads. What drams powder is your shells? The father just wiped his gun down after every hunt, 2-4 times a week. He had to finally clean and lube it 2 weeks before season was over. If I can aford ir next spring, I willown ONE TOO. If my WIFE gives me permission.HAH!

Randy
 

[RWH24]

Reprint fon a previous Post I made:

Well, a friend and I went to Academy Sports in Plano, Tx Saturday. He picked up a new shotgun for him and his grown, adult son. He bought 2 just a like. The Browning Gold Hunter in 12ga. Very nice guns.
Yesterday, Sunday, my friend, his son and I went to the back pasture with clay birds and some game loads to "break in" the new Brownings. They had been cleaned and lubed prior to the shoot, "Meticulously!" WEll a few fail to ejects, fail to feeds and we are on our way to find out neither gun likes 7/8th oz shot game loads. 1 1/8th oz works fine. Winchester Game loads is what was left over from last dove season and bought new recently for practice prior to this year shoot. I was pulling the targets, my friend was callin and blasting. I heard a different sound so I looked at him and he had this AW SHUCKS look and politely said: " My gun just blew up!"  I looked and sure enough, the bolt apparently failed to lock up prior to being fired, there was case head separation and it blew downward pushing the follower out the bottom. He says " My ears are ringing!"
He had the gun mounted shooting at a clay bird when it went KaBoom so I imagine he felt more too. To say the least we quite for the day. The son's gun had no similar explosion. He did have ftf/fte problems with 7/8th oz loads none on 1 1/8 oz.
Ammo or a burr in the action? We had shot about 25-35 rnds thru this gun prior to the "Ending" Give me your opinion on what happened.  

Thanks,
Randy

[Bullseye]

I have one that will not cycle any load from light to heavy.  If I totally tear it down and clean it I might get 5-10 shots using hunting loads without a jam and it is downhill from there.  Went skeet shooting the other day and it jammed on 50 out of 50 shots on my wife.  It was not this bad when it was new, it is now out of warranty.  Big POS in my opinion, and an expensive one at that.  Good luck with it.  The way the thing operates and gets so dirty on the gas operating system, I do not see how it would ever work but this is my first experience with an autoloader so maybe they are all like this.