My suped up 176

[Inrut24/7]

 I bought my h&r 176 36" barreled 12 ga from another member a few monthes back,  I sent the barrel to a smith who specializes in card guns. I had him backbore,  put a match chamber in for winchester universal 7 1/2 shot, and resleeve the barrel to .680  I put my boyds factory second thumbhole stock and varmint forarm from my 22 ppc, "going to get a new one for the ppc"   and put a trigger assist on which really helped the trigger pull alot.  here is a pic of the gun and a target I shot at 23 -24 yards,  it shoots a great pattern and sometimes even blows holes,  for anyone not familar with card shooting the closest bb to the center x wins.



 

[Lon371]

  Gun looks nice and shoots nice groups. Where did you get that forend? Looks great on that gun. Good job.

Lonny

[Rustyinfla]

  Nice looking gun. Do you have a lot of card matches where you are?

  I looked into it a few years ago but never could find many matches down here. Heck around Thanksgiving we used to have turkey shoots down here but they don't even do that any more.

[Inrut24/7]

Thanks, the forend is a gunstocks inc.    There are 7 different sportsmens clubs that have shoots all fall from mid september up untill the last week of november, and one club that has shoots from febuary untill the end of march.  Alot of the clubs are going to .680 guns or bigger. 

[moose]

good job, look like a shooter too

[woodsdweller]

all i can say is wow!! i cant believe that is the 176 i sold you. it looks great and shoots well too. good luck and glad it is being put to good use.

[shaner]

thats a dandy for  sure i shoot turkey/ card shoots and love it , but our shoots  are gauged  and this puppy wouldnt be allowed in it, no sleeves or tighter then 675 chokes

[Inrut24/7]

Thanks shaner, I also had the same guy put wadstoppers into some factory mossberg  835 chokes, a .695 and a .680  it really helped them out also.

[shaner]

ive heard of those , but never knew the  whole story behind them?

[Inrut24/7]

I went to a shoot last night and took a 2nd, a 3rd, two 4ths and a 6th with the 176.  on the last shot of the night I Broke my fireing pin, or somthing, All i know is that when i pull the trigger with the action open no fireing pin comes out of the hole, and when i shake it i can hear some rattling in there,  looks like i have to break out the mossberg.  One guy at the shoot said that some firing pins for the older h&Rs are hard to find, is this true?   The Frame for this gun appears to be the same size and shape as my handi rifles, but i tried all three handi frames and none of the 3 even came close to closing with the 176 barrel,  I am going to get this fixed, but i would like to get a back up frame for it too, is there a certain year or serial numbers that have a better chance of fitting with this barrel?  thanks.