Well I am almost back to working on this, sort-of. I have a piece of material to make the missing slide and rail, finally. It may end up being a winter project but I shall see.
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Well I am almost back to working on this, sort-of. I have a piece of material to make the missing slide and rail, finally. It may end up being a winter project but I shall see.
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Good afternoon all. Very first post here, have a pot and some molds, but turns out vintage is the reason for joining! I am based in southern Colorado and this Sunday received a 12 and 28 gauge Stout Rapid Reloader from an old employee of the Shootin Den. If the name John Guitar III means anything to anyone, that was his boss. These did come with some ad copy, two manuals, correspondence btw CM Stout and JG III, and some spare parts. I believe the wad and primer feeds are missing. I cannot seem to get pictures uploaded, and the file size of the manual is 20 mb. At the quality I scanned everything at, it totals 96.5 MB. Any advice on hosting these files, at least the manuals and such, would be appreciated.
Very good find x 2!
JW
That is a great find. I need life to stop getting in the way so I can work on my 2. Maybe this winter.
The manuals do contain a parts list, in addition to some improvements the company recommended after initial sale (grinding parts for better wad feeding). The 28 ga appears more complete, I have not investigated the primer feed system. This thread was the most conversation I could find on these!
Sounds about right when I got my first one I couldn't really find anything. I do still intend to convert one to load brass shells, at this rate it will be when I retire, like 10-15 years. Hopefully not. I have a copy of the manual mine came with too.
I do fully anticipate these to be a little finicky to run but that is kind of the fun part. I'm not loading a million shells.
After looking at the parts btw these two, I pulled the primer slide arm off the 12 ga and realized the random pipes I was given were the wad and primer tubes! See pictures. I do not own a 28ga myself. I appear to have a spare 12g wad tube and some spare or additional primer tubes. The last pic shows the original 12g broken spider casting and its platform's wad fingers uh... modifications.
The other 12ga platform has the primer arm, but not the wad fingers. I am unsure if it would be worthwhile to try and remove the die head to move them around.
I would mix matching to get one that works for what you want to do and then go from there. Lately I have found I am not going through the 12ga as fast as I had pre bs from the past few years. so things are lower priority. But I have to admit I do kind of want to tinker on mine now seeing yours. On a related note I think the 28ga loader is fairly rare which if i found one I would pick up a 28 ga shotgun just to complete the package.
If you guys keep showing off those Stout reloaded, I may have to start shooting shotguns again! That’s actually where I started doing serious reloading.
Froggie
I did manage to disassemble the 12 a bit last night. Two screws hold the column to the base, and only a single large one up top next to the powder hopper needs to be removed to pull the die head. Needed some light taps to get em moving, everything went back together just fine.