There is a problem with my Chiappa 1886 that Chiappa has failed to help me with, they want me to ship the gun away for like half a year.
Before I'd do that, I would try to take the gun apart myself... but given how much I've heard how difficult this gun is to take apart/put together, that's not something I want to do unless it's an absolute last resort.
I thought that must have been exaggerated until I saw this video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3fgm3RJn0Q
Watched that and thought "yikes". Doable, but I dont have hours right now to mess around with this
The problem is that many times the loading gate wont fully open, it opens halfway until i either SLAM the lever or put the hammer all the way down. You might think 'well just load it after firing'... thats fine, but at the range sometimes I will load at different times while it's rested up on the bags. It's overall an extreme nuisance.
Does anyone know specifically if I could possibly fix this without taking it all apart? What could cause this? If I do have to take it apart, what exact piece of which part do you think I should polish or whatever?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/r86deemxkek9eyg/1.mov?dl=0
Edit I just compared play in lever to my Miroku 1886. This shows how loose it is too... on my Miroku its so tight fitting you cant even jiggle the lever more than 1cm. Maybe something is way wrong with it?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kqj2auhjnfhcrze/2.mov?dl=0