[Ulysses]

What is the barrel length of the gun you bought? How many choke tubes? Extended or flush chokes? Pictures would be nice too.

 

[Ulysses]

My friend has not experienced the cold weather issue to this point, but as mentioned she purchased in March. That is past our coldest weather here in Florida and those in other areas would laugh at our "cold" weather anyway. :lol: It may never be an issue here, but will monitor our guns through the winter and report if we have the same problem.

This "cold weather issue" could easily be solved by removing the buttstock and soaking/cleaning the action parts (hammers, springs, sears, etc) in kerosene or mineral spirits for 15 minutes. Then allow parts to dry and lubricate lightly with lightweight gun oil. You MIGHT need to remove the firing pins from their recess to clean them, but I doubt it. It's highly likely that the soaking/cleaning would take care of that.

As for the tight fitting forend latch, again that's an easy fix with some VERY LIGHT smoothing/polishing of the latching interface. If you don't know what I'm talking about on this, take it to someone more knowledgeable. Also a small dab of grease on that interface will help a lot.

As to the 5 or 6 pound trigger pull, with a good cleaning and lubrication as above, that pull weight will likely lighten up by about 1 pound (maybe more) after a few thousand rounds.

 

[Ulysses]

Ulysses, I suggested some light polishing on the forend latch but my friend isn't comfortable doing home gunsmithing and I don't think she trusted me to work on her new toy. In light of that I recommended lubrication and repeated vigorous operation of the latch and that has remedied that issue.
Also think you are right about the trigger pull and plan to test her gun next time we shoot and compare it to my new one, I suspect hers will be lighter after 8 months of shooting. Appreciate your suggestion of removing the stock and degreasing the trigger mechanism then applying some light oil, I will do that with mine to perhaps give it a head start on the break on process.

I think it's a good idea to do the stock removal and cleaning of the insides on a new O/U even though not all of them need it. You just never know what's inside the action on a new gun. Some have an excess of sticky rust protectant which can gum up things. Some will have metal shavings or wood chips from the manufacturing process. Just because someone's buddy bought an O/U and never had a problem in the first 10,000 rounds doesn't mean that everyone will be as lucky. Besides, if you're going to own an O/U, it pays to be somewhat familiar with the insides because you'll likely need to know that eventually.

I would hazard a guess that about 2/3 of the new O/U's that are returned to the manufacturer for repair during the first couple thousand rounds could have been easily fixed, or better yet prevented, by some simple maintenance or minor "fix" by the owner if they can do just some simple basic things.

 

[Ulysses]

Thanks for the review. Great pictures. Looks like a lot of gun for the relatively small amount of money.

 

[Ulysses]

Does this Weatherby Orion sporting have a steel receiver? I am considering it vs the Tristar TT-15 sporting.

Yes.

"Forged steel receiver."

https://weatherby.com/shotguns/orion/