Another Tristar semi-auto shotgun question…

[bdj357]

I was at the gunshow this weekend looking at a Tri—Star ATAC semi-auto trying to decide if I was going to buy one online. Action didn’t feel all that bad. An older gentleman there stated he put a dab of diamond lapping compound on the action and hand cycled as well as fired 50 rounds through it. He said it was “butter” when he was done. He said it barely takes any metal off, just smooths the surfaces. Kind of makes sense. Never heard of this. Is this recommended?

 

[ancjr]

I had a $199 special pump action that I cleaned and "lubed" with Flitz out of the box to try this. It didn't hurt anything. Valve lapping compound might be something to experiment with. Just as an experiment.

 

[92FSTech]

If you do end up doing that, make sure you get every last little bit of that compound back out. Abrasives won't do good things for the action bits over the long term. Personaly, I'd rather polish the action parts by hand to make sure I'm only hitting the surfaces that I want to smooth out, and not introducing undesired wear to others. Putting lapping compound in the action is probably quicker and easier initially,but I like the control of knowing what's being done to what, and I don't want that stuff all over my action.

The other option is just lube it and shoot it a bunch...it'll likely wear in on its own in short order.

 

[Tactically Fat]

A different track:

You'll probably be disappointed in the long-term reliability of that shotgun.

The Turks can and do make some quite good shotguns; but generally speaking - the semi-auto ones aren't "it". This is indeed a generalized blanket statement - but it also generally applies across the board to all Turkish semi-autos; from those designed as upland game / fowl hunting rigs to all those POS AR-style shotguns.