The Browning Superposed/Citori mainspring compression tool is a very cheap and simple tool to make and use. It is also almost indispensable for anyone who works on double shotguns. It consists of nothing more than a cheap set of channel lock pliers with a notch ground on one jaw to lock into the mainspring strut and a claw on the other to grip any area of the receiver tang. One can make them as clean and fancy as you wish using a mill with carbide tooling to make the cuts. Or they can be as rough and simple as the one in this video that I made in a hurry, on a grinder 15 years ago after breaking my first or possibly sixth one. I’m sure that the only reason that Brownells has never manufactured a tool like this is that everyone would take a look at the picture and grind their own from a $7.00 pair of Walmart channel locks.
Post time: Mar-08-2017