I was at the range today with a friend of mine that is on the local Sheriff's dept. I brought my 870 equipped with an 18.5 in police rifle sighted barrel. He brought along some old dept ammo to shoot up loose in an ammo can. Winchester low brass quail loads. I really don't know the specifics. He was loaded up the 870 and fired a couple of rounds and had a failure to extract. He down loaded the mag and I had a look in the chamber as the fired hull was still in there. What I saw was a fired hull pushed about 1/2 inch in the chamber. He got a cleaning rod and tapped it out. We inspeceted the hull to find it was bulged just forward of the brass. We were like how did that happed. It turned out it was a 16 ga round. It probably fired as it should but during recoil, the smaller rim moved up into the chamber as the gun recoiled back. Is there anything that I need to worry about except to be more carefull next time. I need this shotgun for a shotgun class next month and really didn't want to buy another barrel if I don't have to.
Thanks, Flip.
Thanks, Flip.