BBroadside
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Today I shot two rounds of skeet. So my Remington 870 Express 12-gauge digested 50 rounds of #8 no problem.
Then I decided to try out the new slug barrel I got and the five rounds of Brenneke K.O. slugs. First shot, and the action opened by itself. My 870 thought she was an autoloader for a second. In an admittedly dumb move, I fired off the other four rounds (edit: all slugs) with no further odd behavior. (Accuracy was not bad, incidentally.)
As I was driving home, I decided I was a complete numbskull for having shot the last four rounds. Now the questions is - what exactly happened?
Was this some sort of an anomaly from not having closed the action properly in the first place, i.e., the weapon is still shootable if the shooter is reliable? I wouldn't expect a pump shotgun to fire out of battery but I suppose stranger things have happened.
Or has some part gotten tweaked in a way that makes it iffy for the action to stay closed? Should I pull it apart and look from something bent/broken?
Then I decided to try out the new slug barrel I got and the five rounds of Brenneke K.O. slugs. First shot, and the action opened by itself. My 870 thought she was an autoloader for a second. In an admittedly dumb move, I fired off the other four rounds (edit: all slugs) with no further odd behavior. (Accuracy was not bad, incidentally.)
As I was driving home, I decided I was a complete numbskull for having shot the last four rounds. Now the questions is - what exactly happened?
Was this some sort of an anomaly from not having closed the action properly in the first place, i.e., the weapon is still shootable if the shooter is reliable? I wouldn't expect a pump shotgun to fire out of battery but I suppose stranger things have happened.
Or has some part gotten tweaked in a way that makes it iffy for the action to stay closed? Should I pull it apart and look from something bent/broken?
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