DustyGmt
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Thread title is just the beginning of the question: If you have a gun that malfunctions, would you retire it from carry or self defense.
I'll expand a lil more on that, most of the time a gun malfunctions its because it's dirty, damaged and of need of maintenance or parts replacement, but if it were to still malfunction from time to time, would you consider it unfit for SD?
Just wondering in general but to be specific to my particular issue and gun, I've got a couple 870's that I'm really fond of, one is a sporting/trap gun mostly and the other a HD/SD gun and I haven't had any problems until recently some failure to extract and inadvertently slamming a live round into the spent shell in the chamber.
I replaced the extractor and within the next 25, 50 and 75 shell intervals (total of 4 FTE's), I continued to have the issue periodically. The chamber is very well polished and the spring and extractor seem and feel to be in good working order, but I guess I need to shoot it more and see if I can work it out but needless to say it's back in its case and the mossberg that's beat and well beyond its prime and in need of some new parts is still going strong and sits close by.
I know it's a minor issue that can be troubleshooted, just curious if anybody would do the same. Have faith a lil shaken and retire it until say 1000ish shells trouble free?
I think I would choose a stone cold reliable .380 handgun over a shotgun that has had malfunctions (at least recent) even though you're unlikely to need more than one 12ga 00bk to address an issue.
Just the way my brain works, that 870 is tainted in my eyes until I get ALOT more trigger time with it.
I'll expand a lil more on that, most of the time a gun malfunctions its because it's dirty, damaged and of need of maintenance or parts replacement, but if it were to still malfunction from time to time, would you consider it unfit for SD?
Just wondering in general but to be specific to my particular issue and gun, I've got a couple 870's that I'm really fond of, one is a sporting/trap gun mostly and the other a HD/SD gun and I haven't had any problems until recently some failure to extract and inadvertently slamming a live round into the spent shell in the chamber.
I replaced the extractor and within the next 25, 50 and 75 shell intervals (total of 4 FTE's), I continued to have the issue periodically. The chamber is very well polished and the spring and extractor seem and feel to be in good working order, but I guess I need to shoot it more and see if I can work it out but needless to say it's back in its case and the mossberg that's beat and well beyond its prime and in need of some new parts is still going strong and sits close by.
I know it's a minor issue that can be troubleshooted, just curious if anybody would do the same. Have faith a lil shaken and retire it until say 1000ish shells trouble free?
I think I would choose a stone cold reliable .380 handgun over a shotgun that has had malfunctions (at least recent) even though you're unlikely to need more than one 12ga 00bk to address an issue.
Just the way my brain works, that 870 is tainted in my eyes until I get ALOT more trigger time with it.
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