LoneStarWings
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I picked up a 930 SPX yesterday at Dicks's. It was $590 + tax. First I took it home, stripped it, wiped the shipping oil off, applied some CLP to everything, then wiped it off. I then put some very light grease on the appropriate lube points.
Next I took it to a local range with a "shotgun pit". The ghost ring sights are very nice and intuitive. The recoil seemed about half of what I got from a comparable sized pump gun, which was very very nice, especially on slugs. I can't emphasize enough how low the recoil is by comprison to an 870. I also loved how easy it was to load shells into the magazine. They seemed to slide in much easier than the remingtons and berettas I've handled.
I fired:
20 Remington Slugger 1oz rifled slugs
25 Remington Express #1 16 pellet buckshot
5 Remington Express 00 9 pellet buckshot
50 Remington #7 1/2 game load birdshot
I always made sure the magazine was full before a string of shots, and also "ghost loaded" a round onto the lifter each time for a total of 9 shots per string. I never had a ghost-load related malfunction. There were no stove pipes or cyling-related malfunctions either, which I thought was great for a brand new gun. Even the light birdshot loads cycled well.
I had 2 malfunctions. The first occured on the 46th shot, during some 00 buckshot, about 4 rounds into the magazine. The magazine spring bound up and the shells were not getting forced onto the lifter, but rather sliding around inside the magazine. I simply unscrewed the mag extension a little bit, heard the spring pop back into place, tighted the mag extenstion backed up, and was back into action. Perhaps I need some dry lube on this spring. Either way, this was the hardest hitting load of the day and perhaps the recoil had some effect.
The 2nd occured on about the 70th round while shooting the light birdshot. I pulled the trigger and heard a "CLICK". This was on the 2nd round from the magazine. I ejected the round from the chamber and noticed an indention on the primer. Curious, I re-loaded the shell, and on the second try it fired. I don't know if I should chalk this one up to a light primer strike or a bad primer on the shell.
Pictures:
Range Work
I started out at the range patterning my home defense load, Remington #1 buckshot at 10 yards.
I could tell it was shooting a little high and right, so i switched to slugs and backed off to 15 yards.
Adjusted the sights and got this:
Bottomed out the rear sight and came a little more left and got this:
Shot a few more buckshot patterns at 7 yards:
Overall I'm very happy with this shotgun and feel like it is reliable enough to be a home defense gun. The recoil reduction of the semi-auto is huge and the ghost ring sights are very nice.
Next I took it to a local range with a "shotgun pit". The ghost ring sights are very nice and intuitive. The recoil seemed about half of what I got from a comparable sized pump gun, which was very very nice, especially on slugs. I can't emphasize enough how low the recoil is by comprison to an 870. I also loved how easy it was to load shells into the magazine. They seemed to slide in much easier than the remingtons and berettas I've handled.
I fired:
20 Remington Slugger 1oz rifled slugs
25 Remington Express #1 16 pellet buckshot
5 Remington Express 00 9 pellet buckshot
50 Remington #7 1/2 game load birdshot
I always made sure the magazine was full before a string of shots, and also "ghost loaded" a round onto the lifter each time for a total of 9 shots per string. I never had a ghost-load related malfunction. There were no stove pipes or cyling-related malfunctions either, which I thought was great for a brand new gun. Even the light birdshot loads cycled well.
I had 2 malfunctions. The first occured on the 46th shot, during some 00 buckshot, about 4 rounds into the magazine. The magazine spring bound up and the shells were not getting forced onto the lifter, but rather sliding around inside the magazine. I simply unscrewed the mag extension a little bit, heard the spring pop back into place, tighted the mag extenstion backed up, and was back into action. Perhaps I need some dry lube on this spring. Either way, this was the hardest hitting load of the day and perhaps the recoil had some effect.
The 2nd occured on about the 70th round while shooting the light birdshot. I pulled the trigger and heard a "CLICK". This was on the 2nd round from the magazine. I ejected the round from the chamber and noticed an indention on the primer. Curious, I re-loaded the shell, and on the second try it fired. I don't know if I should chalk this one up to a light primer strike or a bad primer on the shell.
Pictures:
Range Work
I started out at the range patterning my home defense load, Remington #1 buckshot at 10 yards.
I could tell it was shooting a little high and right, so i switched to slugs and backed off to 15 yards.
Adjusted the sights and got this:
Bottomed out the rear sight and came a little more left and got this:
Shot a few more buckshot patterns at 7 yards:
Overall I'm very happy with this shotgun and feel like it is reliable enough to be a home defense gun. The recoil reduction of the semi-auto is huge and the ghost ring sights are very nice.
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