BigRedBowtie
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I have a Mossberg 835 that is about 6 years old. It is my go-to gun. I use it for duck, pheasant, deer, geese, HD, sporting clays, black bear and skeet. It gets used- a lot.
Last night on the skeet field, it chucked a shell out the bottom when I cycled the action on a double. Broke the low bird from station 6, then pumped and went after the high bird, only to get "the loudest *click* in the world." I wasn't paying particular attention to how I pumped it, but when you're shooting skeet with a pumpgun, you're not exactly paying real close attention to *how* you cycled the action, just that you do it ASAP.
What could cause this type of mis-feed? The empty was thrown from the gun, so I don't *think* that I short-stroked it. Thinking about it, it seems that the elevator must have never lowered to direct the fresh shell from the magazine to the chamber. It didn't happen again last night, but it has happened before, although I don't remember the circumstances of the earlier happenings.
any suggestions?
Last night on the skeet field, it chucked a shell out the bottom when I cycled the action on a double. Broke the low bird from station 6, then pumped and went after the high bird, only to get "the loudest *click* in the world." I wasn't paying particular attention to how I pumped it, but when you're shooting skeet with a pumpgun, you're not exactly paying real close attention to *how* you cycled the action, just that you do it ASAP.
What could cause this type of mis-feed? The empty was thrown from the gun, so I don't *think* that I short-stroked it. Thinking about it, it seems that the elevator must have never lowered to direct the fresh shell from the magazine to the chamber. It didn't happen again last night, but it has happened before, although I don't remember the circumstances of the earlier happenings.
any suggestions?