I have an SLP Mark One that just recently developed some problems with the magazine tube. Rounds don't seem to go into the tube smoothly, I can't quite get the eighth (2 3/4") shell into the tube - it goes in up to the rim but no farther - and rounds do not feed from the tube. Rounds extract from the chamber normally, and when I drop a shell into the ejection port and hit the bolt release the round feeds flawlessly into the chamber. But when I eject that chambered round, the next round in the mag tube just sits there and won't exit the magazine.
I spoke with a FN rep to see if there was some known issue he could help me with. He suggested that hand cycling may not be vigorous enough to cause the next round to feed, compared to the force of actually firing the gun. But in the past, rounds have always come out of the tube when I hand cycled with no problem, until now, so there has been some sort of change. He also suggested that it might be an ammo issue but this problem persists with several different varieties of ammo, and with ammo that has never been cycled through the gun before, and freshly loaded ammo. It happens no matter what I put in the shotgun.
Anyone else have a similar issue? If so, how was it resolved? Theories? Opinions? Guesses or speculations?
I spoke with a FN rep to see if there was some known issue he could help me with. He suggested that hand cycling may not be vigorous enough to cause the next round to feed, compared to the force of actually firing the gun. But in the past, rounds have always come out of the tube when I hand cycled with no problem, until now, so there has been some sort of change. He also suggested that it might be an ammo issue but this problem persists with several different varieties of ammo, and with ammo that has never been cycled through the gun before, and freshly loaded ammo. It happens no matter what I put in the shotgun.
Anyone else have a similar issue? If so, how was it resolved? Theories? Opinions? Guesses or speculations?