will my mossberg shoot? help tonight

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i got used 500a model ,i have to wait till 2morrow to try shooting it. but when i dry fire it the hammer hitting the firing pin is no where near as hard as i thought it would be......it sounds like a red rider bb gun shooting a b.b.
do you think it will still fire?

when i cleaned it there was alot of aluminum? shavings ......it looked kinda like lead all gritted up....i dont know if that got anything to do with it....it just makes me think it has been shot alot and not cleaned...
 
it just makes me think it has been shot alot and not cleaned...
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Shotguns are like .22 rimfires where they are shot a lot and cleaned a little. As the others have said, wait until you take it out to the range before you worry.
 
haha thanks i will just go try it out......i guess its just me....im used to my wasr 10, it is very loud when the hammer hits the firing pin........


i will shoot tomorrow and see how it does...if it does not shoot i will come back....

i cant wait :banghead:
 
my mossberg has metal shaving in the reciever to after i cycle it like 5 times there wil lbe some more after i clean it.
 
How many times have you cycled the action, cleaned out the "metal shavings," then cycled it again only to generate more metal shavings?

Also, where are the metal shavings? In the bore?
 
my gun has about 100 rounds through it and there will always be more shaving no matter how many times i clean it out. i use clp so thats not the problem. it looks like aluminum from the receiver walls
 
The metal quits shaving after a bit of shooting. If you open the action, you can see where the wear is on the receiver where the bolt works back and forth. My 500 is 20 years old and still going strong, my number one duck gun. No more shavings, stopped after break in and it has a very slick action now, not stiff like it was when it was new. All it's ever seen is heavy steel waterfowl loads. I fed it almost exclusively with 3" steel until the new fast steel came out. Now, it shoots mostly 2 3/4" Winchester Xpert hi speed 3s or 2s. I can't always get 3s down here, so I buy 2s now and then, picked up 3 boxes at Walmart the other day for $8.49 a box and the 2 3/4" feeds in my 2 3/4" only Winchester.

My son-in-law picked up a camo 835 Ultimag the other day for $200. He's had the hots for a waterfowl gun. He has a Winchester 1300, but it's wood and blued steel and he doesn't wanna trash it cause is dad gave it to him. I'm going to have to get him to the range with it, buy some clays. He hasn't learned to hit well, yet. But, that's another story.

I think you'll be impressed with the 500, great guns for the money. I love the ergos of 'em. They balance forward and are fairly light for a pump gun which makes 'em fairly quick to the shoulder, no side by side, but as pump guns go, it handles really quick, yet swings smooth. I had to shim mine to fit, though, was lacking in drop at comb. Now, it fits wonderfully with the shimming and is much more fun to shoot.
 
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well i shot it today, about 8 times without a problem. and i hit 7 out of 8 skeets......i think i would of done better if i had someone throw them for me. i think the packing and everything was hitting the skeets because i couldn't throw the skeets far. they would decentigrate?? is $175 a good price for it, iam pretty sure it is 15 years old..

i almost forgot, is it normal for a primer to look like this(very small dent in the primer?)
 

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Don't mean to knock ineed's photo but I think the indent is deeper than they look.With the sharper edges missing it is hard to tell depth. If it fired 8 out of 8 I would say you're good to go, if you start having misfires then I would check it out closer.

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Clean it real well, and oil it. If you don't have a manual you can most likely download one from Mossberg -- off their web site. You should always have a manual for a gun you might want to disassemble to thoroughly clean, or find a web site that tells you just how it comes apart and goes back together.

Don't do what a close friend of mine did once, took his entire double barrel 12 gauge completely apart, down to every tiny screw, pin, spring, you name it.

Then he called me because he should have realized he would never get it together after taking it COMPLETELY apart.

Long story short, in carefully studying every single part, I was able to finally see how parts had worn against one another, then figured the order of parts to go together and in about three hours, I had that entire gun COMPLETELY ASSEMBLED!

When I was in high school we had these various Federal Tests. My aptitide on Mechanical Reasoning was in the highest one percentile. They told me that in the entire US, there were only 30 students who did better than me when it came to MECHANICAL REASONING!

That makes up for the math, which I hated. :uhoh:
 
It *does* look a little light to me, but if you're hitting 100%, don't worry about it. A good spring will be nice and crisp and fairly loud, though. The point to care is when it stops firing 100%.

If you do start having misfires later on, just buy a new main spring and replace it. Your Mossy is probably the easiest gun there is to replace one, too. Simply pull the trigger group from the gun. DON'T do this without watching one of the youtube.com videos on field stripping a Mossberg first! Uncock the hammer by holding the hammer as you pull the trigger and let it go all the way angled forward gently. Next, use a punch or a nail to punch out the rearmost pin in the trigger group. It's the shortest one in the trigger assembly, all the way at the back. You can see the mainspring if you look into that little hole at the back of the trigger group. The mainspring and guide rod will fall out into your hand. Replace the guide rod, replace the new spring, replace the pin. Takes less than two minutes and that's even unpacking the new spring from the box.

A good method to judge your mainspring is to MAKE SURE THE GUN IS EMPTY, cock it and then *slowly* pull the trigger til it dry fires. Do that a few times. If the dry fire/hammer hit is the same old nice and solid, crisp "crack", the mainspring is good. If it's going bad from use, you'll often hear a dull and sickening "thud" as the sear hits and sticks on the hammer rebound/hammer block notch on the hammer. If you can get it to hit on the hammer block notch by pulling the trigger, the spring is going bad and isn't moving nearly as fast as it should. If you can do it once, try not to do it any more. It's hard on the sear. Like I said, though, the spring is a nothing repair. It's a $5 spring and two minutes and it'll last you another ten years of hard use.

You got a great gun INM. There's pretty much nothing on it that will go bad and nothing that can't be repaired/replaced on your kitchen table inside a few minutes if it does. It'll still be shooting after you and I are gone.

richard
 
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Good cleaning

Be sure and thoroughly clean the bolt and the firing pin chamber, firing pin, and firing pin spring. I had an old Mossberg 500 that was so old it only had one action bar. But it shot and shot and shot. It was the first gun that was actually MINE. My dad paid $50.00 for it. I killed a lot of Dove, rabbits and ducks with it. I got stupid and slicked it up, put it in a tactical stock and sold it. I wish I could get it back.
 
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