870 won't cycle
1So, ejecting a spent case, the pump gets hung up halfway and won't either close or eject the empty shell. Any ideas?
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The release tab is already depressed. Cleaned it last week. It did seem not to want to cycle snap caps intermittently, but this stuck halfway thing is new.atxgunguy wrote: Wed Jan 08, 2020 3:11 pm Dirt, crud, mung? When was the last time it was cleaned? What do you use to clean it? Does the slide release depress at all? Did you discover this while dry-firing with snapcaps or was this on the range? Did it go back BEFORE you ran into this issue?
....TL:DR, my friend's 870 is the stuff of Gremlin legends. I have pretty much seen it all with his.
Deep13 wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 6:55 am I found a bit of metal on the floor that looks a lot like a piece of the ejector spring.
How old was it?Deep13 wrote: Tue Jan 28, 2020 2:34 pm Yeah, and that tab is broken off the ejector. I'm waiting for a gunsmith to fix it. He needs to have a tool made to install the proprietary rivets. I'm thinking of selling it to get a Moss. 500 instead. The 500's ejector screws in.
Price?Deep13 wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2020 5:26 pm Remington hasn't gotten to it yet. It's a 2013 model. No warranty and round trip it will cost $50 in shipping. Ugh. I guess a broken extractor is rare, but if it happens again, I'm back to square one. It's just a little tab of metal, presumably steel, but who knows with Freedom Group.
The local shop has a used 500 combo with slug and field barrels. They also have a $90 security barrel separately. One gun to rule them all.
That's the way I'd go personally. You might go a lifetime without having another extractor break on you, most people do, but no gun should be that damn hard to work on that you have to go to a gunsmith to replace a common part, let alone need custom built tools. In the days of being able to build Polymer80 Glocks and ARs at home with $100 worth of commonly available tools, there's just no excuse for a modern firearm to be that unserviceable to the user.Deep13 wrote:Remington hasn't gotten to it yet. It's a 2013 model. No warranty and round trip it will cost $50 in shipping. Ugh. I guess a broken extractor is rare, but if it happens again, I'm back to square one. It's just a little tab of metal, presumably steel, but who knows with Freedom Group.
The local shop has a used 500 combo with slug and field barrels. They also have a $90 security barrel separately. One gun to rule them all.
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