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Hello,
The story,
I have had a mossberg 500 big 5 special for about 5 years or so. I have always wanted wood furniture on it, but never changed it out due to it not coming with a slide action tube, I have however put another ALL IN ONE forend on it since then and it has worked fine. I recently bought a 6 5/8 slide action tube with extension nut and bought a wood forend and buttstock, the buttstock went on with little problems and modification.
The problem,
With this new slide action tube it is not releasing a round when I rack the slide. Either the shell stopper or shell interrupter are not being triggered, that is my guess at least. Looking at the 'prongs' on the slide action tube vs the old 'all in one' forends they all appear to be a little different, but one of the ones that has worked looks very similar to the one that will not. I have tried bending the shell interrupter and stopper *at separate times* but that just has lead to more problems and I had to bend them back. I tried bending them just a little and though it seemed to release the shells it was very very loose. I ended up throwing back on the 'all in one' forend but would like to be able to switch it out, any suggestions on what may be the problem or a cure?
I would upload a photo but photobucket is currently down, so on a side note where is a good place to host images?
The story,
I have had a mossberg 500 big 5 special for about 5 years or so. I have always wanted wood furniture on it, but never changed it out due to it not coming with a slide action tube, I have however put another ALL IN ONE forend on it since then and it has worked fine. I recently bought a 6 5/8 slide action tube with extension nut and bought a wood forend and buttstock, the buttstock went on with little problems and modification.
The problem,
With this new slide action tube it is not releasing a round when I rack the slide. Either the shell stopper or shell interrupter are not being triggered, that is my guess at least. Looking at the 'prongs' on the slide action tube vs the old 'all in one' forends they all appear to be a little different, but one of the ones that has worked looks very similar to the one that will not. I have tried bending the shell interrupter and stopper *at separate times* but that just has lead to more problems and I had to bend them back. I tried bending them just a little and though it seemed to release the shells it was very very loose. I ended up throwing back on the 'all in one' forend but would like to be able to switch it out, any suggestions on what may be the problem or a cure?
I would upload a photo but photobucket is currently down, so on a side note where is a good place to host images?
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