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I just got my first Mossberg, it was a 930 SPX. I ordered it brand new, and this morning I disassembled it for a good cleaning, since I new they had a reputation for coming dirty.
I have two questions on things I noticed. The first one, was that I noticed the bolt head had a ghost mark of a shot shell indicating that it had been shot at least once, and there seemed to be significant wear. I am aware that testing does occur, but I was just worried I had been sold a pre-owned rather then a new firearm. What do you think?
The 2nd question is that prior to the first take down, and after the reassembly, I performed a function test with snap caps, and noticed (before and after) that the snap caps would fail to eject 1 or 2 times out of the 7. Is this a common issue with snap caps or could it be the 930 itself, and the ejector?
I have not had a chance to take it out and run a good amount of rounds through it yet, I just wanted to get some opinions. I have previous experience with a remington 870p pump, and with the manual ejection, there was no issues with snap caps (or normal shells).
Thanks for any insight, and apologize for any newbish questions.
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*update* I added picture attachments
1st image shows, what to me seems like excessive wear for a new shotgun within the chamber (actually the barrel insertion) where the left side of the bolt/slide assembly rub against.
2nd image shows scratching just to the right of where the piston is housed.
3rd image (I apologize for the glare) actually shows ghost marks of some winchester shell. I can actually see the WIN markings.
4th image is again of the bolt, this time it is of the top, and shows excessive wear for a new shotgun (in my opinion).
And the 5th and last image shows the left side of the bolt and slide assembly that shows wear on the rear corner, and may have caused the wear on the barrel insertion section within the chamber.
This shotgun has never had a round through it from me, and If you could give your opinion if you think this is excessive for a "new" shotgun given any testing mossberg may do.
As a side note, look at image 2, and notice the spacer is not the normal black as I have seen in these mossberg autoloaders.
I have two questions on things I noticed. The first one, was that I noticed the bolt head had a ghost mark of a shot shell indicating that it had been shot at least once, and there seemed to be significant wear. I am aware that testing does occur, but I was just worried I had been sold a pre-owned rather then a new firearm. What do you think?
The 2nd question is that prior to the first take down, and after the reassembly, I performed a function test with snap caps, and noticed (before and after) that the snap caps would fail to eject 1 or 2 times out of the 7. Is this a common issue with snap caps or could it be the 930 itself, and the ejector?
I have not had a chance to take it out and run a good amount of rounds through it yet, I just wanted to get some opinions. I have previous experience with a remington 870p pump, and with the manual ejection, there was no issues with snap caps (or normal shells).
Thanks for any insight, and apologize for any newbish questions.
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*update* I added picture attachments
1st image shows, what to me seems like excessive wear for a new shotgun within the chamber (actually the barrel insertion) where the left side of the bolt/slide assembly rub against.
2nd image shows scratching just to the right of where the piston is housed.
3rd image (I apologize for the glare) actually shows ghost marks of some winchester shell. I can actually see the WIN markings.
4th image is again of the bolt, this time it is of the top, and shows excessive wear for a new shotgun (in my opinion).
And the 5th and last image shows the left side of the bolt and slide assembly that shows wear on the rear corner, and may have caused the wear on the barrel insertion section within the chamber.
This shotgun has never had a round through it from me, and If you could give your opinion if you think this is excessive for a "new" shotgun given any testing mossberg may do.
As a side note, look at image 2, and notice the spacer is not the normal black as I have seen in these mossberg autoloaders.
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