the rifleer
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I have a mossberg 500c, 20 gauge. I use it for shooting clays a lot and it has trouble ejecting shells.
When you pump it it is very smooth and always pulls the shell out of the chamber perfectly, but when it eject the shell, the shell hits the receiver, separates from the bolt head and remains inside the receiver, which results in a jam.
Sometimes it is a stove pipe style jam, other times the spent shell just sits on top of the next cartridge and when you pump it forward obviously it wont load because there is the new cartridge and the spent cartridge inside the receiver.
I am thinking maybe it is the ejector, but I wanted to ask and see what you guys think.
Before anyone suggests its the shells, I've tried Federal, Fiocchi, Estates, Winchester and Remington shells and it does it with all of them.
When you pump it it is very smooth and always pulls the shell out of the chamber perfectly, but when it eject the shell, the shell hits the receiver, separates from the bolt head and remains inside the receiver, which results in a jam.
Sometimes it is a stove pipe style jam, other times the spent shell just sits on top of the next cartridge and when you pump it forward obviously it wont load because there is the new cartridge and the spent cartridge inside the receiver.
I am thinking maybe it is the ejector, but I wanted to ask and see what you guys think.
Before anyone suggests its the shells, I've tried Federal, Fiocchi, Estates, Winchester and Remington shells and it does it with all of them.