Hey I just took my new 590A1 SPX for the first shooting/break in and I encountered some problems. I'm hoping to get some feedback. Not sure if this was caused by my own errors or something else. And btw, I did clean all the factory gunk out using gunscrubber and then I CLP'd it.
I replaced my stock mag spring with a Wolff 590 8+1 spring. I also replaced my stock follower with a hi-viz S&J follower (which I know lowers the total capacity by 1, so 7+1).
The spring seems to bind up when I load it, it doesn't do it every time. Does it kind of randomly, but it does it a lot. I have to screw off the mag cap and pry off the spring retainer to fix it. Well when I took it shooting this happened and I didn't really have any tools with me to fix it, but I tried anyways. The problem is I lost the Wolff spring and spring retainer cause when I pried it off, it went flying into the woods lol. No idea where it went. I spent about 20 minutes looking for it and then I gave up.
Is the Wolff 590 spring compatible with the 590A1 SPX? Did I do something wrong to make it bind up, because I thought the whole point of getting the new stronger spring and new follower was to eliminate bind up issues. I still have the stock spring which I'm gonna use for the time being, and I guess I need to call up Mossberg to get a new spring retainer. I know this retainer isn't a necessary part, but I would still like to have one. Does anyone know of any retailers that sell this part? Or would I be better off trying to get one directly from Mossberg?
Any advice or suggestions are highly welcome!
Thanks,
Stephen
UPDATE:
I just installed my factory spring and factory follower and loading seems fine...no binding.
I'm wondering if I either installed the new parts wrong or if there is a defect somewhere.
UPDATE #2
Wow....I might just be retarded. The new aftermarket S&J follower I was using has a "spring guide". I guess this means that I actually need to make one end of the spring fit over this "guide" correct? Maybe this was the problem :/
Hopefully someone will confirm this.
I replaced my stock mag spring with a Wolff 590 8+1 spring. I also replaced my stock follower with a hi-viz S&J follower (which I know lowers the total capacity by 1, so 7+1).
The spring seems to bind up when I load it, it doesn't do it every time. Does it kind of randomly, but it does it a lot. I have to screw off the mag cap and pry off the spring retainer to fix it. Well when I took it shooting this happened and I didn't really have any tools with me to fix it, but I tried anyways. The problem is I lost the Wolff spring and spring retainer cause when I pried it off, it went flying into the woods lol. No idea where it went. I spent about 20 minutes looking for it and then I gave up.
Is the Wolff 590 spring compatible with the 590A1 SPX? Did I do something wrong to make it bind up, because I thought the whole point of getting the new stronger spring and new follower was to eliminate bind up issues. I still have the stock spring which I'm gonna use for the time being, and I guess I need to call up Mossberg to get a new spring retainer. I know this retainer isn't a necessary part, but I would still like to have one. Does anyone know of any retailers that sell this part? Or would I be better off trying to get one directly from Mossberg?
Any advice or suggestions are highly welcome!
Thanks,
Stephen
UPDATE:
I just installed my factory spring and factory follower and loading seems fine...no binding.
I'm wondering if I either installed the new parts wrong or if there is a defect somewhere.
UPDATE #2
Wow....I might just be retarded. The new aftermarket S&J follower I was using has a "spring guide". I guess this means that I actually need to make one end of the spring fit over this "guide" correct? Maybe this was the problem :/
Hopefully someone will confirm this.
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