Ok. This is a 2 part issue:
First: I bought an old Mossberg shotgun for next to nothing with the intention of making it a project gun. When dry fired the action cannot be cycled without depressing the action release lever. When firing rounds, the action works properly about 60% of the time, but you need to depress the lever to cycle the action the other 40%. If anyone has a solution, I am all ears.
Second: While trying to troubleshoot this issue I looked online for exploded views of the trigger assembly and bolt assembly to see if I could spot what is wrong/missing/broken. In doing so, I noticed that they are both different than anything I can find online. The bottom of the receiver is stamped 500 AT, but the only thing that keeps coming up are the newer 500's. This gun was found in the back of a closet and if I had to guess it is from the 60's or 70's. Does anyone know when Mossberg changed its bolt configuration?
First: I bought an old Mossberg shotgun for next to nothing with the intention of making it a project gun. When dry fired the action cannot be cycled without depressing the action release lever. When firing rounds, the action works properly about 60% of the time, but you need to depress the lever to cycle the action the other 40%. If anyone has a solution, I am all ears.
Second: While trying to troubleshoot this issue I looked online for exploded views of the trigger assembly and bolt assembly to see if I could spot what is wrong/missing/broken. In doing so, I noticed that they are both different than anything I can find online. The bottom of the receiver is stamped 500 AT, but the only thing that keeps coming up are the newer 500's. This gun was found in the back of a closet and if I had to guess it is from the 60's or 70's. Does anyone know when Mossberg changed its bolt configuration?