Raccoon Ricky
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So, I've been loving my shotgun. I mean, I shoot 50 or 100 rounds through it in a day, and I feel like I've shot a freaking gun, and I haven't gone through too much ammo. It feels like it's cheaper than shooting my AK was, but maybe I'm just making more money now? Doesn't matter.
So I've got this mossberg 500, right? ATI ar-15 style telescoping stock, heat shield, 18.5" barrel. Simple and enjoyable to shoot.
So last time I went shooting, I finally ran some 3" magnum slugs through to see what they were like, right? I'm used to shooting .22s and 5.56, not twelve-gauge. But bam, put a hole through a paintcan at somewhere around 15-20 meters, split a 4 or 5" section of a punky cedar tree about 8" in diameter at the same distance. Ok, not bad for just a bead sight. Color me suddenly impressed by the shotgun.
Well, I handed her off to my buddy, he pushed a slug in the tube and racked it, and nothing happened. We check it out, and the elevator is stuck in the middle of the reciever, and racking will open the action or close it, but the elevator isn't elevating.
Now, I don't know if this happened when I fired the slugs, because I loaded them directly into the chamber from the side, rather than tube. So I wonder, did I just put it back together wrong last time I cleaned her? The over-all action seems simple and all, but it's not as foolproof as an AK in reassembly. It's not as easy as an M16. Maybe I didn't get the action bars to fit into the bolt carrier properly?
I field stripped her right then, put everything back in the right way, it worked fine, fired one more slug through her, then did about 50 rounds of birdy though her by the end of the day.
So I've got this mossberg 500, right? ATI ar-15 style telescoping stock, heat shield, 18.5" barrel. Simple and enjoyable to shoot.
So last time I went shooting, I finally ran some 3" magnum slugs through to see what they were like, right? I'm used to shooting .22s and 5.56, not twelve-gauge. But bam, put a hole through a paintcan at somewhere around 15-20 meters, split a 4 or 5" section of a punky cedar tree about 8" in diameter at the same distance. Ok, not bad for just a bead sight. Color me suddenly impressed by the shotgun.
Well, I handed her off to my buddy, he pushed a slug in the tube and racked it, and nothing happened. We check it out, and the elevator is stuck in the middle of the reciever, and racking will open the action or close it, but the elevator isn't elevating.
Now, I don't know if this happened when I fired the slugs, because I loaded them directly into the chamber from the side, rather than tube. So I wonder, did I just put it back together wrong last time I cleaned her? The over-all action seems simple and all, but it's not as foolproof as an AK in reassembly. It's not as easy as an M16. Maybe I didn't get the action bars to fit into the bolt carrier properly?
I field stripped her right then, put everything back in the right way, it worked fine, fired one more slug through her, then did about 50 rounds of birdy though her by the end of the day.