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- From: emory!wa4mei!chrise@gatech.edu (Chris England)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Mossberg 500 12 gauge
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.214508.4256@wa4mei>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:01:34 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Amateur Radio Gateway WA4MEI, Chamblee, GA
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- I just traded my Persuader for a handgun. I owned it for about 7 years.
- Here is some advice:
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- o Wear hearing protection. (especially if your
- barrel has a muzzle break. very loud!!)
-
- o Don't fire 3" mag/very high brass shells out of
- it. The "pin" that retains the trigger housing
- and components is locked in place by a small
- snap spring. That snap spring will disengage
- and get lost. This enables the "pin" to move
- freely from one side of the receiver to the other.
- The snap spring could not be replaced by my
- gunsmith, so they had to send the weapon back to
- Mossberg ~three to four months. This happened
- on two occasions; after the second time around,
- I figured that the high brass shells were causing
- far to much stress for that gun.
-
- o Clean as follows
- Bore brush - solvent patch a few times -
- dry patch until clean - light oil patch -
- dry patch.
-
- The action, and trigger components need only
- be cleaned on occassion. Use your judgement.
- Personally, I like a clean weapon. Military
- instinct I guess.
-
- o Overall opinion, not bad. I have owned shotguns
- for around 14 years now, most of them better
- quality ( I've owned a Rem 1100 for around 9 now ).
- But all in all sufficient to get the job done, and
- pretty fun in the mean time.
- --
- <> Chris England ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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