Thread: Remington in a Spot of Bother

Tommygun-I get where you are coming from about the Mossberg. I have only had a couple of issues with mine-sort of minor but annoying and again the 870's may have problems albeit different.
Mossberg 500 can take 6 but you can put a mag extension on an 870 if you so desired. Cant on a 500. that's for the later 590 I believe.
I prefer safeties on the trigger guard just like my old browning A5. I had a Remington auto 243 (that was a piece of crap BTW) and the safety is the same as the rem shotguns. Its a push with the rear of the finger as the gun is shouldered (finger not on the trigger yet).
Like the old days of getting in the habit of pushing the safety on the SxS which came on every time the action was opened. Lost a few ducks that way when learning.
The safety on the mossy was quite stiff to the point on the bunny shoot spotlighting and using the safety frequently it wrecked the pad of my thumb.
The other issue I had was some ammo was quite sticky and would be a right pig to extract.
The extractors just wouldn't pull them out. One angry day when racking the slide multiple times to get one troublesome case out, the bolt coming back managed to break the two tabs on the front of the trigger group. Shot with this on and off for a few years and would get random hammer falls with no bang-you guessed it the trigger was falling at the front and the hammer wouldn't hit the firing pin consistently.
I then spent 10 years in Australia and all my firearms were left at a mates.
I got some of them back and managed to repair the trigger group and lighten the safety properly (actually tried years ago but not as good as id like) as well as get my old A5 up and running again. Back in the day I also ported the barrel and made a open thumbhole stock for the Mossberg-which made it easier to use with the mounted oeg sight and spotlight
Now I have my 500 reliable its a good thing and my only shotgun good for steel anyway-I'm not getting rid of it. the A5 only good for lead type shooting.
like I said if I had an 870 it may have had different issues. To each their own.