Rodburner
20g
Never done a gun related review before. (Liberal snowflake and all that). Many of us 590 owners use the Opsol adapter so that we may use the various brand mini shells at the expense of being able to pop in a standard shell occasionally in the heat of battle. The new 590S addresses this from the factory, and now, Defender Tactical feeds the need for the rest of us. They list this little piece for $35, with a new magazine follower, but when I ordered mine 4 days ago it was $25 and free shipping. And as mentioned, I ain’t no gun mechanic, but after watching the 2 minute video on their site, I had both pieces installed and operational in about 5 minutes. I verified the popper was empty, unscrewed the cross bolt holding in the trigger assembly ( CT laser saddle replaces the push pin with a corby? bolt), slipped the little plastic adapter into the slots in the receiver, put the trigger back in, made sure it wasn’t locked up and put the pin back in. The web site mentions that the new red follower doesn’t HAVE to be used, so I tried it without. I pushed an Aguila mini buck in the tube followed by a mini slug,then a Nobel Sport 00, in the standard 2.75”, a couple more mini’s and another 00. I cycled them through the shockwave, without firing them, (living room,duh..) Everything worked as intended, EXCEPT, each time, the last mini shell, the first one pushed into the mag tube, would stand up in the receiver and fail to load. So, out came the stock follower and in went the new red anodized follower with its slightly different shape. Problem solved. Every shell no matter the length went right through, bing, bang, boom. All in all, I have to say that this little extra bit of versatility is gonna please a lot of existing 590 owners…
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