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    500 failure to cycle

    https://imgur.com/ADQODer
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    500 failure to cycle

    [/IMG] Just spent an incredibly frustrating few hours trying to get my 500 to cycle, after I took it apart to clean it. Could have done it a hundred times in the past with no problems, but this time the bolt would only go back half way without stopping solid. After about 20 times taking it...
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    500 stored cocked or de cocked?

    It's hard to imagine owning a 500 and never having "dry fired" it. Mine is stored with 3 in the magazine (5 shot model) to relieve the mag spring a little, breech empty and dry fired.
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    Is there an acceptable misfire % for the 500?

    Any misfire I ever had was either due to the brand of cartridge, or because I had short stroked it. The firing pin spring is really strong. When pressing it with your finger, you'd wonder how the hammer manages to push the pin forward with enough force to dent the primer at all.
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    Hi from the UK

    I get comments like " where's your stocking mask?" and "what bank are you practicing for next?" :D
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    Hi from the UK

    Welcome, from Southern Ireland. How are you getting on at the clays? Winding up the Perazzi, Caeser Guerini, Beretta and Miroku boys I hope! :D
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    Mossberg 500 Pump Action Photo Gallery

    Ah, pistols only allowed here for target competition. And you need to be a member of a range/club at that, unfortunately. Have a Beretta 391 Urika autoloader and a Tikka in .223 as well, and the wife just bought a 20 bore o/u for clays. Remember each gun here has a separate licence, which is...
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    Mossberg Owners in the UK?

    Hi Thrower, a 500 owner here. From Cavan in Rep. of Ireland.
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    Hello from England

    No problem in the UK. https://www.sportsmanguncentre.co.uk/reloading-ammunition
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    Anyone else using the 88 for skeet?

    Been using my 500 for trap since last September. Great fun, especially because you are almost guaranteed to be the only person there with a pump. Here in Ireland, "Sporting" is a very popular clay bird discipline. Targets can be crossing left to right, right to left, going away, coming at...
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    Mossberg 500 Pump Action Troubleshooting

    Trying my 500, the unfired cartridge would have to be shorter than 1.75 inches long for it to drop through the shell lifter like that.
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    C-LECT Choke Question

    The hole in the barrel doesn't matter, as long as the threads of the bead aren't projecting into the bore. Consider ported barrels, 16 holes bored into the barrel, and no ill effects.
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    Mossberg 500 Pump Action Photo Gallery

    My 500. What Mossberg called a "Crown Grade" back in 1997. 28" barrel, vented bead, barrel porting, choke tubes, gold trigger etc.
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    How hard is it to access mag spring on 500?

    Possibly a gradual slippage in tolerance in the machine tools used to cut the threads in the reciever or mag tube, causing tubes to loosen. And Loctite was a cheaper option than scrapping huge numbers of components. Just my guess.
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