Well, got the gun back and like a kid on Christmas, tore into the box...
Didn't even look it over and went right to disengage the safety and noticed an issue. Safety wouldn't fully disengage. Reengaged it and went to rack it...forend only went down about 1-2" and got stuck. Did it a few times to see if it was just working out the kinks and sure enough, something was wrong.
Did some looking and noticed a "pin" on the left side was still pressed inside the gun and was moving every time I went to manipulate the safety. Needless to say...my heart rate went up as anger mounted.
Put the gun down, finished out the day working from home and went back to it with a more sound mind a few hours later. After looking at it and doing some research, looked like one of the elevators was out of place, preventing the forend from getting the full throw. Took out the trigger assembly, put the elevator back in place, reinstalled the trigger assembly and sure enough, works like a charm.
In the end...I now have a functioning 590. Am I thrilled with my first experience with Mossberg? Not quite.
Won't have time to hit the range this weekend, but I need to get some cheap slugs anyway so I'm hoping to hit it next weekend with both my Sig P229 and the 590. We shall see how it goes.
Anyway...consider this chapter of my new 590 closed. As long as it cycles cleanly and doesn't give me any fits at the range, I'll consider it my official home defense gun.
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