So, I’m a new member with a new (never yet fired outside the factory) 930 SPX. I’d been looking at the Hornady RAPiD Shotgun Wall Lock, only to see, courtesy of a reviewer’s comment on Amazon, that it requires a locked-back bolt, because its breech-blocking post has to fit into the open breech. His position was that this lock is useless for an SPX home-defense scenario as it requires the gun to be unloaded.
To confirm that it was impossible to “lock back the bolt” if the magazine tube wasn’t empty, I played around with dummy rounds. What I discovered, at least for my specific SPX, was that I could do the following:
1) Load up the magazine tube
2) Pull back the charger to bring in a shell onto the elevator
3) Push down on the top of the shell thereby depressing the elevator ( as you might do in preparation for ghost loading)
4) Slowly release the charger
Doing the above causes the bolt to “hang up” with the breech open. Bumping the charger causes it to slam home, chambering the “floating” shell as expected.
My questions:
Do all SPXs, or a representative sample, operate this way?
Is this likely to be simply an anomaly that might go away as my shotgun is broken in, or would I be able to count on this behavior in the long term?
If one used this mode to secure the SPX in the wall lock, would it be problematic in the event the charger was bumped and the bolt attempted to close on the breech-blocking post, sitting in that position for a potentially long period? (If that did happen, obviously the bolt would close and the round would be chambered in the act of removing the gun from the lock)
To confirm that it was impossible to “lock back the bolt” if the magazine tube wasn’t empty, I played around with dummy rounds. What I discovered, at least for my specific SPX, was that I could do the following:
1) Load up the magazine tube
2) Pull back the charger to bring in a shell onto the elevator
3) Push down on the top of the shell thereby depressing the elevator ( as you might do in preparation for ghost loading)
4) Slowly release the charger
Doing the above causes the bolt to “hang up” with the breech open. Bumping the charger causes it to slam home, chambering the “floating” shell as expected.
My questions:
Do all SPXs, or a representative sample, operate this way?
Is this likely to be simply an anomaly that might go away as my shotgun is broken in, or would I be able to count on this behavior in the long term?
If one used this mode to secure the SPX in the wall lock, would it be problematic in the event the charger was bumped and the bolt attempted to close on the breech-blocking post, sitting in that position for a potentially long period? (If that did happen, obviously the bolt would close and the round would be chambered in the act of removing the gun from the lock)