I think I am the first person to break a 590A1

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BeefCake4000

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I purchased a Mossberg 590A1 last month from International Shooting Supply in Surrey. Great customer service. When I got home I dry fired it approximately 10 times. On January 12, 2010 I took it to the indoor shooting range in Coquitlam and went through approximately 75 birdshots. All of a sudden it stopped firing. When I get home I disassemble it. I could hear a small piece of metal moving around inside the firing mechanism. I reassembled the shotgun immediately. I will take the shotgun to the gunsmith this coming Tuesday. I will keep the forum members updated.:(
 
the sad thing is that you dry fired it 10 times, then it broke after 75 live firings, but people are going to read this and conclude that 'dry firing pump shotguns is bad, it breaks firing pins' :(

IMHO if it was damaged at all during those 10 dry firings, then the problem would have shown long before you went through 75 live shells. sounds like coincidence to me.

sorry about your shotgun. good news is a firing pin is only about $15.
 
Time machine...25 years ago.

My (then shiny brand-new) Mossberg500. Nice wood etc...my brother bought himself a "Maverick" from Can-Tire (for about half the price) very similar gun except in black plastic...

I warned him to NEVER dry fire...he did it twice in one afternoon, both mine and, his. Both broken...expensive [for him]. after the two were repaired he could have bought himself a second Maverick and, a box of shells (a few...remember 4$ sumpremes?)

Not too sure what the guru's will tell you, IMO don't dry fire anything...buy some snap caps. I've heard that centrefire rifles should be ok, my local gunsmith suggested otherwise...he insisted on snap caps in everything!
 
ive dry fired 870s plenty and never once broken a firing pin.
i have some rifles that were dry-fired thousands of times while improving my benchrest technique, not one was damaged.

if i ever do damage one, ill order a new firing pin for $15-25 and replace it myself. or in the case of my Remington 700s, ill use the opportunity to replace the pin with an aftermarket lightweight one for better lock times.
 
Is this a new gun? Used? Rusted?

What WAS the "small piece of metal"? IS the firing pin broken, or you don't know. You said you re-assembled it and taking it to the smith. Did you see a broken pin in there when disassembled? What did the broken part look like?

You're going to get everyones panties in a knot here just mentioning dry firing. Not to mention all those coming out to tell us they dry fired their gun a million times and ...

Dry firing misconceptions are overrated and boring to read about. :D Just don't do it with any of my guns.
 
...Thanks....too late

manbearpig said:
i also heard that if you cycle a bolt action without a round in it, your d**k falls off and you die :runaway:
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...well this explains a bit! LOL

re:dry firing...I know those that have and, truly believed all was well. I used to dry fire my cetrefire rifles...no snap caps. I was "educated" [screamed at enough times] about the issues. As quoted above, you can do what you want but, not with my equipment. Simple. To avoid this turning into larger scale and, futile debate consider this. Speed limit 80km posted. Some of us will go 80, some 100, some even more...some of the 100+crowd will defy odds and, live longer than the 80km crowd...odds are most wont.


I am curious what's actually broken in the mechanism too...when you find out, please share
 
camster said:
Simple. To avoid this turning into larger scale and, futile debate consider this. Speed limit 80km posted. Some of us will go 80, some 100, some even more...some of the 100+crowd will defy odds and, live longer than the 80km crowd...odds are most wont.
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I remember going 20km over the speed limit once. Super scary, im glad im still here. :rolleyes:
 
I think he means more instead of for.

Loads of duty 870 gets dry fired every day across the continent, don't think too many of them seen a snap cap before.
 
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