Hey all,
I didn't have a camera to document the actual happenings, so I'll have to describe it. I picked up a 590A1 brand new 1 year ago and it perhaps has 300 target load and 30 slugs through it, as of this afternoon.
We had two clay launchers and were garbeurating the last of the shells and clays (dubbed the 'Lightning Round'). I had loaded up 8 and was having a grand old time when clank. The entire trigger assembly fell out in my hand! After calling a cold range, the bolt slide and action slide bars (if I'm looking at the schematics correctly for the right terminology) fell out of the gaping hole in the underside where the trigger assembly used to be. The bolt held a live round from the last rack, so I removed that and much cussing ensued. Near as I can tell, nothing was broken or bent.
Two of the three pins that run into the receiver were gone. We found one in the dirt but the other is a goner. We happened to have a magnet handy and just could not find the second (perhaps it had slid out earlier in the day). I know that everything was intact when we started the day and near as I can tell, the two pins fell out first then the trigger assembly fell out in my hand on the backside of racking a fresh round into the chamber.
To say the least, I was surprised and more than a little PO'd. This shotgun should not be falling apart under moderate use. Secondly, I had lubed the bolt a little, just to be smooth enough, but I would never suspect it would be enough to allow the pins to slip loose. And, how would they (both of them ffs) slide their little asses out the receiver anyways.
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?? Maybe I'm not seeing the problem here, and would appreciate all your input. Maybe this is a maintenance issue that I didn't know about.
Thanks all.
S
I didn't have a camera to document the actual happenings, so I'll have to describe it. I picked up a 590A1 brand new 1 year ago and it perhaps has 300 target load and 30 slugs through it, as of this afternoon.
We had two clay launchers and were garbeurating the last of the shells and clays (dubbed the 'Lightning Round'). I had loaded up 8 and was having a grand old time when clank. The entire trigger assembly fell out in my hand! After calling a cold range, the bolt slide and action slide bars (if I'm looking at the schematics correctly for the right terminology) fell out of the gaping hole in the underside where the trigger assembly used to be. The bolt held a live round from the last rack, so I removed that and much cussing ensued. Near as I can tell, nothing was broken or bent.
Two of the three pins that run into the receiver were gone. We found one in the dirt but the other is a goner. We happened to have a magnet handy and just could not find the second (perhaps it had slid out earlier in the day). I know that everything was intact when we started the day and near as I can tell, the two pins fell out first then the trigger assembly fell out in my hand on the backside of racking a fresh round into the chamber.
To say the least, I was surprised and more than a little PO'd. This shotgun should not be falling apart under moderate use. Secondly, I had lubed the bolt a little, just to be smooth enough, but I would never suspect it would be enough to allow the pins to slip loose. And, how would they (both of them ffs) slide their little asses out the receiver anyways.
Has anyone else ever seen anything like this?? Maybe I'm not seeing the problem here, and would appreciate all your input. Maybe this is a maintenance issue that I didn't know about.
Thanks all.
S
