Hi, quick question for everyone.
I recently bought a new 590A1 Marinecote - took it to my club Sunday and cycled some Score low recoil slugs on it. Previous to this, when I was at home, to check function, I ran six snap caps through it just to check out cycling, after initial inspection. Seemed OK.
I noticed after the first few shots, the fore end was very very stiff and and it wouldn't cycle (or so it seemed). The action release was already depressed and was spongy. The lifter was down but I was able to start manually releasing shells from the tube (using the little side springy end of the bar) while I was trying to figure out why the action was seemingly jammed. My friend was there and saw it and thought it was weird. Eventually with a very, very violent pull of the fore end (not great for my poor injured shoulder), it ejected the spent hull.
My friend and I looked at it and he said to me, did you take this thing apart and oil and lube it? I said no. I probably should have, but a bad habit I have for new guns is to visually inspect everything and only take it apart if there is an excessive amount of factory grease on it or that I noticed something awry. He suspected that all the parts were super dry and I need to go home and lube it.
I previously had a 590 Shockwave SPX and I never cleaned / lubed it out of the box since new and it cycled fine in the short lifetime that I had it and shot it.
I ended up taking the 590A1 apart last night - putting it back together was more of a pain, but I got it done - I super lubed the thing to the point where it was almost dripping Hoppes 9. Every piece that I removed aside from the magazine spring, follower and mag cap, I lubed - this is primarily action bars, bolt, the metal thing that sits on top of the bolt and connects with the fore end action bars, the lifter, those two goofy side bars, etc. Even a bit on the trigger assembly. I ran the same snap caps through it at home and it didn't seem like it was any smoother and in some cases, I noticed it was stiffer on some cycles.
Is this just a matter of use and continued cycling to loosen everything up? If it's the case, I can just run the fore end like a physio exercise daily. I am surprised if the lube ended up being the issue since for the 590 Shockwave, I never had these problems.
I recently bought a new 590A1 Marinecote - took it to my club Sunday and cycled some Score low recoil slugs on it. Previous to this, when I was at home, to check function, I ran six snap caps through it just to check out cycling, after initial inspection. Seemed OK.
I noticed after the first few shots, the fore end was very very stiff and and it wouldn't cycle (or so it seemed). The action release was already depressed and was spongy. The lifter was down but I was able to start manually releasing shells from the tube (using the little side springy end of the bar) while I was trying to figure out why the action was seemingly jammed. My friend was there and saw it and thought it was weird. Eventually with a very, very violent pull of the fore end (not great for my poor injured shoulder), it ejected the spent hull.
My friend and I looked at it and he said to me, did you take this thing apart and oil and lube it? I said no. I probably should have, but a bad habit I have for new guns is to visually inspect everything and only take it apart if there is an excessive amount of factory grease on it or that I noticed something awry. He suspected that all the parts were super dry and I need to go home and lube it.
I previously had a 590 Shockwave SPX and I never cleaned / lubed it out of the box since new and it cycled fine in the short lifetime that I had it and shot it.
I ended up taking the 590A1 apart last night - putting it back together was more of a pain, but I got it done - I super lubed the thing to the point where it was almost dripping Hoppes 9. Every piece that I removed aside from the magazine spring, follower and mag cap, I lubed - this is primarily action bars, bolt, the metal thing that sits on top of the bolt and connects with the fore end action bars, the lifter, those two goofy side bars, etc. Even a bit on the trigger assembly. I ran the same snap caps through it at home and it didn't seem like it was any smoother and in some cases, I noticed it was stiffer on some cycles.
Is this just a matter of use and continued cycling to loosen everything up? If it's the case, I can just run the fore end like a physio exercise daily. I am surprised if the lube ended up being the issue since for the 590 Shockwave, I never had these problems.
