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

I somehow managed to reverse the tang safety on mine... *shrugs* doesn't really make it broken but its about as close as I've gotten to breaking anything on my Mossberg.

This is the first time I've ever heard of one breaking.
 
one time at band camp ... i broke a shotgun .
Come on guys, you cant damage a moden shotgun by dry fireing .
Somthing else has to be wrong with it.
Haveing said that the Mav 88 or mossy 500 are cheap off shore shotgun.
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I have fired my 590 SP over 7,000 shells the first year I had it. Never once have I ever cleaned it past taking the barrel off and giving it a scrub. The only problem I have ever had with it was after market products breaking off (Side saddle, swivel bolt.) Then again, I have never purposely dry fired it. :rollseyes:

When I shake my 590 SP, something raddles inside, no idea what it is, i'll worry about it when the time comes. I have replacement parts for almost every firearm I own, again i'm not worried.
 
Its a mil-spec shotgun.

Military weapons are dry fired as much as they are fired, practicing drills, clearing off the range. etc.

Among other mistreatment.

Maybe you gotta be more aggressive with the gun..
These shotguns: mossy 590a1, rem 870, win 1300: are work horses designed to be used and abused. Ive put thousands of shells thru my 870, no problem.. i'm sure if i had a mossy 590a1 I would do the same.

Everyone should quit being a bunch of safety weiners. i would have stripped cleaned it and reassembled and attempted to fire. the worst thing that could happen is it doesnt shoot.. check the primer. see if it hits. If not struck take it back to the store.
 
It's not like God is making these guns guys. Imperfections from the factory can happen and therefore dry firing could have weakened things.

Just because you cut 89 cords of a hang man's rope doesn't mean that the last one is going to break immediately. You might be able to toss a couple of bodies before it finally gives in. It's a tool, and as far as I know there haven't been any tools that have been 100% unbreakable.

s**t happens, and it just so happened that this time it happened to Mossberg. Which we all know is pretty rare in the shotgun department.
 
Update: I got my shotgun back from International Shooting Supply on February 23. Turns out it was a broken firing pin. I only have to pay the shipping fee (appox $ 35 CAD). I went to the range again tonight and fired 75 rounds of bird shot with no problem. But it's going to take some time and ALOT of rounds before I totally trust any Mossberg products again.
 
As said by another here, snap caps are handy for this, and far cheaper than spare firing pins too. I don't dry fire my firearms, unless I have snap caps. Personal preferance. Makes no sense to me, that firing pin, by it's design is meant to be 'cushioned' by a primed brass casing. With an empty chamber, all that steel on steel energy, has to be transmitted somewhere.
My two cents.......
 
Have you guys ever seen the firing pin on a 590? The pin pretty big and is spring loaded; the spring dampens the energy from the hammer. Dry firing didn't break it. It might not be a firing pin issue at all, something might have failed in the trigger group allowing the hammer to follow the bolt. Guns are like any other piece of equipment. They are made to be used, when they fail, and sometimes they do, all you need to do is replace the failed part to get back in business. There is nothing wrong with the 590 design, and it is an easy gun to replace parts on. At least the failure occurred at the range and not in the field.
 
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