normal for excessive wear on magazine tube ?pics Included

[snake eyes]

Hello all,
I am a newbie to shotgunning, but wanted to know if it is normal to have wear on the magazine tube from the forearm racking, in terms of paint. I have fired less then 200 shells in my shotgun and noticed the paint rubbing off/coming off on the magazine tube with long striation marks from the travel of the forearm. I looked at the gallery section but could not see any wear like i see on my shotgun on other ppls pictures. Anyhow maybe something or maybe nothing ... just wanted to ask if this was normal.

Ya sorry forgot to add it's a Mossberg 590A1 shotgun...

 

[Speckfire]

Depends on the shottie. On my Maverick 88, it's normal.

 

[PaveHammer]

You'd have to provide photos of the wear in question, to compare it to what others would consider "Normal" wear.

I can't help out in this case, but I know that, generally, some thin wear, sometimes right through to the bare metal, is normal. You shouldn't be making gouges, though.

 

[snake eyes]

Thanks PaveHammer for the great advice of maybe takin pics of it, the wear is basically to almost the bare metal in some parts , there are some parts where grey parkerized paint in basically alomst gone and you can see the silver base color . There is no real gouging but suprised to me a lot of paint wear for such little shooting done.... i know that if i take it out a few more times it will eventually take all the grey off . Here are 4 pics from different angles of the gun . Tell me what you guys think. Is this normal ?
The front mag. tube with the forearm racked back :

Rest of the these 3 pics are Rear mag tube with forarm racked forward:

 

[Speckfire]

looks normal to me Snake !

 

[RePete]

Nothing out of the ordinary, all slide action shotguns will do this.

RePete.

 

[BIGREDD]

Stroke it like you own it.... no worries you won't wear it out

 

[snake eyes]

Thanks for putting my concerns to rest.... good to have veterans out there to answer these questions. Safe shooting all!

 

[sendero]

You should paint it with Arma-Coat, you will need more than 500 round to do that... Mine is near 800rnd now and even not half of that, also, a LOT painted for 3 duck hunt and no return yet...

Sendero

 

[hunterhenderson]

sssssss

my 590a1 is doin that too, nothing to worry about

HH

 

[badboybeeson]

ya may want want to put some oil on that gun too.
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