I know it is an odd comparison as one is a pump and one is a semi, but my question is about reliability. How does the 930 hold up? I am asking because I am thinking of selling an 870 to get the extra cash for a 930, but don't want to regret it. I would be using it for hunting so a jam could mean missing out on dinner!
rem 870 vs mossberg 930
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Might as well be comparing a Cooey 88 to a 930.
I have both. In a "SHTF" scenario the 930 is the one I'm taking. The 870 doesn't compare when it comes to fire power. The all steel receiver talk doesn't matter to
Me.
I can load the 930 faster and of course dump it.
I can follow through shots better with the 930.
The 930 will cycle any crap I put through it.
The 870 can legally hold more ammo and has more common accessories.
Right on brutha!.
The 930 would be my reach for gun each and every time should a need arise.
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Some 930s have a tendency to not cycle light loads fresh out of the box. Mine was such an example, but a few rounds of magnum slugs takes care of that problem. Nary a hiccup anymore.
The 930 would be my reach for gun each and every time should a need arise.
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Some 930s have a tendency to not cycle light loads fresh out of the box. Mine was such an example, but a few rounds of magnum slugs takes care of that problem. Nary a hiccup anymore.
Funny, I am considering my first shotgun, and have long considered buying a 870 pump. But am curious about a semi too, and given my budget, I had been looking into the 930 (just a half hour before finding this thread!) So I hope to hear more opinions and reviews of these guns here. Thanks for reading my mind OP!
Technology Direct
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All these threads on the 930 are killing me! We really need to get the SPX here.
The 930 has very limited selection of buttstocks (only one other I know of by Choate)
Because it has that long buffer tube in the rear, noone wants to make one.
As for jams, since "breaking it in" I haven't had a single failure with Wally mart #4 loads or Range and Field #7.5.
Because it has that long buffer tube in the rear, noone wants to make one.
As for jams, since "breaking it in" I haven't had a single failure with Wally mart #4 loads or Range and Field #7.5.
9 Reasons to proceed back the way you came.
Remington 870 Wingmaster, Synthetic Remington Stock, 18.5" barrel, Remington Buttstock Shell Holder, 8+1 shot Mag Extension, Federal #8 Target Load "Cure for Cancer" Shells
...Yeah, my feet are ugly.
Remington 870 Wingmaster, Synthetic Remington Stock, 18.5" barrel, Remington Buttstock Shell Holder, 8+1 shot Mag Extension, Federal #8 Target Load "Cure for Cancer" Shells
...Yeah, my feet are ugly.
Cools shells, no comments about the feet
It's a little known fact, but you can ghost load the 930 and that gives you 8 rounds of 2 3/4 shells.
Soooo only one reason to go back
You can only ghost load 7, and its kinda hard to do in a hurry.
For me, if it hits the fan, Im grabbing the 870.
GC
Uhhh.....sorry guys...."ghost load"?????
Dexter Morgan
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" Uhhh.....sorry guys...."ghost load"????? "
Ghost load is having an extra round basically in the feed hole, on top of the feed lifter, but not actually inside the magazine. With one round also in the barrel, it gives you a 5 + 1 + 1 (7 total) shots to start out with.
Ghost load is having an extra round basically in the feed hole, on top of the feed lifter, but not actually inside the magazine. With one round also in the barrel, it gives you a 5 + 1 + 1 (7 total) shots to start out with.
How does one chamber? Fire, pump to eject.....jam????
On top of the "Feed Lifter"?
You mean the elevator? I'm calling MALARKY as that would most certainly jam upon operating the pump after the first shot.
I don't have much experience with the 930 but, in the 870 that would 100% jam after the first shot.
The most you could do is tube capacity plus one in the chamber which in the case of my 870 is 8+1.
TransAm1991
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The 930 from what I've read/been told is a great shotgun, that being said, I'd still grab my 870, I just trust it more. We'll see if my decision changes when my 930 arrives at the door, and I can put 100 rounds down range without a hiccup!
Thats what most would think, but in fact it is true.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpyNoCnO4B4
Keep in mind he is in the US with a 7 rnd tube.
The 930(and Benelli M4 for that matter) will not load from the tube with a shell on the lifter.
The one thing that I don't like about the 930 is if you accidently bang/depress the bolt/mag release it will dump 2 shells on the lifter jamming it pretty good. I know the solution is NOT to hit it, but if it can happen it probably will.
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