found a Mossberg 500atp!!!!!

[colostomyclown]

pics to come. my question is, does anyone know how hard it is to remove these rifle sights (i want a simple bead) and if i can't, how hard it is to track down an 18.5" parkerized barrel from mossberg? thanks. so psyched about this gun, metal trigger guard and safety, wood stock and forend, parker. finish, 6 shot capacity...suh-weet...

[flippycat]

congrats! I think you will find 18.5" barrels on backorder at most places!

[colostomyclown]

So I picked this gun up for 250. Oddly enough, the safety is the old variety that isn't as serrated as the new ones and it's metal. The trigger is a weird kind of plastic, harder than the new versions but just...different. 18.5" barrel, riflesights, no real blemishes on stock or forend. Cylinder bore, parkerized finish, Capacity 5+1, integrated sling swivels and MOSSBERG 500ATP stamped under receiver. I looked down the barrel and it was full of cobwebs - I don't think it'd ever been shot. It'd just SAT somewhere. Even had a lot of near-hardened cosmoline in the chamber when I opened her up. And if that wasn't enough, it came with 3 inch mag steel shot shells in the tube....they'd probably been there since the 80's or 90's or whatever timewarp this little tank fell into. It's quite stiff, even after a fieldstrip clean and lube, so I think it needs some trigger time. After cleaning barrel was SPOTLESS. It's also seeming to want to double feed, any idea what could cause that? Possibly a stiff spring from having shells in it for years? Also, I can't seem to find out how to take the mag spring out, or if I even can. It isn't like a 590 where the retainer just prys out. Anybody know? I would've done this deal in a heartbeat ten times over. What do you think?

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[colostomyclown]

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[colostomyclown]

having some feeding issues. It's liking to double-feed and not kick out properly from the mag tube at random intervals even after a fieldstrip clean and lube. Could be an extractor or cartridge stop issue...?

[hogdogs]

Possibly the shell stop. And you are racking the gun in an abrupt aggressive fashion?
In cleaning you did focus on the extractor and ejectors on the bolt?
Brent

[colostomyclown]

yeah. im hoping its not a bolt thing. i went over it pretty good. could be a ever so slightly bent shell stop maybe. not sure. gonna have my gunsmith go over it because im having a limbsaver installed anyway.