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Just sharing my experience...
Attended a local 3-gun course yesterday and for the first time encountered what many Mossberg 930 JM Pro owners already know - reliability problems; specifically, failure to eject the shell.
Not only did it fail to eject, it jammed the shell back up into the chamber making removal incredibly difficult. This happened 3 times in a row, each time requiring me to eventually pry the shell casing out with a screwdriver (yeah, 3x -- I'm a slow learner or something). This video captures the problem perfectly:
I purchased this shotty nearly 2 years ago specifically for 3-gun use. I don't have a lot of bandwidth for matches these days, so spending a lot of money on specific use shotgun wasn't really appealing. An opportunity to purchase this came up at a price that, on the surface, made it way too good to pass up. It has a lot of great features and when it works, it's really pretty terrific - huge bang for my buck (literally). The catch is...when it works.
Last fall was the first time I had an opportunity to shoot it while sporting clays; it sat in the case unused for over a year. I put about a hundred shells through it that day. It worked flawlessly and, at less than a quarter of the price of something like a Versa Max, I felt like I'd totally scored picking this thing up. Yesterday was only the second outing with it. I'd only put about 6 - 8 shells through it before it started to act up. Just a couple shells later it was virtually unusable. Another shooter there had the same gun and his ran flawlessly. I thought maybe it was an ammo issue; I had to buy some low cost budget brand of shells because it was all I could find locally on short notice. But that wasn't it -- at least not entirely.
Full disclosure: I bear some responsibility here as well. Lack of proper care may've contributed to the issue as well by not giving it a good cleaning after it's first use. So, I'll own that. Nonetheless, I wouldn't expect this significant a problem from that alone or even this combined with poor ammo.
In fact, as noted in the video above, the primary problem appears to be with the gas system. OR3GUN appears to have some reasonable solutions but before I run out and buy their products, I need to do a bit more research on the issue to make sure what I do corrects the problem. We'll see what I find. I'm optimistic with a few upgrades, this can be a very reliable runner.
Attended a local 3-gun course yesterday and for the first time encountered what many Mossberg 930 JM Pro owners already know - reliability problems; specifically, failure to eject the shell.
Not only did it fail to eject, it jammed the shell back up into the chamber making removal incredibly difficult. This happened 3 times in a row, each time requiring me to eventually pry the shell casing out with a screwdriver (yeah, 3x -- I'm a slow learner or something). This video captures the problem perfectly:
I purchased this shotty nearly 2 years ago specifically for 3-gun use. I don't have a lot of bandwidth for matches these days, so spending a lot of money on specific use shotgun wasn't really appealing. An opportunity to purchase this came up at a price that, on the surface, made it way too good to pass up. It has a lot of great features and when it works, it's really pretty terrific - huge bang for my buck (literally). The catch is...when it works.
Last fall was the first time I had an opportunity to shoot it while sporting clays; it sat in the case unused for over a year. I put about a hundred shells through it that day. It worked flawlessly and, at less than a quarter of the price of something like a Versa Max, I felt like I'd totally scored picking this thing up. Yesterday was only the second outing with it. I'd only put about 6 - 8 shells through it before it started to act up. Just a couple shells later it was virtually unusable. Another shooter there had the same gun and his ran flawlessly. I thought maybe it was an ammo issue; I had to buy some low cost budget brand of shells because it was all I could find locally on short notice. But that wasn't it -- at least not entirely.
Full disclosure: I bear some responsibility here as well. Lack of proper care may've contributed to the issue as well by not giving it a good cleaning after it's first use. So, I'll own that. Nonetheless, I wouldn't expect this significant a problem from that alone or even this combined with poor ammo.
In fact, as noted in the video above, the primary problem appears to be with the gas system. OR3GUN appears to have some reasonable solutions but before I run out and buy their products, I need to do a bit more research on the issue to make sure what I do corrects the problem. We'll see what I find. I'm optimistic with a few upgrades, this can be a very reliable runner.