The fully loaded spring debate

[jrcii]

Initial story is below. But, after replacing the Mossberg spring with a Wolff spring, installing a new follower, and leaving it fully loaded for about a month, I'm seeing the same problem. When it gets to the last shell, the shell doesn't slide into the elevator, and when I move the pump forward it falls out of the bottom.

Is it possible that there is a defect with the gun? Any ideas?

Thanks again,

JRC


Hello all,

I have a Mossberg 590 that I kept fully loaded with 8 2 3/4" shells for maybe 9 months. About a month ago I bought some #4 buck shells (when I could finally find them) and wanted to replace the 00 that was in the tube. I unloaded the gun but I only saw 7 shells. I looked in the tube and there was still one in there. I racked the gun and nothing happened. Racked again, nothing happened. On the third rack, after I pushed it forward the shell came falling out of the ejection port.
Hmm. I reloaded and started racking again, the first several shells came out no problem then one was stuck again. After repeated racking they came dropping out of the bottom also.

I disassembled the gun and noticed some buffer grit in the magazine so I cleaned it and reassembled. The same thing happened and after disassembling again, I noticed the spring was like a limp noodle.

It seems to me that keeping it fully loaded definitely caused the spring to weaken.

I ordered several Wolff replacements (as an aside, it was a nightmare trying to get one of their six shot springs in my Shockwave) and after installation everything is working smoothly.

Now, here's my question. Will the Wolff spring do the same thing? I'm hoping that by investing in better springs I can keep the thing fully loaded.

Thoughts?

Thanks all,

JRC