I have an older 870 Police that has ran true for thousands of rounds. Today I had an issue I have never encountered. It seemed that my safety was half way engaged and I could not pull the trigger of release the safety to fire the weapon. I was shooting a stage at a local match and engaged the safety during a reload. I ejected all the shells, left the line and was able to manipulate the safety, then tried dry firing and everything was fine.... No issues.
The shotgun was relatively clean and I remember concentrating on racking it with purpose so as not to short stroke. The safety is a large head safety that I installed many hundreds of rounds ago. Any ideas how to prevent this in the future or what may have happened? I guessing stress and the heat monster got me and I did not manipulate the safety all the way.
Thanks
R/
Mike