Recent content by RichardL

I like that idea! Same here, I always disliked the red plastic lid for that same reason. I'm assuming you're securing the shot lid somehow? I think I'm not the only one that's ever dumped that danged thing all over the floor.

'Cept he's talking about "easily stripped and worked on", not a takedown barrel/mag tube as you guys seem to be fixated on arguing. If that was the topic then any old first gen single or double breech loaded shotgun from the late 19th century would be the first. Going to delete the next three...

Numrich always has barrels. I used to buy 28" C-lect barrels and cut them to 20 and 24 for turkey hunters. A 20" with a Winchoke makes a great hunting gun. Those 28" barrels used to be avail for $24 a pop at one time. Nowhere near that now, though.

Like I said, if you have two parts, in this case one good gun and one rough gun, simply switch out parts and find the best. Put the good, smooth action slide tube onto the rough gun and try it out. If it fixes the prob, you know the bars need smoothing on the rough one. If it's still rough...

Old school here. Small leather disk. Worked for hundreds of years.

Bar, that tube looks mighty rough to be a new part. Did you say that came from Midway? Looks like three dings on that edge there. Must have been handled pretty ruggedly. Well, no biggy either way. As long as you got fixed up. All that counts. How's the gun working out for you now...

You've got nothing to lose on a bent tube. Try hammering a socket down the tube with a broomstick. Start slow and small and then work up to the proper sized socket. You can tap it back out with a rod through the takedown screw hole. Don't hammer the socket directly or you'll damage it....and...

Love that one you created, Joe! Great idea, bud! Looks very professional!

That looks like the modern pinned forearm type. Are the bars pinned directly to the plastic there, Berg? Is there a castle nut on the front? That one, if it is the pinned type, can't be changed to mount a new type of forearm so the only thing you can do on that one is cut it. You did that...

That forearm overlap has nothing to do with the tube length, though. It would stick just as far back as nwo if it was mounted on the longer slide tube. That collar where the action bars are pinned is the same exact length no matter the slide tube length. Cutting back on that left side of the...

Same as above.

On second thought, I'm not going to get involved in this one. Been there, done that.

Yep, definitely plastic. That's about it. No idea why. I did just find this one, though; https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mossberg-835-12-Ga-Magazine-Spring-Follower-amp-Retainer-1-/302507262900 Appears to be the same one. I've never seen a Mossberg with a plastic follower. New one to me. Other...

Belief has nothing to do with it. If you don't mind, though, pull it and post it. I'd love to see it just to see it. And as I said, buy an old mag tube and you'll most likely get the spring and follower free.

All 500 family guns are the same follower, yep. That's why that strikes me as funny that one gun, for some reason, has a plastic follower that imparts zero improvement and adds cost. The only thing I can see on a plastic is that they can be self lubricating....maybe cut a fraction of a sec of...