Seems like on my pump that when it is shot, the slide wants to come back and I look and my action is about halfway each time I shoot. Is this something I should get checked or would it just makefor faster
reloading ? Thanks for your help.

That's fairly common, in fact Winchester 1300's are advertised as the "speed" pump as a result. The action unlocks at detonation and if your hand is on the pump, the recoil will allow your hand to move the handle back. The shot charge will already be out of the muzzle when that happens. You will notice it more on a heavy load than a light one. As long as you can't shuck the action when it's cocked, there's nothing wrong with the gun.

Thanks for the reply. As long it is safe to operate. It is my fiancee's turkey gun so I want it to be 100% safe. Thanks again.

I had an 870 Express that would do that a lot. There was no safety issue, but the problem was that it would come back enough that you didn't have a lot of travel left to get the slide going enough to positively eject the spent shell unless you really slammed it back. And if you ran it forward a little to get a better "running start", it was easy to go too far and it'd lock in battery with an empty shell in the chamber forcing me to press the slide release to cycle the action. It was again, not a safety issue, but it was very obnoxious. My Browning BPS never had this problem. It'd stay in battery through recoil until I actually racked the slide. I miss that Browning. [:@]

Mike

most every 870 and mossberg ive ever fired does that...especially with heavy loads...


like the others said, no saftey issue....but when you cycle the action, do it like you mean it. once you short stroke one and need that 2nd shell and its not there, you'll learn to work that action harder...

been there done that...thankfully i still ended up taking the turkey home...would have been home an hour earlier if i would had that 2nd shell in though....that click was a sickening sound when you got a wounded turkey that comes back to life and can run at full speed...

If you train yourself to do it, you can actually shuck the slide all the way back when it unlocks for an extremely speedy reload by holding the forend with rearward pressure. Try that and you'll see that you can fire "aimed" shots almost as fast as an autoloader as with practice you're using the fore hand to bring the barrel back into direction you want while cycling the slide. It's an old pump gun trick.

One of my first trap guns was a Win. 1200 in Trap Grade. It would semi-shuck the fired casing also. I got where I could fire my round, and keeping the gun mounted to my shoulder, complete the shuck with my left hand, and catch the ejected case with my right without dismounting the gun.....all in one fluid motion. Looked cool, but never helped me break more birds... Don't worry about the situation. As others have said, it's a post-fire condition.