Pissed off mossberg 940 owner

Button Pusher said:
I picked up a 930 from a forum member that had run 100rds and it looked NIB vs that 940.
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When the 930 came out i wanted it. Went to mace and they had one. When i picked it up, the forend would move like it wasn't on tight. I asked the guy behind the counter and he brought out another one, same thing. I passed.

Years later and every single time i go to mace, i go pick up a 930 and it has that forend movement.

Might be their design, might be assembly process but i have felt at least 50 of them and never felt a tight one that didn't have play. If i bought it, it would drive me nuts. Sucks too bc i like the looks a lot... maybe I'm just picky.
 
Mr. Bggs said:
When the 930 came out i wanted it. Went to mace and they had one. When i picked it up, the forend would move like it wasn't on tight. I asked the guy behind the counter and he brought out another one, same thing. I passed.

Years later and every single time i go to mace, i go pick up a 930 and it has that forend movement.

Might be their design, might be assembly process but i have felt at least 50 of them and never felt a tight one that didn't have play. If i bought it, it would drive me nuts. Sucks too bc i like the looks a lot... maybe I'm just picky.
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my 930 has that wiggle. it hasnt hurt me at all.

it has also taken countless dove, crows, groundhogs, and 1 deer. im happy with it. i actually shoot it much better than pop's rem 1100, but that's more fit than function. i guess my 930 gives me the wiggles haha.
 
papa_smurf said:
my 930 has that wiggle. it hasnt hurt me at all.

it has also taken countless dove, crows, groundhogs, and 1 deer. im happy with it. i actually shoot it much better than pop's rem 1100, but that's more fit than function. i guess my 930 gives me the wiggles haha.
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I figure it has to be the way they are assembled being that every single one i pick up does it (checked one last week- yep still there)... it just bothers me. No offense to anybody that has one and likes it. Just a personal preference.
 
Mr. Bggs said:
I figure it has to be the way they are assembled being that every single one i pick up does it (checked one last week- yep still there)... it just bothers me. No offense to anybody that has one and likes it. Just a personal preference.
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no offense taken. i wanted the share my view that it didnt affect functionality.
 
I looked at the 940 for a little while, especially the ideation as Mossberg worked closely with JM to see what he did to his competition 930.

They literally did exactly what he did to tune his 930, and made it available. If is good for JM, well... it should be awesome.

I just love my Versamax, eats anything, and the softest recoil I have ever felt -- even the turkey loads.
 
VA_GENTLEMAN said:
They literally did exactly what he did to tune his 930, and made it available. If is good for JM, well... it should be awesome.

I just love my Versamax, eats anything, and the softest recoil I have ever felt -- even the turkey loads.
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I think the difference is JM or who he trust with building his guns are masters of the craft. And the 940 was thrown together at the factory on an assembly line. But you are right, if it’s good enough for JM, in theory it should be good enough for us.

Not to hijack the thread, but man the one thing the modern era Remington got right and they go bankrupt. The Versamax is a great shotgun.
 
There was a guy on Enos forum who shot many tens/hundreds of thousands of shells through several 930’s in 3gun and training.

He had a great tutorial and every little step to take to make a new one reliable. A lot of it had to do with basic disassembly and deburring and removing flash and stuff in certain areas. He felt that if you did these things they ran great and if you didn’t you were rolling the dice.

At any rate, I chose to go a different route for a 3gun shotgun as I had seen mixed results from mossbergs in competition.
 
keepcalmandcarryon said:
Sorry, in my world a $1000 shotgun better work straight out of the box or it isn’t worth having!
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Honestly that’s why I went a different direction. My world is similar, lol.
But at the time it seemed like all the JM 930’s were $600 and under.

$1000 is creeping up on a m2, 1301, or versamax.
 
I shot a used 930 in local 3 gun for @ 2 years (one or two matches a month during the season). It ran everything reliably until it didn't. Started having trouble picking up shells and would get light strikes. Was told I needed a extra strength 10/22 hammer spring. The new spring was longer than the original. Figured I had a better chance of shooting it across the room that getting it installed. Put it back together and sold it with full disclosure that it needed a new spring. I wanted to buy a 940 (as I love buying American made guns) but none of the upgrades of the 940 mentioned a hammer spring, so I passed. Bought a 1301, have been shooting it for @2 to 2.5 years. Will reliably run 1145 fps birdshot. Only issue I've had is that after about a year the tube came unscrewed and allowed the follower to get buggered up bad enough to bind in the tube. Replaced the follower and loctited the tube in place and it's been 100 percent reliable since.
 
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