May I put this on the US shotgunsworld forum? They might have answers.

Also posted to GS

I have an almost 10 year old Mossberg 930 SPX which I enjoy very much but for the two occasions when it has let me down due to parts breakage. There have been three of those with the first one being a broken extractor. I'll put my hand up for that one as at the time I was shooting a hell of a lot of unnecessarily hot heavy slug handloads through it.

The next two I think are the result of a flaw in the design. The part is a 1.55ish diameter 11mm long pin the connects the bolt release button/front shell stop (right hand side part in pic below) to the rear shell stop (left hand part). The first time it broke, about 8 years back or so, I replaced it with a piece of 1.5mm drill bit shank that I tempered in the oven. No idea how well the tempering worked but the pin lasted for many thousands of rounds and broke again on Friday night when I was getting in a last practice session before our clubs SADPA new years qualifier yesterday.

Stripped it yesterday afternoon and the pin was broken in three pieces exactly as before. Made up a few pins as before and once they had finished cooking I reassembled and tested with snap caps only for the f'n thing to break again. It was at that moment I realised I was a muppet as the fatter, shorter rear shell stop spring was in the parts bowl looking lonely. Redid the job and tested it out at the local indoor hell hole range and ran 50 shells through it in two shot strings all from the tube with an empty chamber which is the condition guaranteed to make it kak with the pin broken.

Given that the pin broke almost immediately on racking shells with a missing rear stop spring I wonder if its a bit weak. Anyone happen to have had the same thing happen or got any ideas? I'm fetching a pump action 12G I bought in 10 days time so this thing doesn't HAVE to do bump in the night duty after that but I'm very used to it and will take a good while to be as confident with the pump so I'd prefer to get it working reliably again.

SORTED

I need a 1"-14 press die bushing, and a Hornady #30 shellplate.

It's been a few years since I loaded .500 Jeffery. I wanted to resize some brass yesterday, and found that there is not a single 1"-14 adapter in the house.

I do remember the last press I used for Jeffery brass was a CH4D, which I sold, it had 2 adapters with it.

It's also been a while since I loaded .44 Special on my progressive, and I cannot find the #30 shellplate. I've put a few rounds together using a #5, but I should be using the #30.

If you have either of those to let go, I can take them off your hands.

Quote from: Newton on Jan 17, 2025, 03:34 PMAfter ..
Much advice / many suggestions / many links to well considered Internet sites all of which is apparently not worth much HERE !
Please tell me what terrible deed I have committed ?

There is no issue with referring to external sources of information.

There is issue with posting such content as your personal input on a particular reloading issue, especially when the content posted in contradictory.

Rather link to external content and specify "this is how Some Name Here solves this problem ..." .

Much more important than learning from other people is learning by doing. You can always eventually learn just by doing, without external input, but you can never learn unless you are doing.

Will be at Eufees in Pretoria.

Quote from: Newton on Jan 17, 2025, 03:34 PMA quick parting shot

Promise?

 A quick parting shot

Clearly there are sensitive egos here who do not like to be questioned - when asked for validation of THEIR experience and knowledge
As well as those that support the .. do not question

"Please, consider gracing some other shooting forum with your presence, and retire from this one."

Is this "Mr Moderator" how one is welcomed onto this forum ?
After ..
Much advice / many suggestions / many links to well considered Internet sites all of which is apparently not worth much HERE !
Please tell me what terrible deed I have committed ?

I just wonder how one learns to become a "reloader" - with practical experience - without any external reference / learning / reading / tutorship ?

As to .. "So you practice pulling the reloading press handle, continuously resizing sized brass."

NO I use a number of various factory cases and carefully check and measure dimensions and how these are different to my custom developed cases and how this is related to and is affected by my CUSTOM / modified dies. In order to design a custom chamber reamer.
I also use QuickDESIGN / QuickLOAD / GRT to form some idea of how all this will work BEFORE actual reloading

The mechanical seating of  primers and filling a case with powder is pretty much straight forward as is seating bullets
Everything revolves around the case - the rifle chamber - and the dies !

You do what works for you , I will continue doing what works or me - without boring anyone with what that is !

BASA shoots for 2025.

Not an answer, but I do not want to start a new thread of the same topic

DISPOSING OF

I have a 1X50 box of 308130HV080 bullets.  Bag is opened but all 50 are still there.  R500-00 includes PUDO cost.

LOOKING FOR

Anyone wishing to dispose of 140 gr 303 bullets from GS Custom