Chieflywaze
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Bought a new Shockwave, and upon close exam I discovers the bead was messed up!
Send it back to Mossberg. They'll fix it. My BIL picked up a 940 Pro Tactical a few months ago. There were some issues with the bolt roll pin and elevator. They took care of the issue fairly quickly. There are always "X" number of items per "Y" units produced that leave a factory (regardless of manufacturer) with some quality issue. It's what customer service and warranties are for.Bought a new Shockwave, and upon close exam I discovers the bead was messed up! View attachment 451500 View attachment 451497
Right, that's what I figure they will do, will be sure post follow up action by Mossberg.Let us know how it goes when you ship the barrel back to Mossberg to fix/replace it.
It is unfortunate that some U.S. gun makers are slacking on quality, for instance, Turkish gun makers are importing some decent quality and price reasonable firearms. Plus they include a nice tupperware case (vs cardboard box) and at lease 2 or 3 mags for pistols and 3 chokes for shotguns.Same thing that happened to Remingtons and Winchesters unfortunately.
I have 2 870’s that are about 30 years age difference and the quality is noticeably worse.
It sounds like people are buying guns without looking them over before they take them away.
The bead on that shotgun looks like it was bent over from handling or got damaged after it was installed.
If you spot something thats not right before you leave, thats time to get another one of the shelf or not accept it in the first place.
Same thing with the insurance and training requirements in the other thread.Good point. Seems there's something that happens to the human brain, when someone really wants something. Many and most tend to glace something, but not really scrutinize it, and fail to actually see what they're looking at. Happens with guns and cars especially. Happens with women too, for that matter. Then later, it's how the hell did I miss that?
Same thing with the insurance and training requirements in the other thread.
Sometimes problems are not always easy to detect even with a good look over and the desire to gratify oneself overrides good judgement.
I do not open a dozen eggs or I'm not in the habit of doing that just becuase theirs a couple of cases of eggs there.
Results are dependent on what you put into something, not always what you expect.
Sometimes when I buy something like a gun Ill ask to see a couple of them before walking out of there with one of them.
Ill do the same thing when buying a car or maybe a gun but not for an extension cord or other trivial purchase like a space heater or something but I may pull it out of the box and check it out some.
I get what I accept every single time though but not always what I expect.
In the industrial world it's called Human Performance-Yes. As you note with your examples, there's definitely a gratification element in play. Seems the more one truly wants something, the greater the tendency to overlook flaws. There's probably a clinical name for this tendency.
It'll take someone a whole lot smarter than I am, to know why this occurs. But the phenomenon seems to be real.