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Bozz48 wrote:I know this is an old post, but I recently came across the Aquila Mini shells and wanted to say that I have run them through my Mossberg 590A1 with no problems. I installed the Opsol adapter and shucked 40 or so mini shells through the shotgun before I went to the range. I racked it slow, fast, sideways, pointed up, pointed down. The shells always cycled perfectly.

At the range, the mini shells were a dream to shoot. Recoil was more like a 410. I haven't tried the slugs or birdshot, but the mini buckshot shells are loaded with 7 pellets of #4 buckshot and 4 pellets of #1 buck. At 7 yards, all of the shot impacted within the target area on the 8" orange peel targets I was using.

flintknapper wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:I have a 590 and I keep those Hornady Critical Defense 2-3/4" shells in it. I have cycled the shells through the action several times (unloading for cleaning), and I've never had the malfunction happen. But perhaps I'm doing it with enough authority to prevent it.

TAM,

Unload your shotgun, rack the slide back all the way, hand feed an un-fired shot shell into the receiver. Reach in and move the brass base as far backward and upward as you can and see if the front of the shell CAN slip past the Shell Elevator 'tab'. IF it 'can' then the potential is there. Doesn't matter if it hasn't yet happened to you. What matters is if it is possible.