Is the Remington V3 shotgun drop safe?
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2018 10:23 pm
I was shocked when I learned many years ago that, unlike a Glock, most shotguns are not drop safe. I even contacted Mossberg who verified there 500/590 series wasn't drop safe either. This was a surprise since it passed the army's MIL-S-3443G "Rough handling" testing where they drop the shotgun from a minimum of four feet from a variety of angles. Maybe they were being litigious, but I remember James Yeager backpedaling in a video after he had been recommending for years that people keep a round loaded in the chamber of their pump shotguns until he heard about the reality. Now he allegedly keeps the chamber empty and has to rack it (which he used to make fun of).
Of course, with a Remington V3 I'm not interested in a combat shotgun. Nonetheless, I like drop safe firearms, and I read the following in the V3 manual:
"Additional Features:
Besides the manual safety mechanism, the V3 autoloading shotguns incorporate passive features providing additional protection against accidental or unintentional discharge under normal usage and in good working order. These passive features such as the inertia firing pin system, steel alloys and/or their metallurgical treatments, the hammer, sear, and trigger engagements, the trigger disconnect, the breech lock-up system, head space, and the trigger guard all work without direct input from the user as long as your firearm is kept clean and in good working order."
Do you think these passive safety features imply it is drop safe? The Mossberg 500/590 manual, for example, makes no such claims about passive safety devices.
Of course, with a Remington V3 I'm not interested in a combat shotgun. Nonetheless, I like drop safe firearms, and I read the following in the V3 manual:
"Additional Features:
Besides the manual safety mechanism, the V3 autoloading shotguns incorporate passive features providing additional protection against accidental or unintentional discharge under normal usage and in good working order. These passive features such as the inertia firing pin system, steel alloys and/or their metallurgical treatments, the hammer, sear, and trigger engagements, the trigger disconnect, the breech lock-up system, head space, and the trigger guard all work without direct input from the user as long as your firearm is kept clean and in good working order."
Do you think these passive safety features imply it is drop safe? The Mossberg 500/590 manual, for example, makes no such claims about passive safety devices.