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Hey good people!
I have a Savage Model 30 .410 shotgun and cannot for the life of me figure out why the cartridges will not stay in the tube. The cartridge stop is there and only goes in one way. Magazine plug is in place, spring it good, good tension on the plug. Not sure what else I could be missing.
Thanks!

Sarge, I guess I steered you from Gunboards to the wrong place.

Kinda weird that nobody knows Savage 30s here--Lord knows Savage made and sold a buttload of 'em! Were they based on another Savage or Stevens model that Savage guys WOULD know about?

Not much shotgun talk on here. I had to look up the Model 30 just to see what it was.

To me the cartridge stop doesn't look like it's close enough to the rim of .410, is it bent? or could someone have put in one from a 12 or 20 gage? Does it move as the action is cycled? I was going to pull out my 170 rifle, it would have a similar, or possibly the same, cartridge stop as a 30 in .410... but it's currently in the back corner of a safe. Someone with a 170 that's readily at hand should be able to help.


Part 27 here, but there is no individual listing for it - 30-series-c-410-ga
Part 30 for a 170 - sav/170-ser-a

Here's a 20 ga one for a Model 30 - products/399290D