Hi all, firstly I want to apologize for my ignorance (and slightly click-baity title). I've only ever used break-action shotguns before.
I've just purchased an Adler B220PG and was practicing loading and cycling the action at home with snap caps.
All was well until I had a jam (snap cap ejected ok but the next snap cap failed to load from the tube into the chamber). The bolt was stuck, not locked, open and I had to reach inside the chamber and prise up the snap cap with my fingers. The bolt closed and I pulled the trigger then tried to cycle again. The snap cap inside the chamber ejected OK but the next snap cap also ejected from the loading port. Subsequent cycling caused the snap caps inside the mag tube to be ejected out the loading port at pretty high speeds.
I noticed this piece of metal on my bed where the snap caps where being ejected. I'm 99% sure that it wasn't there before I was practicing loading and cycling.
I had a look at the Adler instruction manual exploded parts diagram but can't seem to identify it. Since then it seems to alternate between cycling OK, jamming, or simply ejecting the snap caps from the tube.
I'm not sure if it's user error as the manual doesn't explain how to load the shotgun.
I'm using this process:
1. Bolt locked open, insert 1 snap cap in the chamber
2. Press bolt release button
3. Load snap caps into mag tube
4. Pull trigger, cycle bolt
I've attached a picture of the piece of metal with a toothpick for scale:
Edit to add: I'm hoping this is me just being a noob. I did press the bolt release button with an empty chamber when the bolt was locked back (to see what would happen basically) and it wouldn't lock back again until I pulled the trigger/dry fired it. I realise the shells ejecting out of the tube would be a feature, not a bug - otherwise to unload the gun you would have to cycle each shell into the chamber before ejecting, which is a potential safety issue. I'm just not sure how to do it on purpose, and why the gun seems to fail to load the next shell into the chamber sometimes.
Does anyone who has disassembled their Adler recognise the part in the picture?