[Setzer77]

While at my last range trip and after cleaning, I discovered how much I truly love my Mossberg 500. I've got the 18.5" cruiser model w/ pistol grip (pics to come), but was thinking about modifications.

I'm thinking about putting a different stock on it, either a regular full stock or a full stock w/ pistol grip. Searching around revealed no way that I could tell to get a longer magazine tube and a slightly longer barrel (I realize I would have to replace both, but a 20" vent rib and 7 or 8 shot tube would be great), but 5 rounds is acceptable considering I'm not exactly going to be kicking down doors and taking out b/gs with it.

I'd just like to see some pics of what you all have yours set up like, and I'll see if I actually want to change anything on mine, or leave it stock and save for something else (benelli M4 comes to mind).

[foghornl]

My HomeLand Security Shotgun setup...

Maverick 88 w/18-1/2" barrel, standard stock. Extra barrel in pic is the original 28" mod-choke plain, for use as the Woods-N-Water gun.

If you have the standard Mossberg 500 (5+1 capacity), yes you would need to swap the mag tube, mag spring, and barrel, and also the "magazine cap", where as the 5+1 models have a captive screw that holds on the barrel.

[MIL-DOT]

don't have a photo, but i didn't want to see you left hangin' !!
i'd say a year ago, i got one of the 500's , the 8-shot one with the pistol grip (which i never intended to keep on it) parkerized finish,heat shield, for something like $240. a couple months ago i got one of the full-stock-W/pistol grip units from CDNN,but didn't really like it and got lucky and traded it to a buddy with a 590 for his original synthetic stock, which is exactly what i wanted !! dumb luck,that !! i keep meaning to sling it up,but that's not the most pressing thing.....would you believe i've never fired it ?? one of these days.......:D

[MCgunner]

My main duck and goose gun. :D It's been fired way more'n once over these 20 years and has drawn plenty of avian blood. It ain't pretty, all business.

http://www.thehighroad.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=35119&d=1139190167

[marklbucla]

http://img119.imageshack.us/img119/7919/p6110630a2tx.jpg

Here's the one I used to own.

[Ed Ames]

Here's how mine looks now:

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/1706/sunfoldedtv5.jpg

The original forend busted shortly after I bought the gun so it now has the one seen here (from Choate) and the folding stock is a Knoxx copstock, which frankly wasn't an upgrade -- in my estimation my accuracy dropped 20% as compared to the original plastic. I may end up removing the folder but it is handy for transportation in cramped spaces (like the cargo area of a Cessna 172). It isn't as useful as it looks though... the loop of wire sticking up when it is folded makes for a surprisingly awkward lump.

It did make the journey from California to Texas mostly "ready to use" in the bag from my Martin Backpacker guitar -- that's an argument for folding.

[Setzer77]

Is there any setup where I can get a 20" barrel and magazine tube that goes all the way to the end?

[Landlocked Pirate]

Is there any setup where I can get a 20" barrel and magazine tube that goes all the way to the end?

Brownells has replacement barrels and magazine tubes for the 8-shot models. See this link:http://www.brownells.com/aspx/ns/Schematics/SchemMFg.aspx?schemid=160
I think you will need a different magazine spring also.

[KevininPa]

...........interested in that switching out a five to an eight. Has anyone done this? Anything else needed besides the tube and possibly another mag spring? I have a Mossy 500A with a 24" smoothbore slug barrel that I've been thinking about changing around some.


Kevin in Pa

[foghornl]

KevininPa:

You will also need a barrel specifically for the 8-shot models. Look at the pix that marclbucla & I posted...his is the 8-shot, mine is the 6. The 8-shot has the 'barrel/magazine attachment thingy' right at the end of the barrel, while the 6 shot is much closer to the receiver

Although, by the time you buy all of that stuff, you are close to the price of a complete new "Security" [8-shot] Model Mossberg/Maverick.

[MCgunner]

Just sell it and buy a 590 if you want firepower. The magazine does unscrew, though, but might have to chuck it in a soft vise and use a strap wrench on it first time. But, you can buy the barrel and mag parts and install 'em, but I'd just sell it and buy a 590 if that's what ya want.

Five is too many for me. I have a plug to restrict my capacity to 2 rounds in the magazine, by law all I'm allowed. I use a coach gun for home defense, two is enough. I hit what I shoot at. A human, even moving, is hard to miss compared to a dove or a duck or even a clay target. I just don't see the need for firepower.

[Ash]

Here are photos of one just like mine.

Ash

[KevininPa]

Not something I really feel a great need for. All this Mossberg talk was just putting me in "tinker" mode. Like you McGunner, I have a coach gun in the closet. My house has so many turns and angles that I appreciate it's shorter length more than having more rounds. Think we covered this a few pages ago while discussing Spartans. Thanks and have a good day.


Kevin in Pa

[Setzer77]

I like having an 18.5" bbl, and 5 rounds is very much enough to do any serious work. The only reason I want 8 with a longer bbl is for entertainment purposes at the range. There's something wonderful and fun about peppering a paper target at 25 yards and watching the target flap back and forth from the blast.

[MCgunner]

Ah, remember the conversation Kevin. :D

I like having an 18.5" bbl, and 5 rounds is very much enough to do any serious work. The only reason I want 8 with a longer bbl is for entertainment purposes at the range. There's something wonderful and fun about peppering a paper target at 25 yards and watching the target flap back and forth from the blast.

Can't compare to a clay vaporizing from a good hit, or even better, a duck folding in a cloud of feathers and hitting the water with a kersplash as the lab waits his command. Ah, I love the onset of fall. :D

[ArmedBear]

a duck folding in a cloud of feathers and hitting the water with a kersplash

I did that with the first dove of this season. It was a satisfying shot, but it was also somewhat disappointing to see the dove float away in the irrigation canal.:D

[MCgunner]

They have canals in the desert? ROFL!

[CajunBass]

While it doesn't say "Mossberg" on the gun, it's a Mossberg at heart. It's a "Sears" model pump gun made by Mossberg. I got it in 1976, and it's dropped a few deer in it's time. It came with a 28" mod. barrel, and 24" slug barrel and cost $99.00.

Not a very good picture, but a darn good gun.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b292/CajunBass/Cajunshoots055.jpg

[Setzer77]

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c198/Setzer77/S3093.jpg

Pic as promised, next to my free SKS (Norinco) and FNP9-M