Recent content by Smitty in CT

The recoil will be extremely harsh, on a typical shotgun stock the recoil is transferred in a downward dirrection. In this configuration, ALL of the recoil is directed straight into your shoulder ... OUCH!!

He's 14 and he's already 6' and 170 lbs. .. As to what he eats, we haven't found what he won't eat yet ... He dressed the wood & teal hens and ate them both at one sitting ...

You may also want to contact Outdoors Without Limits. Their website is: http://www.outdoorswithoutlimits.net/ Kirk Thomas used to work with the NWTF in the Wheelin' Sportsman program, a few years ago, he went off and started his own organization ... They help people with special needs...

Yesterday was "Youth Hunting" day here in CT I took my 14 year old out for his first "alone" hunt... We went to a local pond and set up the decoys, I set him in a bunch of reeds in the marsh then as I was heading back into shore in the canoe he got his first drake wood duck, without any...

Walmart and all the other "box stores" get their guns from the same distributors that your local gun shop does.. There might be "special" SKU's, but if you look at the stock number, an 85225 is an 85225 no matter where they buy it from...

Check the longer barrel.... Big 5 carried one Model 500 that has a "Fixed MOD Choke" barrel, no choke tubes... That might be why it's less expensive...

The Mossberg model 500 was introduced in 1961....in the early '60's they went to two slide action bars, but asside from that they're pretty much the same as the newer ones, aside from cosmetics (and the older ones don't have montrosities and tacti-cool stuff hanging off of them) Prior to that...

Keep trying the Mossberg Customer Service # 1-800-363-3555 They've "contracted" their service out to their Maverick Arms division down in Texas.... Ask for Javier Contreras, he's taken care of me in the past.

Nope, they won't interchange.... The Weatherby is the closest to the SA-20, but they made the gas piston just different enough to where they won't swap....

NO!! You have been given incorrect information the 535 barrels are not interchagable with the Model 500 shotguns. Both shotgun barrels attach the same way with screw that attaches the barrel to the end of the magazine tube, but the magazine tube for the 535 is slightly longer than the one...

The only quality issues you're likely to find are related to the 930SPX and they usually have to do with either a canted front sight, a binding follower, or the wrong spring in the extended mag tube, all problems with afermarket parts being put on a field gun to make it "tactical"... You need...

Ool, I don't know about that... he trashed the Remington 887, and said the VersaMax wasn't worth the money they're asking for them... But then again, if I got paid to shoot guns and write my experiences, there wouldn't be a lot I could find to complain about.. Not many give a "rat's...

Mossberg 930 Field model http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/14634/Mossberg+930AF+12+3%22+28VR+ACCU+WAL Bud's has them for under $500, shipping included. Here's a review by Randy Wakeman: http://randywakeman.com/Review_Mossberg_930_%2012_Gauge_Autoloader.htm

The shotgun is currently up for sale on GunBroker, if anybody's interested..... http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=267222856

The stocks on the 500, 535, 590, & 835 are 100% interchangable... Swap away !!