A bolt action shotgun?

[25 Pdr]

Picked up this Mossberg 12Ga 2 3/4" Bolt Action recently. I think it looks cool, it balances well has a two shot magazine and feeds quite fast.



I paid 150 UK pounds that's 245 US Dollars. If you think that's dear consider I paid the equivalent of 1000 Dollars for a new Marlin 1894C.Guns are expensive in the UK.

To conform with UK regulations the magazine is welded in place.

 

[shadowmanlc]

I've got an old Mossberg 150 in 16ga with a polychoke and a 2 round mag. Anyone want to buy it?

 

[shadowmanlc]

obviously I don't know how to post images. Sorry.

 

[robhof]

I had a 12ga Mosberg in the 60's that shot ok, but weighed a ton. It shot ok, but the polychoke worked best in mod setting as full or open tended to pull left or right for some reason. Traded it years ago for a b/p pistol.

 

[DougW]

I thought I had a pic, but I don't.

I have a shotgun that was made from a 98K Mauser with a milled out the reciever, modified bolt head and magazine, making it a 2 shot. A 26" full choke Nitro Proofed 12ga barrel and cut down stock are also some of the "new" features. Stock emblem has "Hard Hit Hart" on it. These shotguns were custom conversions and are not safe as the two forward bolt lugs are milled out and only the rear lug is holding the bolt. We called it "the cannon", and I have shot it in the past, but now it sits in the gun closet. I will take a pic when I get back to the house later this week.

 

[twinsdad]

I have an old Savage .410 bolt action with a tubular magazine.

 

[Al LaVodka]

Considered often to be the ugliest guns made, an old Mossberg 185 (IIRC) 20 ga. was the first gun I was lent to go hunting with as a teen. As was said, back in the day, they were almost as inexpensive as ubiquitous Harrington & Richardson single-shots, which didn't have the greatest reputation, but were nicer and repeaters, if slow ones. I bought a used later-model 20 ga. of my own and bought a new stock direct from Mossberg, restocked it, and it became my favorite small game hunting shotgun to this day. Eventually I bought a minty 12 ga. for the heck of it. Just as ugly, and just as cool. Did I lend one to my Mom during the Rodney King Riots?

Come to think of it, a buddy who was emulating me but didn't quite know any better, and wouldn't listen, bought a Marlin bolt-action Goose Gun as his first firearm. It was a 3" chambered fixed Full-choke on something like a three-foot barrel. It was useless for anything but a couple of geese here and there. Sure he never actually used it...

Anyone mention single-shot Enfields? The magazine-well is filled with wood and they take, what, a proprietary rimfire cartridge (?) to keep rebellious colonists who might get their hands on them from the local Bobbies from ever being able to use them...

Al