MCgunner
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I've been hunting with a Mossberg 500 camo for 20 years, bought new, still in good shape despite the rough treatment in the salt marshes around. I had a perfectly good old Revelation 310 before that, itself a Mossberg 500, and bought a 500 accuchoke barrel for it for steel shot when that became mandated. I got a 10 gauge H&R a couple of years ago for goose hunting and that one has been good, very tight patterning with steel T shot.
I owned 3 12s (the 500, a Winchester 1400 auto, and an old SxS that I've pretty much retired, though it still shoots. I'd thought about getting a 935 for the 3.5" chamber and gas operation, but wasn't really thinkin' about it hard as money is a little tight for a while. Then, today, I was just horsin' around before work and stopped in at a pawn shop that sometimes has a deal. They had a like NEW Mossberg 535, blued, wood stock. Someone has cut the stock down to 13" of pull, but I figure I'll just slip a slip on limb saver over it and bring it back close to 14", what I prefer. I can take the pad off if I'm wearing winter clothing, which always tends to hang up a 14" pull stock. That might have been the previous owner's idea on the subject, don't know.
I haven't shot it, yet. I will soon enough. I wanna get some 12 gauge 3.5" T shot to pattern and compare to my 10. I'll keep shooting the 10 if the 12 can't match it, and I doubt it can cause that 10 shoots 90+ percent 30" pattern circle at 40 yards. Hard to beat that. No holes, either.
I really didn't need this thing, but in the shape it's in, 170 bucks just seemed hard to resist. Only thing I'll do to it is sand down the recoil pad to fit, which the guy that cut it down never did. I will also need to install a swivel stud kit for my sling. It's got a mod choke in it, doesn't look like my 500 chokes will fit, but mod is what I normally shoot, anyway. It does have the plug in it, too, thankfully as I'd have a short error in length to play with making one. I'll probably try the thing out in the marsh this coming season. I'm pretty used to my old 500 and still like it for ducks, but I gotta use this new to me gun at least once. If nothing else, it'll make a good back up for geese OR ducks. If I can get 3.5" Ts to pattern well, I'll use it on geese. It might kick like heck, though. My 10 is 9 lbs, this thing seems lighter.
I owned 3 12s (the 500, a Winchester 1400 auto, and an old SxS that I've pretty much retired, though it still shoots. I'd thought about getting a 935 for the 3.5" chamber and gas operation, but wasn't really thinkin' about it hard as money is a little tight for a while. Then, today, I was just horsin' around before work and stopped in at a pawn shop that sometimes has a deal. They had a like NEW Mossberg 535, blued, wood stock. Someone has cut the stock down to 13" of pull, but I figure I'll just slip a slip on limb saver over it and bring it back close to 14", what I prefer. I can take the pad off if I'm wearing winter clothing, which always tends to hang up a 14" pull stock. That might have been the previous owner's idea on the subject, don't know.
I haven't shot it, yet. I will soon enough. I wanna get some 12 gauge 3.5" T shot to pattern and compare to my 10. I'll keep shooting the 10 if the 12 can't match it, and I doubt it can cause that 10 shoots 90+ percent 30" pattern circle at 40 yards. Hard to beat that. No holes, either.
I really didn't need this thing, but in the shape it's in, 170 bucks just seemed hard to resist. Only thing I'll do to it is sand down the recoil pad to fit, which the guy that cut it down never did. I will also need to install a swivel stud kit for my sling. It's got a mod choke in it, doesn't look like my 500 chokes will fit, but mod is what I normally shoot, anyway. It does have the plug in it, too, thankfully as I'd have a short error in length to play with making one. I'll probably try the thing out in the marsh this coming season. I'm pretty used to my old 500 and still like it for ducks, but I gotta use this new to me gun at least once. If nothing else, it'll make a good back up for geese OR ducks. If I can get 3.5" Ts to pattern well, I'll use it on geese. It might kick like heck, though. My 10 is 9 lbs, this thing seems lighter.
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