Just bought a Mossberg

[TImnlinz2006]

Well i went ahead and bought the mossberg 100 atr .243 at academy for $298. i am really impressed with the quality of the gun. it shoots great and is a really fast gun. im having some problems sighting in the scope i just cant seem to get it right any tips will help. oh, and is there anywhere i can find some cheap ammo for it

 

[foghornl]

I have a Mossberg .30-06 ATR. Will hold under 2"@100Yds with most commercial SP "hunting ammo" if I do my part.

Try this...remove bolt from the rifle, set up a target fairly close (25Yds or less). Look through the chamber, down the barrel, and line up on the target. Now, WITHOUT MOVING the rifle (as in, rifle is set up in some sort of vise, rest, etc) see if the scope crosshairs are somewhere close to where the bore is pointing. If you have a variable scope, set it on the lowest power while lining up everything.

Remember that up this close, the height of the scope above the bore will somewhat affect what you see.

This should get you close. Then you can move out to 50Yds, shoot a few rounds, tweak scope slightly if needed, move out to 75/100Yds, repeat.

On the inexpensive ammo, I have seen the PMP brand (Pretoria Metal Pressing, THE primary South African ammo maker) in .30-06 as low as $8/20 at my local Dunham's Sporting Goods. PMP also makes a brand called Pro-Amm. IIRC, the .243 ammo was the same price.

 

[Ash]

As it is an American made Howa 1500, with some changes, I wonder if the Howa adjustable trigger would work in this rifle.

Ash

 

[Smitty in CT]

From what I have read, Mossberg originally bought the design of the 100ATR rifle from Charter Arms who was building the Raptor, Mossberg took that design and went through it to make it more producable. The Raptor was loosely based on the Howa but not identical, so the parts won't interchange.

I have a 100ATR in .270, it took about 3 boxes to get the right combo of ammo, it will hold 1" groups with 130gr Federal balistic tips. If you have one of the "factory scopes", you may want to invest in a better scope, too. These are great guns for the money.

Mossberg had a whole bunch of "new" rifles at the Shot Show this year, they are called the "4x4", still a bolt-action, but now it has a drop magazine, supposedly 9 different calibers from .25-06 all the way up to .338.

These are a new design, they don't look like a "traditional" rifle, kind of a traditional with a little tactical thrown in.... if that makes sense. They had them in walnut, laminate, and plastic, the plastic was the most radical of the designs, I liked it.

I looked on their website and they don't have it there yet....

 

[rangerruck]

what do you mean by ' just can't seem to get it right'?

 

[OLD DOMENION]

Over the years, I have notice that Mossberg makes any gun it manufactures, EXCELLENT IN QUALITY. The only bad thing about Mossberg is their design team NEVER WAS...

 

[Ash]

The Mossberg 800 was an excellent rifle, better than the Remington 788 AND the Savage 340 rifles. The 810 was also an excellent long action rifle with fully adjustable trigger, hinged floor plate or detachable magazine, and iron sights. They were both great designs. The problem was that Mossberg was competing with Winchester, Remington, Ruger, and Savage, and Mossberg's name was in .22's and shotguns. If Jeep came out with a sports car, who would buy it, even if it were great?

Looking at the manual, the trigger group looks identical to the Howa. The bolt head is different, but the controls are the same and in the same location. I would wager there would be some interchangeability (but I wouldn't bet enough to buy an ATR just to see if I could bolt some parts on it, mind you). While the trigger group might not attach, an interesting test would be to see if the stocks interchanged. If so, then adding a walnut stock to the ATR would not be hard. Then you could get a hinged floor plate.

The Raptor design is close to the ATR, but Mossberg made some changes to the design, some of which are definite improvements (such as getting rid of the terrible floor plate/trigger guard on the Raptor).

Ash

 

[Smitty in CT]

...If so, then adding a walnut stock to the ATR would not be hard. Then you could get a hinged floor plate...

Mossberg already sells the 100ATR in Walnut??

I recently say one in .308 that had a great piece of furniture on it really good grain and a nice finish. I think the price was right around $300 with wood.

They also have a "real" youth model (not just a cut down adult version), in walnut in .243 at Academy Sports.

Smitty