Mossberg 590A1 budsgubshop question

[mrbladedude]

http://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/products_id/46998

It doesn't say heavy walled barrel or metal trigger and safety. Also the weight they have listed on buds is 6 3/4 lbs but the Mossberg site says 7 1/4 LBS.

Are all 590's the A1's? Is the one budsgunshop is selling the one I am looking for? ( 590A1 20 inch barrel #51660 ) ?

Is model number 51660 definitely the A1 or is there another Mossberg shotgun with the same model number?

 

[fatcat4620]

Its a regular 590 pick with an A1 description and price.

 

[mrbladedude]

Its a regular 590 pick with an A1 description and price.

Ya im confused man.

 

[DenaliPark]

All A1's have the metal trigger guard, safety, and heavy walled barrel. I wouldn't buy the specimen you're looking at because it has a bead sight, if it's a tactical gun, make mine ghost ring sighted.

As a practical matter, the 590SP with the polymer trigger guard, safety, ghost ring sights, ect. is the exact same gun! Heavy walled barrels are meaningless unless you're intending to have it worked on to accept a choke.

You'll hear the mall ninjas stridently yammering away on the virtues of the steel trigger guard & safety, but they are just as meaningless. I found a local gunsmiths experience with a broken Mossberg polymer safety interesting, it was the first he'd seen in over twenty years. It was broken by the mall ninja who bought it while he was trying to swap it out for the steel version!

 

[mnrivrat]

The header indicates a M590A1 , but then below the picture is a M590 Special Purpose. So - the header is wrong

 

[Marty183]

Call Buds and ask them...If this gun is for HD, then a bead sight will work great. I would have nothing but that for ultra fast target acquisition in up close and personal HD work. I added a Big Dot to my 870 HD gun...

 

[DenaliPark]

Call Buds and ask them...If this gun is for HD, then a bead sight will work great. I would have nothing but that for ultra fast target acquisition in up close and personal HD work. I added a Big Dot to my 870 HD gun...

This is fallacious logic, you're implying that a bead sight offers something that it doesn't, speed! If you can't use your GRS then you won't be able to use your bead either!

GRS are far superior to bead sights on HD/tactical type shotguns, they offer far greater versatility and a measure of precision that a bead is hopeless to match. At such close HD ranges demanding point shooting, the issue becomes moot, better to have the superior sighting and not need it, then need it and not have it.

 

[mrbladedude]

Are ghost rings superior to beads shooting targets up to 80 yards with slugs?