Shotlock and Mossberg 500 Thumbhole stock - Good pair? Bad Pair?

[Sug008]

Have the Mossberg 500 with the thumbhole stock. (57700) Want to keep it ready-secure and the Shotlock looks like the best answer right now.

Hoping someone out there knows whether this Mossberg fits the Shotlock?

Also hoping this inquiry doesn't degenerate into pro-con Mossberg, pro-con Shotlock, pro-con locking up loaded shotgun, etc, etc, etc.

Thanks in advance

 

[Fred Fuller]

You're going to put a thumbhole stock on a defensive Mossberg 500 ... why?

The reason I ask is that Mossberg 500s have a top mounted sliding safety, and using a pistol grip or thumbhole stock means you have to break your firing grip to manipulate the safety... not generally considered to be a good idea for a fighting shotgun. The conventional stock works MUCH better in this regard...

 

[BigBL87]

Kinda what I was thinking. Basically takes one of the better features of the Mossberg and makes it more difficult to use.

 

[MikeJackmin]

I wasn't familiar with shotlock's products, so I did a google search and happened upon this thread:

http://www.usacarry.com/forums/general-firearm-discussion/35331-securing-hd-shotguns-children.html

One of the posters has a pistol-gripped shotgun (not a 500) which is also equipped with a bulky rear peep sight, which did not fit. He made some modifications which are shown in a couple of photos there.

I very much do NOT like the changes he made - the potential for tripping the trigger is just a bad design, IMO. Anyway, I'm pointing this out because you can probably get a good visual impression of what you are up against, even though this was not the exact same gun as yours.

But yeah the first order of business would be to move to a more appropriate stock for the Mossberg action.

 

[Sam1911]

While that's perhaps not the very best idea in the world, assuming you leave the gun "cruiser ready" (full tube, empty chamber) it wouldn't be a deal-breaker.

1) Empty gun.
2) Dryfire (to release the slide).
3) Load mag tube.
4) Lock into safety thingy.

Try as you might, you won't make it go off because the hammer's already down, and there's no round in the chamber anyway.

I still might choose to put the stud somewhere other than inside the trigger guard, but there are ways to make that workable.

 

[Averageman]

If you want to put a lock on it why not use a cable lock through the open action?
Certainly the gun cannot be fired in the configuration.

 

[Doc7]

Shot lock faster to put into action than a keyed cable lock...and doubles up as a storage rather than leaning it against the wall with a cable hanging on it.