Who's seen or had a broken Mossberg 500?

[dak0ta]

Watch Jerry Miculek run his Mossberg from 1992.

They work and are reliable, just depends if you like it or not.

 

[deputy tom]

I ripped the action bars from the forearm ring once and it was a quick fix at my gunsmith. The spot welds broke so we silver soldered it back together. Other than that no problems with over a dozen Mossberg 500s. My go to gun is a Mossberg. tom.

 

[MCgunner]

Miculek is my hero. Good vid.

 

[dak0ta]

Anybody amazed at his split times from left plate to right plate? And then he was like.. hm.. 'that was decent'...

Haha.. then he goes onto explain.. sometimes I press the trigger too fast before the gun gets into battery.. either I have a fast finger or soft shoulder.

If Mossberg made more of that Miculek custom pump style of gun, I think they'd be more popular. 500 with 590 style magazine tube and cap. Albeit, the regular 500 barrels makes it cheaper to have more barrel setups.

I'd pay a little more for a 500 with 590/835 mag tube just so I could clean the magazine easier and add an extension if I wanted to. I'd also pay a little more for a metal safety. I can live with the polymer trigger guard.

 

[MCgunner]

And something about "untrained"? Well, how do you train the trainer? LOL

That 12 shots from a six shot revolver on target in 2.99 seconds is my fave vid, though. Miculek is good, but he's an absolute wizard with a DA revolver.

 

[dak0ta]

Do you think his trigger finger ever gets worn out?

 

[markman]

The only problem I've personally seen are the plastic parts breaking (mostly the safety tang). I've changed mine out to an aftermarket metal one along with the trigger guard.

 

[WestKentucky]

I saw a broken slide rail on one. It was an older, very well used gun in 20ga 2 3/4 only trim. The slide rail sheared off at the lug going up into the bottom plate of the bolt assembly. That broken piece jammed up the action pretty good and we nearly never got it apart. That was the last extra heavy 3" home brew turkey she'll put through it....but I do know that the guy who owned it had patterned it with 3 shots at 10 yard increments out to I think 70 yards. He broke the butt stock in the process and had to put on a hogue stock that I now have on my New Haven 600 20ga. If I remember right his "secret recipe" was a 16 ga pheasant load in a 20ga hull with a cardboard wad glued on because there wasn't enough plastic to crimp. I hope to see that guy again soon but that's up to his parole board...he never could stop when enough was enough.

 

[USAF_Vet]

West Kentucky, I have a moss 500 receiver with a broken slide rail like you mentioned. It still functioned, just had to occasionally finger the bolt back into place to cycle the action. This was gonna 12 gauge.

Eventually, I retired it from service and stripped it for spare parts in case my Mav88 ever breaks.