What kind of barrel is this?

[G-Man]

Ah the mossberg 185 and 190 bolt action 20. One resides in my gun cabinet. ..

[wooly]

Ah the mossberg 185 and 190 bolt action 20. One resides in my gun cabinet. ..

 

I don't remember exactly which model it was, but about 6 or 7 years ago now I borrowed one of these guns from a buddy of mine and killed a bird with it. Pretty sure it was the 185 and it had this same choke system on it and ruffled it's feathers at 40+ yds out in a field.

I didn't realize I'd ever use a pic of the choke for anything so I accidently cut it off in the photo.

I have to admit, it felt a little strange turkey hunting with a bolt action shotgun. I did have to chase him down a little ways to finish him off but in the end I had a bird over my shoulder.

 

 

What do ya know, I found a pic with the choke.

 

Edited April 22, 2015 by wooly

[Mr VJP]

Wooly, that's a Mossberg 395. I believe it was the latest rendintion of their bolt action shotgun.

I had one as a young man. Sent it to E.R. Shaw in PA to have a rifled barrel put on it before anyone was making them commercially. Put a 2x7 scope on it and it basically became a .73 caliber rifle for deer hunting. I killed my biggest deer to date with that rig.

[turkeyfeathers]

Sears sold as j.c.Higgins I believe.

I have an octagon barreled pump .22 JC Higgins from Sears

[wildcat junkie]

Yes high standard, pump forget the model.

My brother bought me a Sears 16 ga pump. It was my 1st gun & yes, it was a High Standard.

  

Sears sold as j.c.Higgins I believe.

Not all Sears guns were J. C. Higgins.

[hunter49]

  I had a J.C.Higgins & a Mossberg one in 16 ga. & the other in 12ga. both had poly chokes  and both shot slugs pretty well.  The 16 ga. was a great rabbit gun. I actually  thought they looked cool with the poly chokes.  I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder!  Mine weren't welded on .

[wildcat junkie]

I had a J.C.Higgins & a Mossberg one in 16 ga. & the other in 12ga. both had poly chokes and both shot slugs pretty well. The 16 ga. was a great rabbit gun. I actually thought they looked cool with the poly chokes. I guess beauty is in the eyes of the beer holder! Mine weren't welded on .

As a teenager with only one shotgun that had to serve every purpose from rabbits, to waterfowl, I lusted after a polychoke.

Edited April 23, 2015 by wildcat junkie

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Remingtons could be had from the factory with Cutts Compensators also...I have also seen quite a few Win M12s with the Cutts, so they may have been available from Winchester also and maybe Browning..  For some reason, I don't recall ever seeing an Ithaca with a Cutts.

 

I actually liked the looks of the Cutts better than the polychokes, despite the fact that they were larger. You could buy fixed choke tubes for them( a lot of guys used the SPREADER tube for skeet) or you could screw an adjustable tube into them.I had a Rem 11-48 28 gauge with one, and shot several Remingtons, M12s, and Brownings belonging to friends that were equipped with Cutts Compensators.

 

Those suckers were LOUD though  !!  They were worse to stand off to the side ( as on a skeet field) than they were to shoot.

I have an 11-48 in 16 ga. with one on it. Patterns well enough for small game and is really good with slugs if you are shooting around corners..lol 

Edited April 23, 2015 by Culvercreek hunt club

[Pygmy]

At age 14,  I raised a Hereford/Holstein cross calf. I sold it at the local auction for $123.  I used part of the money to buy a 16 gauge Rem 11-48, choked modified used for $85.

 

A year later, a 12 gauge Winchester M59 equipped with "Winchoke" choke tubes appeared used in my local gun shop. It was like new for $105.  I sold the 11-48 and bought it. I didn't have the entire amount, but old Jim Coakley, who owned the shop let me take the gun home and pay him $5 a week until it was paid off..It had 3 choke tubes, IC, Mod, and full. It was my main gun for years..I killed my first goose, and my first turkey with it, plus all kinds of other small game, including literally 100s of crows and many limits of ducks.

 

I still have gun, although I don't shoot it much anymore. It has an aluminum alloy receiver and a fiberglass barrel, and I believe it was the first factory shotgun produced with choke tubes similar to the ones that are so common today.

[Pygmy]

Culver...My old M59 Winchester is USELESS with slugs also..I never hit close enough to a target to know WHERE it shot them.. I always blamed it on the fiberglass barrel.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Culver...My old M59 Winchester is USELESS with slugs also..I never hit close enough to a target to know WHERE it shot them.. I always blamed it on the fiberglass barrel.

I tried every setting on the thing, including the one labeled "slugs" and it is horrible.

[covert]

Mossberg's version is called the C-lect choke.  Works pretty good.  Even though they're not rated for steel shot I used mine goose hunting last year and it didn't seem to hurt it, but I wouldn't recommend it because you could blow the choke off the end of the barrel.  I just picked up a new/used barrel with the Accu-choke so I can use that now and retire the old C-lect choke barrel.