One spot left in my gun safe

[Tughill Tamer]

So I figured what's a gun collection without a versatile shotgun?...enter my new Mossberg 500 field and deer combo.I have been without a shotgun since I sold my Winchester model 1300(one of the dumbest moves I've made) and been thinking for awhile on replacing it.I did some research on the mossy 500 and almost everything I read was good.It came with 2 barrels a 28" bird barrel and a 24"rifled slugster barrel with the cantilever scope mount and the raised cheek piece and a cheap dead ringer 2.5 power scope( which I will soon be upgrading) out the door for $400. What do you guys think?

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[zeus1gdsm]

Love my mossies have 3 of them. Looking to pick up a 500 turkey soon

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[doebuck1234]

Have 2 500's.one setup is rifled barrel scoped and 2nd is bird gun.500 dropped the buck i got this year.also have a mossie 835.never had any problems with them

[Buckmaster7600]

They're a great shotgun for sure! If you're ever going to use it for deer the lpa trigger would have been worth it, they are truly a rifle like trigger on a shotgun. I'm pretty sure you can buy it after the fact from mossberg but I might be wrong.


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[ny hunter]

Great shotguns good luck......

[airedale]

The Mossberg 500 is a classic pump shotgun that has been around many years with a proven reliable solid track record. The bird barrel slug barrel combo was probably the number one seller for slug shotguns in the gunshop I worked in back in the late 70s and 80s. No rifled barrels back then, the slug barrels were smooth open choked bores with adjustable open sights, they were drilled and tapped for a weaver scope base on the receiver for anyone wanting to mount a scope. The cantilever system will work much better when switching back and forth between your two barrels.

Don't know a thing about the scope that came with your new Mossberg but you are right about looking to change it out if it is an el cheapo. The recoil from a shotgun firing slugs is pretty hard on a scope so you want to have one of good quality and plenty of eye relief.

Congratulations and good luck hunting with your new outfit.

Al

Edited February 8, 2017 by airedale

[bugsNbows]

Just sold mine (like that) about two weeks ago. It hadn't been shot in years (since Steuben went rifle). Never had any issues with it what-so-ever!. Congrats. 

[Zem18]

Just saw this last night and thought I'd share Start watching @ 4:30.

 

[Tughill Tamer]

Just saw this last night and thought I'd share Start watching @ 4:30.
 

Thanks for the info Zem I had never heard of that problem before, I will have to keep and eye out for it although I generally don't handle my firearms that roughly

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[Tughill Tamer]

Thanks for the info guys I can't wait to get to the range, any ideas on a good scope for it in the $100- $150 dollar range?

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[tuckersdaddy]

If you only have one space left you may want to look into a another or bigger safe..

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[Tughill Tamer]

I here ya tuckersdaddy, it's supposed to be a 18 gun safe but I only got 9 guns with scopes and it's pretty packed, there's no way you could get 18 long guns in there unless you were stacking them one on top of another, trying to talk the wife into the fact that you can never have enough guns

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[ny hunter]

Bushnell makes a good shotgun scope that won't break the bank...

[Tughill Tamer]

Bushnell makes a good shotgun scope that won't break the bank...

Thanks ny hunter I'm planning on taking this outfit with me when I hunt the thicker stuff limiting my shots to within 50 yrds or so I'm thinking maybe a fixed 4x power might work

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[airedale]

There are three things I look for when putting a scope on a slug gun. First off because of the relatively short range slug guns are used I want a scope with as big of field of view as possible. The lower the power the more field of view there is so I personally prefer a 2.5X, a 3X or a 1X4 variable which is plenty of magnification for typical slug ranges. Also because of hefty recoil I like a scope with long eye relief. You do not want a scope that has to be close to your eye when sighting through it with a heavy recoiling gun. Back when I worked in the gun shop the number one destroyer of scopes was a slug gun's heavy recoil, cheap scopes and slug guns do not go together well, buy the very best quality scope you can afford. My current slug gun wears a Leupold 3X.

Al

Edited February 9, 2017 by airedale

[The_Real_TCIII]

Bushnell makes a good shotgun scope that won't break the bank...

I've had a $100 bushnell trophy on my slug gun for at least 16 years, for a cheap scope it's really held up. Although I have to admit I rarely shoot it, just sighting in and hunting. It probably doesn't have 100 shots through it

[The_Real_TCIII]

Just saw this last night and thought I'd share Start watching @ 4:30.
 

Does he hold the trigger and pump to rapid fire it? I'd always heard you could do that with a Mossberg but was too chicken to try it

[Pygmy]

If he does, so what ??

You can do that with two of the most classic and successful pump guns ever made, the Winchester M12 and the Ithaca M37....

[Tughill Tamer]

There are three things I look for when putting a scope on a slug gun. First off because of the relatively short range slug guns are used I want a scope with as big of field of view as possible. The lower the power the more field of view there is so I personally prefer a 2.5X, a 3X or a 1X4 variable which is plenty of magnification for typical slug ranges. Also because of hefty recoil I like a scope with long eye relief. You do not want a scope that has to be close to your eye when sighting through it with a heavy recoiling gun. Back when I worked in the gun shop the number one destroyer of scopes was a slug gun's heavy recoil, cheap scopes and slug guns do not go together well, buy the very best quality scope you can afford. My current slug gun wears a Leupold 3X.
Al

Thanks airedale lots of good points there to consider I will have to look into the Leupold 3x

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[The_Real_TCIII]

If he does, so what ??
You can do that with two of the most classic and successful pump guns ever made, the Winchester M12 and the Ithaca M37....

Ok I'm sorry I was just curious, and now Im going to try it. On your birthday

[Pygmy]

I  have used only 2 scopes on my shotguns over the years...Both were  early 1970s vintage El Paso steel tubed weavers, one in 1.5X and the other in 2.5X... Rugged scopes you could drive a truck over and they would still function.

In my opinion, a straight 4X, while being an excellent all around rifle scope, is a bit high powered for a shotgun being used in close cover..The lower powered scopes have a definite advantage at ranges of 100 yards or less, ESPECIALLY if the target is moving..

 

[Pygmy]

23 minutes ago, The_Real_TCIII said:

Ok I'm sorry I was just curious, and now Im going to try it. On your birthday

No, you're not really sorry...I'm going to call your wife and tell her she should spank you...

You can thank me later...