well to be fair...winchester did this as well for a while. and if this one had been soldered it would have been safe, it just got skipped somehow. but how many got skipped? the barrels in the mossbergs are made by er shaw, so not cheap barrels anyway, and they usually shoot well.
i just thought you might wanna see this. i was going to buy one but i am not sure i want to now. do i really want to roll the dice...
-Matt
From a bad experience I never purchase Mossberg products,my shotguns are remington 870 & 11-87 ,winchester mod 12; rifles ;sakos & tc encore rifles,garand,ruger.
Good decision. I've said this before... there simply is no reason to own a Mossberg product. Better guns can be had for the same budget price. You've listed some of them.
Couldn't disagree more, owned several 500's, 835's, and a 9200(big POS that one) in various configurations hunting deer, turkeys, pheasants and small game, no experience with waterfowl, maybe that's your major hang-up with them. Never had jamming issues with them running slugs or shotshells thru them. The only problems with them was the plastic tang safety that would split in the screw hole, but I loved the safety located there. They have a price point that has introduced a lot of people to hunting, can't really make a silk purse out of that sow's ear, but something that was such a poor a product would not stick around for as long as they have. I think a lot of kids have been started on 20 guage 500's.
In pumpguns, I have also owned (3) 870's and a couple BPS's. 870's were ok, like the Wingmaster version a lot, just didn't use them so they hit the road. Finish on the BPS's was excellent, better than any of the others and shot well for me, however, I don't know whether I was short stroking them or what,but I could jam both of them with the ejection and loading from the same port. Like I said, not sure how, but it happened so I didn't keep them. I don't see any BPS's used or new in shops around here. They seem to sell a lot of Benelli autos probably an equal amount of Novas and 870's with Mossbergs making up the difference in pumpguns.
Having said all that, I don't own a Mossberg now as I don't hardly use a shotgun anymore and don't need to own Mossbergs anymore,have an older wood-stocked Beretta 390 that doesn't see the light of day very much as it is. I have looked at an 835 with the tactical stock for coyotes, but still like rifles more for that purpose.
