mossberge 500?

[mountainboy]

i just got this gun from paw inlaw.call yall tell me what i have ?so i can get some chokes for it if i want .  mossberge 500 24" barrel accu choke   -serial # p968917.  its a  fac camo finish. 12 gauge .thanks for yalls help

[bubba.50]

hey mountainboy, mossbergs use the same threads for their chokes as winchester &savage & several others. most readily availible there is i guess. in a month or two wally-world will have their spring gobbler stuff out. after the season some of them mark stuff way down. have bought them for as low as $5.00. don't know if this helps but hope it don't hurt. enjoy your gun and have a good'en neighbor, bubba.

[JPShelton]

Choke tubes for Accu Choke are the same as Gen 1. Browning Invector / Win Choke system.  You can get them easily on line from Briley or Carlson (makers) or a host of other places.

Otherwise, it sounds to me like you already know that you have a factory camo finish M-500 12 bore with a 24" Accu-Choke barrel, so why you do need anyone to tell you what you have?

[mountainboy]

ok accu choke ? is it a turkey gun or duck or any one type in pertickular .? ill do better next time.

[JPShelton]

ok accu choke ? is it a turkey gun or duck or any one type in pertickular .? ill do better next time.

I'm just guessing, but if it has a "normal" butt and not a "thumbhole" butt, neither duck nor gobbler will complain about being shot with it, and it should work nicely for both.  If you've got some kind of "thumbhole" stock, it might handle a little weird for shooting stuff on the fly, thus limiting its usefulness and making it a more specific turkey / deer type of gun.

My own cherished 500 isn't really -Its a 20 gauge New Haven (an m-500 with a single action bar), stocked from the factory with figured mahogany and, since '91 or '92, sporting a 24" vent rib Accu Choke barrel from a 500.  I shoot skeet, sporting clays, and upland game with it.  It was my first shotgun, which my dad bought for me when I turned 14.  I've cherished it for 31 years.  Shot the pee out of it, too.  Still going strong with plenty of life left in it.  I used to shoot ducks with it, back in my younger days.  I keep on using it because it is a light, fast swinging gun that (with the exeption of the plastic safety slide failing) has been 100% reliable.  It also patterns well and I like the ergonomics -the location of the controls.  It fits me really well and I shoot it really well as a result.  The action was slick when new and its only gotten slicker.  The thing practically reloads itself. 

Can you tell that I like mine a lot?

I hope you enjoy yours and if you enjoy it even half as much as I've enjoyed mine over the years, you'll think it is a fabulous piece of equipment, regardless of what anyone else thinks about it.

Happy Shooting,
JP   

[JPShelton]

ok accu choke ? is it a turkey gun or duck or any one type in pertickular .? ill do better next time.

I neglected to mention that the 24" barrel does kind of give the gun in question away as probably being intended as a turkey gun.  Waterfowlers tend to pefer longer barrels.  Duck, however, don't care how long the barrel of the gun was that they have just been shot with.

A lot of my own joy and happiness with mine stems from ditiching the 28" C-Lect Choke barrel it came with for a 24" Accu-Choke tube.  That sawp transformed my humble "farm implement" of a gun into a quick, responsive upland gun, so I like the handling with the short tube.  You might, too.

Happy Shooting,
JP