Author Topic: Mossberg rimfire (Read 845 times)

daddywpb · « **on:** October 23, 2005, 10:55:54 PM »

Anyone know anything about the new Mossberg .22 'Plinkster'. My wife won one at a raffle. Seems to be a nice little fun gun. Stock is kind of short, trigger is horrible and there doesn't seem to be anyaftermarket stuff available. Functioning was 100% though.

armory414 · « **Reply #1 on:** October 26, 2005, 02:35:32 AM »

It's a $90 gun at Wally World. I'm really surprised that Mossberg put their name on it. I haven't shot one yet, but by looking at it I don't think it will compare to the Mossy's of old.

TeePee · « **Reply #2 on:** October 26, 2005, 03:51:58 PM »

Had to take my car in today on a recall didn't take long so went to Gander mtn after that. You know make use of the time scence I was in town. Happen to pick up one of those plinksters just to look at not buy. Looked ok for a $90 gun. With out comparing though it seemed ,as far as the reciever and bolt goes ,a lot like a model 60 Marlin. The stock and barrel being different .

popplecop · « **Reply #3 on:** November 05, 2005, 09:27:21 AM »

I'm old enough to remember when Mossberg made some nice, accurate reasonablly priced .22s. I won one of the new ones, gave it to a Grandson that wanted it. I think Mossberg goofed on this one, not very accurate, may be 1" at 25 yds from a rest.

JohnW · « **Reply #4 on:** November 09, 2005, 02:01:56 PM »

Here in the UK this model is sold under the name of Magtech made by CBC.
As there was some speculation of semi-autos being banned rather than purchase a Ruger I opted for the above - 124 pound here with x2 mags. I have put at least 3000 rounds through it and can count the misfires, jams etc on one hand. 1 inch group at 25 yds no problem (rested) :wink: - OK its no tack driver but its reliable. I recently shot my friend's Ruger 10/22 this has been tricked up slightly ie. trigger job, better this and that. My groups were slightly better, yes, when it didn't jam.

fat tony · « **Reply #5 on:** November 15, 2005, 05:22:57 PM »

About 30 years ago, my dad bought one of these for my brother, he didn't want it not being a gun kind of guy at the time, so my other brother got it. I sort of inherited it though. It's not bad for a gun that was bought for about $10.00 CDN at the time. It does not have a serial number anywhere on it, this was legal at the time, still is, It will give reasonable groups at about 50 yard, enough to be able to take small game. I made a mess of the trigger though, I thought I would improve the trigger by shimming the trigger group so the sear lowered somewhat. At full cock, the gun would not go off when banging the but hard against the arm of a sofa, but the safety notch was disabled, the striker would drop in the safety notch. Live and learn. I'm going to have to get more parts from it and send it to a gunsmith for a trigger job. Original trigger was horrible at about 10 pounds, the sear was pivoting in an arc, shoving the striker back. I guess the only way to do a trigger job would be to have a smith change the angle of the cocking piece notch.

ironglow · « **Reply #6 on:** November 29, 2005, 10:46:34 AM »

Saw it in the rack at Wally World...if I were interested in such a .22 auto..I'd put about 18 more bucks down and get a Marlin # 795..