{"id":28,"date":"2006-12-16T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/consumermaven.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/16\/shotgun-mossberg-m590-a1-12ga\/"},"modified":"2020-01-04T19:02:24","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T00:02:24","slug":"shotgun-mossberg-m590-a1-12ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/2006\/12\/shotgun-mossberg-m590-a1-12ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotgun: Mossberg M590-A1 12ga."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mossberg<\/a>If you think bigger is better, you’ll love shooting\u00a012-gauge, which is\u00a0.72 caliber, and which\u00a0is so ubiquitous that ammunition is both cheap and plentiful.\u00a0 And if you’re going to get only one 12-gauge shotgun, get\u00a0the $500 Mossberg M590 (Model #51663).\u00a0 Everything on this gun is\u00a0Military-spec, built to last and keep on working.\u00a0 As many GI’s can testify, this is a shotgun you can take to war and back.<\/p>\n

The beauty of a pump-action shotgun is its simplicity and reliability.\u00a0 Malfunctions are hard to induce yet easy to clear (usually by just turning it on its side and racking the slide as hard as you can).\u00a0 They can take\u00a0a lot of neglect and keep working.\u00a0 I opted for the variant with “ghost-ring” sights, which stand up from the line of the barrel, but which I have found are rugged and don’t really get in the way of anything, yet enable accurate shooting at longer distances.<\/p>\n

This shotgun has a 20″\u00a0barrel (shortest legal barrel length is 18″) and\u00a0the largest possible magazine in its frame, capable of holding eight 2.75″ shells.\u00a0\u00a0It does not have a tight\u00a0choke\u00a0like sporting guns (which constrain the spread of the shot to keep the pattern accurate\u00a0at longer ranges), but I have still taken it trap shooting and been able to reliably dust clay pigeons.\u00a0 If you only keep one gun in your home for defense, this would be the one.\u00a0 After all, as any defensive firearms instructor will tell you: The only reason to keep a pistol is to fight your way to\u00a0a rifle or shotgun.\u00a0 And\u00a0given the hazards associated with overpenetration in a residential setting, a rifle is not something you would like to have to\u00a0discharge in an emergency.<\/p>\n

Theboxotruth.com features excellent penetration tests and anecdotes<\/a>:\u00a0 Even small caliber handguns can penetrate every wall in your house and keep going into your neighbors’,\u00a0but buck shot will be stopped by a few walls.\u00a0 Birdshot, for example, turns into a relatively harmless hail of BB’s after 70 yards or so even with no barriers.<\/p>\n

If you do want to reach out and touch something at a distance, rifled slugs can be\u00a0accurate out to\u00a0100 yards against man-sized targets.\u00a0 With\u00a0my M590 I chronographed Wolf Performance Rifled Slug ammunition —\u00a02.75″ shells firing\u00a0a 1 ounce slug (that’s 437 grains!) — at 1390 fps (with a stdev of 21 fps).\u00a0 Those were relatively easy to shoot.\u00a0 If you really want to hurt your shoulder or impress your friends, pick up Winchester Hollow Point Rifled Slugs.\u00a0 I chronographed them at 1490 fps, but they are so painful to shoot I wouldn’t recommend them in this gun.\u00a0 (Maybe in a good\u00a0semi-auto where the gas system can absorb\/dampen a lot of the recoil.)<\/p>\n

One last feature of 12-gauge guns: You can pack a lot of interesting loads into the shells.\u00a0 Hi-Vel has a number of examples<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you think bigger is better, you’ll love shooting\u00a012-gauge, which is\u00a0.72 caliber, and which\u00a0is so ubiquitous that ammunition is both cheap and plentiful.\u00a0 And if you’re going to get only one 12-gauge shotgun, get\u00a0the $500 Mossberg M590 (Model #51663).\u00a0 Everything on this gun is\u00a0Military-spec, built to last and keep on working.\u00a0 As many GI’s can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[46],"tags":[63],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arms","tag-pump-action-shotgun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po3d1-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1731,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/1731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/david.bookstaber.com\/Interests\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}