Despite my opinions about the MVP in .223 Remington, I think the folks over at Mossberg might have a winner on their hands with the new .308 version. There’s a market for a ready-to-go magazine fed .308 Win rifle, and the MVP fills that niche quite nicely. The gun ships with a 10 round Mossberg magazine, but can also accept DPMS magazines and Magpul PMAGs.
There are three versions of the gun shipping: the varmint, the patrol, and the FLEX. The varmint is the standard version, the patrol is a shorter black version and the FLEX uses the FLEX accessory system to allow the shooter to change out the stock at their leisure. Chris Dumm loved the FLEX system and says it works great even after hundreds of rounds downrange.
The prices are going to be $897 for the varmint and $966 for everything else. Steep, but cheaper than Ruger’s magazie fed .308 offering.
Way overdone! I mean, you can only put so many layers on a cake. This thing looks like three dozen cake bakers all trying at the same time to make it look pretty.
Speaking of unicorns, I was in my LGS the other day and saw 3 unicorns. 1 Keltec KSG, 1 UTAS Shotgun, and 1 RFB. I debated for a good 20 minutes on buying one or the other of the shotguns…. The price to own such gun would have been 1500, which is far too much for a pump action shotgun regardless of how many shells it holds.
I know I’m late to the party, but I’ve owned a fair number of 1911s. Some of them did exhibit problems. There was a Springfield Milspec with a badly cast extractor, which comes immediately to mind.
None of them exhibited problems in the first 2000 rounds, though. Even that shitty cast extractor took longer than that to fail.
Maybe I’m doing something wrong. (“yeah, using an outdated design,” hurr hurr)
My current 1911 is a 2011 production Colt O1991, almost bone stock except for Hogue grips and a Colt arched mainspring housing swapped on, and an 18.5 pound recoil spring. I am willing to bet my life on its reliable function, and further believe that with a Chip McCormick 8 round “Power Mag” full of .45 ACP +P 230gr Ranger-T hollowpoints plus a ninth in the chamber, it will permit me to solve any tactical problem that is susceptible to solution with a handgun, and that if I fail to do so, it will be due to lack of skill, coolness, or resolve on my part, not any design shortcoming.
Any body know how many sub2k in either 9’s or 40’s or PMR’s they actually do make in a week/ month.
So they come out with a PMR rifle now what.
Economics 101
Demand exceeds supply/raise price/increase profits/ invest profits in increased production/ loop until unity.
Now which should I wish for (but can’t get), Sub2K or PMR rifle?
Bummer. I saw the episode where he toured the factory, and had a hankering for one.
Are they next to kel tec?
Maybe a bad influence?
“… but can also accept DPMS magazines…”
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Speaking of…
That is a nice looking rifle. The stock doesn’t do too much for me – looks like stained beech, or some other furniture grained European hardwood. If it was a nicely figured walnut or maybe maple, it’d be much prettier – and more expensive. A rifle like that may well deserve putting a custom stock on it.
Definitely. But the difficulty in restocking it is the requirement to perfectly install the square block in the stock by the first lug.
Very nice, but for now I think I will need to be happy with my Model 70.
I just don’t get the whole “View” thing. In photos it looks like the gun is missing a cover plate. Maybe IRL the shiny clear plastic makes it look more like it has a real cover rather than missing a part.
I’m sure many, like me, have a passing interest in the internals of a revolver. But this is no 17 jewel mechanical time piece. A “View” for dealers to show interested buyers makes sense, but if I were to spend $300 on a revolver I won’t want a plastic cover.
Well, that’s… something.
Hope someone wouldn’t be trying to use it in the dark, covertly. Getting shot because the screen on your phone flashlighted your face while you were trying to find the bad guy would suck.
Want, as soon as NFA drops a hearing protection device as being some evil enchanted item.
Another rifle with a matte black finish, not polished and blued properly. That’s a shame again.
I’m guessing upon closer examination of this system that the action does little more than hold the bolt in loose formation with the rifle whilst the user is racking the bolt back and forth. I’m guessing that the bolt head locks into the rear end of the barrel and not on anything in/on the receiver proper?
That must be a real thrill to machine inside the rear of the barrel…
Here’s the real news an sti with out a billboard the size of Clintons forhead and bits that don’t look so sharp you could shave a perfect curl off of ice
Wow! I lived less than 1/2 mile from the STI Factory for more than 3 years and never even knew they were there. Great little back-road for cruising on my 1100cc Shadow. Wish I had been more alert to their existence back then… would have stopped in and looked around (assuming they would have let me). Oh, well. Guess I will just have to make a stop next time I am in town visiting family and friends.
can’t help but think of the movie escape from l.a.
this is about to happen to us in a few decades if those POS kalifornians start migrating
I called and spoke with a Sig rep yesterday and they said the P250 mags and P320 are NOT interchangeable. However, these are the same people that said you can’t use a compact slide and barrel on a subcompact grip….which is what I carry…
He also told me there are no plans to discontinue the P250. Geeze, talk about a mind blow.
Just bought mine,7.62 NATO $609
I have seen at a Cabela’s they have a DPMS 308 that is stamped Hog Hammer. All I can find is a comment on AR-15.com from DPMS stating that they made a limited amount of these for select Cabela’s. I am not able to find any other info on them. Does anybody know about these? Thanks
GOT MINE IN 308 BACK IN MARCH AFTER A FOUR MONTH WAIT BUT IT WAS VERY WELL WORTH THE WAIT. WITH THE LEAPERS SCOPE , WINCHESTER 168 GR. MATCH BULLETS GROUPING AT 125 YARDS PRONE POSITION 5 SHOTS MEASURED IN AT JUST BARELY OVER 3/4 IN
My only concern is the bolt handle. It will get longer so I don’t hit the scope with my fingers. Otherwise I love this gun. My normal kick around the desert gun is still an old SKS.
I just put an MVP patrol 7.62 on layaway for $378 after taxes. I feel like I’ve hit a major jackpot.
Possum855, where did you do that?
NE TX area. It was technically a “used” gun, but the previous owner never fired it in the 2 weeks he owned it. Bought it, got chewed out by the Missus, then brought it back.
I just got a MVP in 7.62 x 51 very disappoint in how loose PMag fits. Mossberg should be ashamed of themselves. I like a fix if there are any out there. I read that some is going to make a metal magazine well that might solve the problem. Has anyone found a fix?