Show Us Your Weapon of War: Mossberg M590A1
Dan Zimmerman
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Yow. That looks like it’d hurt at both ends.
I’ve tried a couple pistol grips on my 870. The Hogue Tamer is the only one I’d ever use again. It actually mitigates recoil enough that you can shoot it more than a couple times. A stock is always preferable though.
Nice trench/home defense gun. A shotgun might be the most useful tool for many if not most of us.
Nice shotgun.
I sure wish all of the 12 gauge options were available in 20 gauge. After all, when we are talking about home defense, what can you do with 12 gauge that you cannot do with 20 gauge?
Couldn’t agree more. Spread and range are important when hunting, but largely become irrelevant in self-defense at room distances. One of our wall-leaning guns is a Mossberg 500 all-purpose shotty in .410, which we load with buck. I think it’s 000 buck, currently, but sometimes 00. It’ll hold up to 3″ shells, so you’re looking at five or six nice sized shot per shell, roughly the diameter of a 9mm bullet. That’d be really nasty, but still provide easy follow up shots for a defiant invader or his accomplices.
I bought my Daughter a 20 gauge and ammo. Choice of ammo at stores is less than 12 gauge. I was thinking of getting a 20 gauge for myself, but I think I will stick with 12 gauge.
“……choice of ammo is less than 12 gauge.” You get the understatement of the year award. Years ago, I looked into getting a 20 gauge, then I saw (or didn’t see) the ammo options and quickly nixed that idea.
Yeah, weapon of war on your hand….
Exactly. I know someone who has permanent hand damage from firing fifteen shells from a pistol grip mossberg. I shot one four times, never again.
Looks handy for close encounters.
In case you can’t nuke it from orbit.
Game over, man. Game over!
“In case you can’t nuke it from orbit.”
It’s the only way to be sure.
Without the furniture, erratic shooting results. Never liked these type of guns.
Nice rail on top.
For what, exactly? Gonna mount a scope?
A budget red dot and / or a light…
Pump Shotguns should be fired from the shoulder, as God and Browning intended.
Yeah. I can’t decide which is dumber, an AR-15 without a stock or a shotgun without a stock.
A shotgun. The AR is jus inaccurate, the shotgun is dangerous to the shooter.
I have a pump with forward pistol grip and a wire folder, never had any trouble shooting it with the stock folded up. Friend has a mossy with a folder and no forward grip, I don’t recall having trouble with that either. Not that it is an ideal way to shoot, but we all tried them just for s’s and g’s and nobody was any worse for the wear.
Needs more chainsaw grip.
Folks, unless the sole practical purpose of your shotgun is to be used as a breaching tool, put a stock on it. Pump shotguns are great, but two of their major downsides is that they are relatively (to a semi auto) slow to rechamber a round, and are slow to reload.
Both of those negatives are increased in severity with only a pistol grip. Rechambering and accurately firing that next round is much slower without a stock, and so is reloading the gun.
Yep.
If you’re too much of a he-man to actually shoulder a shotgun, then you can shoot from the hip. At the very least, a stock can be adorned with a sleeve to hold extra ammo, which you’ll probably need after you miss.
I would get this gun just so I can say that Fortune personally oversaw it’s construction.