A Mossy 590A1 is now mine!

I got my 590 with the ghost ring sight used for $250 several years ago. I had to buy a bayonet later, but got a case, sling and some ammo.

I'd say you did well.

You did really well. It will sell for that or more easily if you wanted to sell it. Nice shotgun too.

Does anyone have a picture of a 590 with a bayonet attached? Sounds kind of cool.

Nice purchase Route 66!

you did good! now do you want to sell it?

Good price on a good shotgun, now BA/UU/R....

Any suggestions with a milder load?

it's a pump, it's like Mikley from the Life cereal comerical "It'll eat ANYTHING"!! therefore....

if your Duaghter has never fired a shotgun before get teh lightest recoiling round you can, regardless fo payload. the one that comes to mind is the Winchester AA "low noise Low recoil" aka "featherlite" load. or AA128FL. these rounds are popular with the Cowboy Action set. because they make a light weight coach gun style SxS bearable. they make standard Dove & Quail loads look like heavy payload 3 1/2" mags. in a gun like a 590 they'd probably be like shooting a .22. now they ARE a bit pricey compared to some other loads, but if your looking for soft recoil they are the way to go.


for HD loads, it's still what you feel comfortable with. but for various reasons (including the advice of one friend who's a ER/trauma nurse and one who's a senior LEO and therefore both see what works/has what effect ect.) i personally won't dismiss good ol' Birdshot as a viable load. you ever see what the aftermath of a close range D&Q load hit looks like on an x-ray? some folks who see that image in a regular basis call it "a lead snowstorm" . birdshot has a tedency (at HD ranges) to enter the body through a single large entry (cup style wads actually tend to cause a secondary, shallow, entry wound) and NOT exit, dumping all the energy into the assailant/thief/home invader. the internal trama from one not to mention multiple such shots will most likely stop anyone in their tracks. plus i'd rather have to clean up blood stains that to have to go looking for anything that went through the jerk, and/or patch my walls.

66, the lightest,cheapest loads you can find are what's needed for first firings both of the weapon and the shooter. Look for something like 2 3/4 dram, 1 oz 12 gauge "Field" or "Dove and Quail" loads.

Review the floaters about proper mounting and so on. Take things one little step at a time.

And have fun, folks who have never gotten used to the shotgun have NO idea just how much fun they can be. Water jugs are nice, I suggest being at least 10 yards back. Watermelons are fun too.

Nice shotgun. Enjoy.

Looks good...I am on my way out the door to give my check to my friendly ffl for mine. It was shipped yesterday. I got the A1 with Ghost Ring sights..now I have to figure a way to get the mosssberg heatshield on it....any ideas?

Heatshield

It's not really, necessary, but it is bad-***! Since you don't have ghostring sights, all you have to do is remove the front sight, slide the heatshield on, and put the front sight on.

I found a thread on the Ar15 board. He got the heatshield on but it's hard and scratched the barrel.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=1&t=167964