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While at my last range trip and after cleaning, I discovered how much I truly love my Mossberg 500. I've got the 18.5" cruiser model w/ pistol grip (pics to come), but was thinking about modifications.

I'm thinking about putting a different stock on it, either a regular full stock or a full stock w/ pistol grip. Searching around revealed no way that I could tell to get a longer magazine tube and a slightly longer barrel (I realize I would have to replace both, but a 20" vent rib and 7 or 8 shot tube would be great), but 5 rounds is acceptable considering I'm not exactly going to be kicking down doors and taking out b/gs with it.

I'd just like to see some pics of what you all have yours set up like, and I'll see if I actually want to change anything on mine, or leave it stock and save for something else (benelli M4 comes to mind).
 
My HomeLand Security Shotgun setup...

Maverick 88 w/18-1/2" barrel, standard stock. Extra barrel in pic is the original 28" mod-choke plain, for use as the Woods-N-Water gun.

If you have the standard Mossberg 500 (5+1 capacity), yes you would need to swap the mag tube, mag spring, and barrel, and also the "magazine cap", where as the 5+1 models have a captive screw that holds on the barrel.
 

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don't have a photo, but i didn't want to see you left hangin' !!
i'd say a year ago, i got one of the 500's , the 8-shot one with the pistol grip (which i never intended to keep on it) parkerized finish,heat shield, for something like $240. a couple months ago i got one of the full-stock-W/pistol grip units from CDNN,but didn't really like it and got lucky and traded it to a buddy with a 590 for his original synthetic stock, which is exactly what i wanted !! dumb luck,that !! i keep meaning to sling it up,but that's not the most pressing thing.....would you believe i've never fired it ?? one of these days.......:D
 
My main duck and goose gun. :D It's been fired way more'n once over these 20 years and has drawn plenty of avian blood. It ain't pretty, all business.

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very unartistic

Here's how mine looks now:

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The original forend busted shortly after I bought the gun so it now has the one seen here (from Choate) and the folding stock is a Knoxx copstock, which frankly wasn't an upgrade -- in my estimation my accuracy dropped 20% as compared to the original plastic. I may end up removing the folder but it is handy for transportation in cramped spaces (like the cargo area of a Cessna 172). It isn't as useful as it looks though... the loop of wire sticking up when it is folded makes for a surprisingly awkward lump.

It did make the journey from California to Texas mostly "ready to use" in the bag from my Martin Backpacker guitar -- that's an argument for folding.
 
Is there any setup where I can get a 20" barrel and magazine tube that goes all the way to the end?
 
I'm Kind of..........

...........interested in that switching out a five to an eight. Has anyone done this? Anything else needed besides the tube and possibly another mag spring? I have a Mossy 500A with a 24" smoothbore slug barrel that I've been thinking about changing around some.


Kevin in Pa
 
KevininPa:

You will also need a barrel specifically for the 8-shot models. Look at the pix that marclbucla & I posted...his is the 8-shot, mine is the 6. The 8-shot has the 'barrel/magazine attachment thingy' right at the end of the barrel, while the 6 shot is much closer to the receiver

Although, by the time you buy all of that stuff, you are close to the price of a complete new "Security" [8-shot] Model Mossberg/Maverick.
 
Just sell it and buy a 590 if you want firepower. The magazine does unscrew, though, but might have to chuck it in a soft vise and use a strap wrench on it first time. But, you can buy the barrel and mag parts and install 'em, but I'd just sell it and buy a 590 if that's what ya want.

Five is too many for me. I have a plug to restrict my capacity to 2 rounds in the magazine, by law all I'm allowed. I use a coach gun for home defense, two is enough. I hit what I shoot at. A human, even moving, is hard to miss compared to a dove or a duck or even a clay target. I just don't see the need for firepower.
 
Here are photos of one just like mine.

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Thanks Foghorn & McGunner

Not something I really feel a great need for. All this Mossberg talk was just putting me in "tinker" mode. Like you McGunner, I have a coach gun in the closet. My house has so many turns and angles that I appreciate it's shorter length more than having more rounds. Think we covered this a few pages ago while discussing Spartans. Thanks and have a good day.


Kevin in Pa
 
I like having an 18.5" bbl, and 5 rounds is very much enough to do any serious work. The only reason I want 8 with a longer bbl is for entertainment purposes at the range. There's something wonderful and fun about peppering a paper target at 25 yards and watching the target flap back and forth from the blast.
 
Ah, remember the conversation Kevin. :D

I like having an 18.5" bbl, and 5 rounds is very much enough to do any serious work. The only reason I want 8 with a longer bbl is for entertainment purposes at the range. There's something wonderful and fun about peppering a paper target at 25 yards and watching the target flap back and forth from the blast.
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Can't compare to a clay vaporizing from a good hit, or even better, a duck folding in a cloud of feathers and hitting the water with a kersplash as the lab waits his command. Ah, I love the onset of fall. :D
 
a duck folding in a cloud of feathers and hitting the water with a kersplash
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I did that with the first dove of this season. It was a satisfying shot, but it was also somewhat disappointing to see the dove float away in the irrigation canal.:D
 
While it doesn't say "Mossberg" on the gun, it's a Mossberg at heart. It's a "Sears" model pump gun made by Mossberg. I got it in 1976, and it's dropped a few deer in it's time. It came with a 28" mod. barrel, and 24" slug barrel and cost $99.00.

Not a very good picture, but a darn good gun.

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