Ever seen a Mossberg Bolt Action Shotgun?

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Shakey Yankee

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Found a Mossberg Bolt Action 12ga Shotgun at a gunshop. Didn't think to check the model number. Did a little research and am coming up empty handed. Anybody got any expirience with them? Comes with a scope and 1 mag for $200. Price is right, just don't need a lemon. Found this picture on the internet:
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They have been around "forever" built by Mossberg and Marlin. (I believe sometime in the 50s production started) I briefly had a Marlin that had been given to me that had a black plastic fold down forearm of all things... I think it was factory?... Back in the '60s/70s Marlin marketed one with a 36" barrel "allegedly" for geese, called the "Marlin Goose Gun"... Seems none of the engineers were "honest" enough to tell the "marketing" side of the business that after around 24-30" the gasses start to cool and in fact velocity suffers... And, regardless of where the choke is, it's still just a "full" choke... So, unless the geese were flying under 36" away from the shooter, where it was an unwieldy "club"... It has no use, whatsoever to have been made that long.

Later, in the 80s I believe they started selling a rifled version sometimes with iron sights and sometimes with a scope for deer hunting.

Mossberg also marketed some begnning about the same time, including at some point one with a detachable 5 shot box magazine for law enforcement use. The MArlins wre a little under $200 in the late 80s and were then all equipped with a "poly-choke" and the Mossbergs were a little over $120... This while pumps by them and others were $350 and up. SO, a shoter could get an inexpensive repeater for a bargain basement price... and American made.

The real drawback is that a .12ga shell just s too short and fat to work "smoothly" through a bolt action.

However, these were (and are) very serviceable, if not fast followup shot shotguns.
 
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I may be off here /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif but my first thought was it is a slug gun. They were getting all the press a few years back. I heard they were pretty accurate if that is what you’re looking for. I have no idea on price though.
 
I have a model 63T 20 gauge. It was my first gun bought in about 1978 for about $75 new. Carried it alot, shot it little and longed for the day a few years later when I bought an SKB XL900 auto that just smoked roosters.
 
Hey there Ranger Rick, it looks like a model 695 slug gun to me. Google it and look at the pics and see what you think, it's kind of hard to tell from the one you posted. There's a model 695 on the used rack here, they want $300 for it with a POS Simmons mounted on top. 'Course, the slug guns might fetch a little more up this way.

P.S. I'll call you this week as I MIGHT have a line on another clearanced out M1 Super 90....same/same as the 1 Mike picked up, same price as well.....IF he can get it. He couldn't find anything out yesterday, and today he is sippin' margarita's on a beach in Mexico for a week.
 
I would say BUY IT!!!!!! It is the 695, I have one that I had left over from the gun shop I used to own. We had taken it on a trade and when we closed the shop I added it to my personal collection. With 3" federal and 3" remington copper slugs this gun will shoot 1 1/2" - 2" groups at a 100 yards. (not to bad for a shotgun) I put cheap bushnell 4x scope on it and it's a pretty good shooter. I use it when I hunt a couple of areas where the shots are close and the brush is thick. Just my thoughts!
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Thanks Guys. It is the rifled bbl version. I had already talked my self into it. Just needed a push. I know slug guns are not "tac drivers", but I figured a bolt action with a rifled bbl would be better than a pump or semi-auto.
 
First real shotgun I ever owned was a Mossberg 20 ga. bolt gun. Magazine fed, plastic finger grips pasted on the pistol grip of the stock...buddy had one just like it in .410.
Mine had a long barrel and a screw on choke. In my much younger dumber days we did some experimenting in shotgun loading and pressure testing. That gun was "built to take it" as it launched all kinds of things down the barrel....alot of it didn't even look like lead shot.
 
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Thanks Guys. It is the rifled bbl version. I had already talked my self into it. Just needed a push. I know slug guns are not "tac drivers", but I figured a bolt action with a rifled bbl would be better than a pump or semi-auto.



I had one(Model 695), and went to sell it, and my oldest son
snapped it up. It is a tack driver. It was hard to measure
the groups, with mine, because it just made one BIG RAGGED
hole, with the sabots I shot out of it. The reason I went
to sell mine was I switched to a Savage Striker, which
is a bolt action center fire(308 Win) pistol, and is
legal, in our shotgun/pistol/muzzleloader zone. I rarely
carried the Mossberg after I purchased the Striker, so
I was looking to fund another project, and it went on the
market...Well is never made it to the market. Like I said,
my oldest son almost broke his arm reaching for his wallet
when I said I was going to sell it.

A couple of notes on this. First there was a recall on the
trigger, and Mossberg replaced a cheap plastic trigger
group, with a much nicer metal trigger group. Make sure
this one has been returned to Mossberg for the upgrade.
Slam fires are likely with the older trigger group.
And Mossberg still has magazines available for them.
Buy one NOW. And as a previous poster mentioned, feeding
square ended shotgun shells, may not always be smooth.
If you do not short stroke this shotgun bolt action, you
should be fine. I know in several cases, while shooting
at deer, another shell always made it into the chamber,
but on the range where I was being "soft" with the action,
it fed roughly a few times.

Good Luck with your 695. We have a number of fully
rifled shotgun slug slingers, and this Model 695 is
as accurate as any I have handled, and more accurate than
most.

Squeeze
 
Check the bore first. There are SEVERAL rifle sighted bolt action mossberg shotguns that were made for turkey hunting. Identical to the slug gun except for the whole rifling thing. The Choke tube would be a dead give away.

BTW, Wasnt it the Browning A bolt Slug gun and the Savage that were all the rage? Both had lugs on the front of the bolt, just like a real rifle. Man I remember thinkin bout all the deer I could stack If I could just afford either of those. Being young and working in a gunshop seldom left me with any sizable paycheck.
 
I have one in 20ga. It was my first gun that I purchased with my own money. I bought it in 1992 for $50 dollars off the used deal rack after saving for quite a while I was nine at the time so everything seemed like a long while. I still have the gun and it claimed a lot of first kills for me. I have lost the clip several years ago when lending it to a friends kid who dropped it in a lake while attempting to reload. They are a great gun as everyone else has said...
If anyone knows where I could find a clip for it I would be interested!!!
 
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BTW, Wasnt it the Browning A bolt Slug gun and the Savage that were all the rage?



Yeah, they were. The Savage is still out there, model 210 I believe. But the Browning was the one I regret not grabbing. They only made them for a few yaers, and for around $800.

Now if you can find one, they go for about 2k.

I run a deadly accurate Marlin 512. But it's a redheaded stepchild compared to the a-bolt!
 
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