Mossberg 500A

You can buy the gun new for 299 or so... so 150 is a good deal. If you want a 28" Ribbed gun.
Yes, you can get the barrel for it, and extentions and all that... but if you want to do that, go buy a 590... Unless you want to get nickled and dimed.

The Mossberg 500 has a mag tube unlike many other shotguns...you can't easily add an extension, you have to change the whole mag tube itself. Plus, I don't like the way the barrel attaches to the mag tube on the 500. I'd just go with a 590A1, with the ghost ring sights. You get the extended mag tube, a metal safety, a bayonet lug, parkerizing, a thicker barrel, and a more convential barrel attachment. Plus, the Marines use it, so it's pretty badass.

$150 is slightly too much for a used Mossberg. Although the magazine tube is something you could change yourself (unlike a Remington), you'd be better off buying a new one in the configuration you want.

David

The Mossberg 500 has a mag tube unlike many other shotguns...you can't easily add an extension, you have to change the whole mag tube itself. Plus, I don't like the way the barrel attaches to the mag tube on the 500. I'd just go with a 590A1, with the ghost ring sights. You get the extended mag tube, a metal safety, a bayonet lug, parkerizing, a thicker barrel, and a more convential barrel attachment. Plus, the Marines use it, so it's pretty badass.

$150 is slightly too much for a used Mossberg. Although the magazine tube is something you could change yourself (unlike a Remington), you'd be better off buying a new shotgun in the configuration you want.

David

Thanks guys

I think I'd just get the 18.5" for $70 if I went that way.

$209 NIB at Academy for a 500 Field. 150 is a bit steep. Esp when it'll cost you 100 in parts to get a 8 shot capacity. I got an 870 (and a job incidentally) at a local pawn shop for $150. A hack saw, $20 limbsaver and a $40 choate extension later i have an 18" riot gun with a 7 shot cap, and im in it less than 2/3 an 870 police. plus I dig the wood stocks over synthetic. I'd look around some. Several good ole used shotty's can be had for under $150.

Ah, you can easily add an extension to the Remington 870.

I didn't say you couldn't. I said you couldn't easily change the magazine. The magazine tube itself can be unscrewed and replaced with another by an end user. The same isn't true of an 870.

David

Ah, you can easily add an extension to the Remington 870.
I didn't say you couldn't. I said you couldn't easily change the magazine. The magazine tube itself can be unscrewed and replaced with another by an end user. The same isn't true of an 870.
David

Are you sure about that? I've never tried to add an extended mag to an 870, but I have taken a magazine extension (factory) off of an 870 and replaced it with a standard mag cap with no modifications, and I have seen a sack full of 870's with after market extended mags. I thought most of them were just screw on replacements.

Never mind - I totally misread what you wrote.

Now that I understand what you were saying, yes, you are quite correct.