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I don't recall if I'd posted this on the old site or not, but even if I did I know there were no pics because I hadn't taken any of my new Mossey yet. Last year, well before my layoff, I'd gone out with a good friend to shoot some skeet. Now the only shotgun I owned at the time was my Mossberg 590, and with a 20" Cyl. bore barrel, you can pretty much guess how poorly I'd done.

On the second and third rounds, he let me borrow one of his Over/Under, (O/U) shot guns, and I actually managed to take my fare share of clays. After that I saved up and later pulled the trigger on a Mossberg Silver Reserve in 12 ga.

She's a beauty and has some passable looking engraving on the frame. Made in Turkey and imported, I paid about $600 and it came with a full set of screw in chokes.


It had a pair of Improved Cyliner chokes in it, and in the case came one each of, Full, Modified, and improved modified, chokes, and the junky little flat T wrench for changing them. The T wrench is pretty crappy and hard to use but Mossberg doesn't make a nice crank type wrench, SO, I picked up a good Remington wrench and used a small die grinder to remove 2 of the teeth and it now fits perfect into my Mossy chokes.


At any rate, I took it out to try our hand at sporting clays a few months ago, and kept the factory set chokes in, (Improved Cyl in both barrels), and using the stock single bead sight, and out of 100 clays, managed to down about 17. That's pretty good for me, but I wanted to do better, so I changed out the chokes to a Modified and an Improved Modified, and picked up a better Fiber Optic Sight.

This is what it looks like when shooting.


This weekend I went back out with Paul, and we gave Sporting Clays another go. This time I got up to 27 out of 100. So I am quite pleased with the results, now I just have to practice.

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I've considered putting a front sight like that on my Mossberg 500, but never pulled the trigger, so to speak. Aside from it's visibility, which is obviously excellent, what do you think of it?
It's just magnetic, right? It's secure? Recoil doesn't move it around? It doesn't fall off when the gun get's knocked around?

So far so good. It is held on with a series of 3 rare earth magnets, and a small pair of clips that keep it centered on the rib. Rare earth magnets are super strong and rarely slip, even if you want them to. I've had it in and out of the soft case a dozen times and that sight has not moved at all, however it does require a good vent rib to grab on to. What I'm really looking for is one that also has a Fiber Optic rear sight that gives you a 3 dot sight picture.

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Slow is Fast, Fast is Slow
Violence may not be the best option, but it IS an option