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Author Topic: Anyone Shooting a Mossberg with 18.5 in. Barrel  (Read 2056 times)

Offline Bayou Gold

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Anyone Shooting a Mossberg with 18.5 in. Barrel
« on: May 21, 2019, 10:56:47 AM »
I have a 510 Mini Bantam that my boys rarely use these days, and I am considering adding pistol grip stock, but curious how it will pattern with such a short barrel...

Has anyone hunted with or even patterned this setup?

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Re: Anyone Shooting a Mossberg with 18.5 in. Barrel
« Reply #1 on: May 21, 2019, 12:02:28 PM »
Search Mossberg 510 in the OG search bar, about four pages of 510-specific information you can quickly scroll / read through.  :icon_thumright:
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Re: Anyone Shooting a Mossberg with 18.5 in. Barrel
« Reply #2 on: May 21, 2019, 03:55:35 PM »
 Much obliged

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Re: Anyone Shooting a Mossberg with 18.5 in. Barrel
« Reply #3 on: May 21, 2019, 04:02:25 PM »
I'm shooting a 20 ga. Super Bantam with a 22" barrel, and IC .555 with TSS 9s in a 2.75" shell.
"A quality paddle caller will most run itself.  It just needs someone to carry it around the woods." Yoder409
"Sit down wrong, and you're beat." Jim Spencer
Don't go this year where youtubers went last year.
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Re: Anyone Shooting a Mossberg with 18.5 in. Barrel
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2019, 04:09:55 PM »
I used a 18.5" barrel on my 870 20 gauge with handloaded tss #9's the 1st year I loaded my own and it delivered excellent patterns and I killed my limit in Tn. Shots were from 20 to just a touch over 45 and all were clean kills, best I remember my 10" counts were in the 320 /180 range, I was using a Indian Creek. 555 BDS choke.

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Re: Anyone Shooting a Mossberg with 18.5 in. Barrel
« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2019, 04:04:55 PM »
I found a Moss berg 500 20 gauge turkey thugs edition in a pawn shop for $300, so I am going to leave the mini bantam as is for my boys to use dove hunting instead of converting it for turkey only