hillbillychuck
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I have a Mossberg model 9200 that has black plastic stocks and is parkerized. It has a 18 1/2" riot barrel on it that is parkerized and has a modified choke. I have checked and this is NOT a jungle gun. It will accept 3" shells and I think it also has some slight internal variations to the gas system, don't know if the jungle guns were modified choke or not.
Anyway, I bought this gun used for home defense but I live out in the country so it mostly ends up collecting dust. Last year I started thinking about putting a rifled slug barrel on it so that I could use it as a deer hunting gun. Then this year I find out that Mossberg has discontinued the 9200 and no one is selling barrels for it anymore. I talked to the nice folks at the mossberg collectors assn and they told me that mossberg still has barrels, but they are selling first come first serve and right now I'm broke.
Would this gun make a good accurate slug gun? Does the fact that its an auto shotgun make it less accurate for shooting slugs than a pump? If it has acceptable accuracy is it better to get a rifled barrel with a scope mount attached or is it better to put a reciever mount on the gun? I would be shooting it with either a shotgun scope or a red dot sight on it. What about putting a reciever mounted scope or red dot on it and use the short modified choke barrel for shooting punkin balls? That would be an awesome treestand gun. If I get a rifled barrel for it I will be shooting sabot slugs in it.
Or should I just get a slug barrel for my model 500 and leave the gun as it is? It is a pretty cool little riot gun that shoots a load of #1 buckshot pretty damn far with that modified choke barrel. I can blow a flower pot away with it at 30 yards with just the bead on the front of the barrel and it feeds everything I've ever put in it and it has never malfunctioned (knock on wood).
Or should I just give up the ghost and quit trying to mess with a gun that I may never be able to get parts for again and sell the dang thing?
I'm asking y'all...What would you do if it were you?
Thanks,
Chuck
Anyway, I bought this gun used for home defense but I live out in the country so it mostly ends up collecting dust. Last year I started thinking about putting a rifled slug barrel on it so that I could use it as a deer hunting gun. Then this year I find out that Mossberg has discontinued the 9200 and no one is selling barrels for it anymore. I talked to the nice folks at the mossberg collectors assn and they told me that mossberg still has barrels, but they are selling first come first serve and right now I'm broke.
Would this gun make a good accurate slug gun? Does the fact that its an auto shotgun make it less accurate for shooting slugs than a pump? If it has acceptable accuracy is it better to get a rifled barrel with a scope mount attached or is it better to put a reciever mount on the gun? I would be shooting it with either a shotgun scope or a red dot sight on it. What about putting a reciever mounted scope or red dot on it and use the short modified choke barrel for shooting punkin balls? That would be an awesome treestand gun. If I get a rifled barrel for it I will be shooting sabot slugs in it.
Or should I just get a slug barrel for my model 500 and leave the gun as it is? It is a pretty cool little riot gun that shoots a load of #1 buckshot pretty damn far with that modified choke barrel. I can blow a flower pot away with it at 30 yards with just the bead on the front of the barrel and it feeds everything I've ever put in it and it has never malfunctioned (knock on wood).
Or should I just give up the ghost and quit trying to mess with a gun that I may never be able to get parts for again and sell the dang thing?
I'm asking y'all...What would you do if it were you?
Thanks,
Chuck