Awesome and 101% perfect
I got my Mossberg 930 SPX in early 2010- Super Bowl Sunday morning actually.
In late 2009 and early 2010, the M930SPX was the hottest firearm on the internet... I had decided to start buying my own firearms and start my collection in fall 2009, had to do the long application process and got it all submitted in November. I was beginning to read forums and learn etc.. EVERYONE was talking about, raving and lusting over, begging to get etc the M930SPX. When I went looking for one, I was told on a Saturday that they were a POS, junk junk junk... what you (me) really want is this Benelli M2 Tactical. Oh and the Mossberg isnt legal in NJ because of the magazine capacity... and the Benelli is 2x+ the cost. Want it? LOL. I passed (although the M2 Tac was amazing.).
The NEXT DAY I went to a Dick's Sporting Goods across the river in PA to look for magazines for my new Remington 597 .22LR rifle... and as I am looking at a $899.99 M2 Field (which wasn't $1250 but also wasn't the Tactical...) the manager of the gun dept. says.. "You look pretty cool, look like you appreciate the good stuff, and would know what to do with this and care for this...lemme show you something in the back..." and comes out with a Mossberg 930 SPX. Literally, there must have been 200 people in the gun area (I couldn't believe how busy it was for Super Bowl Sunday morning..) and *EVERYONE* started shouting "LOOK WHAT THAT GUY HAS OVER THERE!!" The gun was amazing, people started demanding to be allowed to buy one too (it was the last one) and then they started offering the guy more money to take it out of my hands and let THEM buy it... he laughed at them THEN They tried offering ME money to hand it to them to buy, and when I got offered $200 I realized it was worth an instant purchase. The MGR assured me it was legal in NJ, no problems and 5 minutes later I was walking out with it.
I cannot stress how awesome it was... I got home and posted pics all over the NJ forums, and jealous haters started shouting how illegal it was and I'm so screwed (and by the way, where did you get it....?????) - I made the instant decision to order a new magazine extension, +1 instead of +3, and had it overnighted. Ever since then, this gun has been 1001% reliable, never one single malfunction or problem, and is the last firearm I'll sell. I collect combat shotguns now, and would probably take a different gun out in my yard or out in the neighborhood during a SHTF/TEOTWAWKI situation... simply because, the M930SPX doesn't leave my bedroom/bed area as it's the last thing I want in my hands if I'm making a stand and defending my dog and I etc.
Many other good guns out there- I am sure of it. And maybe the people who buy Benelli M4's for $1699 say their gun is "nicer" ... probably more refined and silky smooth, I agree... BUT, as far as a $600 hard as nails, perfect running combat autoloader, you cannot ask for me.
I have run an Aimpoint Micro R-1 for a few years (*AMAZING*) but then I decided, I didn't care for the XS Sights ghost ring sights on my 870- so I put the Aimpoint on that gun, and installed full fiber optics on the LPA Ghost Rings on my 930- so it's an amazing gun with LPA Fiber Optic ghost ring sights and hard as nails.
Sorry to post a long post but I want to make it clear- I love my gun. People have bashed the Mossberg 930 SPX and even Mossberg in general, and I am not callling them all liars because hey, maybe their luck is not as good as mine? But man, for them to have all these terrible problems, hard to feature for me as I got an absolutely PERFECT 930 right off the shelf of Dick's Sporting Goods.