I have finally managed to get my hands on an original heat shield for the 590A1 (Mossberg article no 16335P). Happy, happy, joy, joy!
Now, when sitting here and eagerly trying to install it, I come to the chilling conclusion that the heat shield is only installable if you remove the from sight, since you're supposed to slide the heat shield on to the barrel from the top down. I have the ghost ring model, with the front sight soldered (or something like that) onto the barrel. I guess it takes a blow torch and a good amount of hammer blows to get that sucker off .
So, have anyone installed this kind of heat shield on the ghost ring model? Is it doable to pry open the heat shield so that I can drop it over and onto the barrel, or would that ruin it?
Now, when sitting here and eagerly trying to install it, I come to the chilling conclusion that the heat shield is only installable if you remove the from sight, since you're supposed to slide the heat shield on to the barrel from the top down. I have the ghost ring model, with the front sight soldered (or something like that) onto the barrel. I guess it takes a blow torch and a good amount of hammer blows to get that sucker off .
So, have anyone installed this kind of heat shield on the ghost ring model? Is it doable to pry open the heat shield so that I can drop it over and onto the barrel, or would that ruin it?