I have a steel choked barrel for the Mossy M835, but have never fired it. I did buy a couple boxes of 3 1/2" shells for it with #2 steel shot, having fired none of them. The rifled barrel sits on the gun. Nice to have a 12 bore rifle. It likes 1 ounce WW @ 1,750fps, or the Gualandi 496gr. DG Slug @ 1,610fps. 2" groups at 30yards, elbow rest with either of those. I like full bore sized slugs and they do shoot quite well in the Mossberg.
Just remembered, I used to tell my riot squad boys, "if you don't have 2 to 3 empties in the air at the same time, you're not shooting quickly enough".
Our M870's had 20" bl.s and a 7 round magazine tube(with extension). On the course of fire, moving from barricade to barricade, constantly loading and shooting: Pause - "how many rounds in your gun?" Answer "whatever" then "Prove it" & make him unload to prove how many. It was stressful training, but fun - especially to watch the blunders, then more training to correct. Model 12's are slick, that's for sure, but- I could not shoot one as fast as the 870 or Mossy. Back in the 70's I had a "Sears" JC Higgens with vent rib & that was the first one I learned rapid fire with. It was a fairly skookum shotgun, weighing about 8 1/2 pounds. Timing is everything as the trigger must be slapped AFTER the slide is locked. With the Model 12, you could hold the trigger back and just work the slide. I just couldn't hit as well when using the Winchester. With the recoil, the slide comes back and gun recoils up, shoving the slide back, brings the gun down onto the target again and slap the trigger, work the slide etc, etc. With the O/U, SxS or Semi-Auto, the gun recoils up and you must pull it back down and re-align with the target, whatever it happens to be. The pump-gun is actually faster - with proper training. Without training in speed shooting, is is quite slow. boom, chook---chook -- boom, chook---chook--boom. The speed saying that, is what most non-trained people do with a pump when shooting quickly.
_________________ Best Wishes Daryl
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