Mossberg Silver Reserve

[FirstFreedom]

Any good at all for it's low price? Turkish made. What do you think of the overall fit, finish, materials, trigger pull, patterning ability, etc.?

[jaymce]

Firstfreedom,

Quick review :barf: :D

I had a SR about a year ago now, bought in Oct gone by end of Dec. I kept it for about 3 months and shot it about 1200 rounds. Check Shotgun World for info. Condensed version goes like this:

Upon purchase follow recommendations and de-bur the gun, remove extractors and polish/ remove rust, clean and lubricate all moving parts. Gun cleaned about every 100 rounds.

400 rounds, lower barrel stops working. Fix, shave hammer to allow firing pin to contact shell primer .30 off from top to bottom.

800 rounds lower pin brakes, Fix, replace pin, Mossberg takes 3 weeks to send pin. While waiting for pin to show find hammer strut rod is bent order one of these and it shows up in 3 days? Parts sent for free. Started looking for a new gun.

1000 rounds new gun. 1200 rounds MSR gone.

I had the sporting gun and believe that for an extra couple of hundred $ the offerings from Lanber or Fausti etc are a much better value. Better yet find a used B-gun (Browning/Beretta/Wetherby, etc) I know of 2 other MSRs and 1 of them has a broken lower pin. Some say that the pin problem has been cured, but folks keep on complaining about broken pins, so?

[Davis]

A decent field gun, but not suitable for competition. If rabbits and grouse are your game, then it probably will do just fine.

Davis

[UGH]

I bought one and I'm sorry I did. I ended up selling it and bought a browning Citori. Save your money and get a better gun. These foreign made Mossberg's are junk.

[classic095]

I have three of them in my shop now, awaiting firing pins.. All three came from the same range, this makes a total of 9 that the firing pins have broken while at our trap range..

[Davis]

Again, these are good for field work but not the trap/skeet ranges. Folks buy them for competition and are not satisfied. The firing pin issue is supposed to be fixed now on the current run of Mossbergs - which by the way are the same as the Stevens 512 other than cosmetically.

Me, I have a Savage 333 (Valmet) and am more than pleased with mine. It cost the same as the Mossberg and, while used and 30 years old, is an excellent shotgun.

Davis

[jaymce]

I believe that most who buy this gun are not buying it because they think it is a competition grade shot gun. I believe most buy it because it is cheap and are hoping to get a few years out of it and make sure they like the sport prior to laying out 3+ times the cost for a good gun.

I do not know what the general consensus is on high volume shooting but I do not believe that 400 rounds between problems is high volume. Perhaps I am mistaken. Of the other 2 I know of one of them has problems and I see that gun about 2-3 times a year on the trap field for 50-75 rounds an outing.

The Stogers that the club lends out work flawlessly despite there reputation. When I bought the SR I expected the same only a litter higher quality in the finish department, certainly not Browning/ Berreta and up quality, but a nice looking shotgun that could be used for a couple of years not a couple of months.

I would guess that others who have been wronged by this gun feel the same as well. I ran a poll on another sight asking for those who owned SRs to chime in failure/ no failure and brief story. Not may hits so far, but it was about 50/50 last I checked as to whether folks got a good one or bad one. Not very good odds if you ask me.

[UniversalFrost]

glad I read this thread. had been looking at getting one from big 5, because it fits and feels good for me. certainly not as good as my citori, but still good.

I guess I will keep looking and maybe get an old SxS H&R I saw so I can take into the deep brush down here for grouse, quail and rabbits.

JOE

[classic095]

I shot skeet with a Stoeger Condor Deluxe for over a year and never once had a problem with it. One of the 4-H kids I teach had his father buy it from my last year and he shoots skeet with it every sunday and he also has never had a problem with it..:D