10 Truths About Your Mossberg 500 Most Owners Never Know

10 Truths About Your Mossberg 500 Most Owners Never Know 🔗 THE BENCH BOOK + 2 TOOLS → https://dylanbenett.com A man named Dale Whitaker carried a Mossberg five hundred into the shop last spring, laid it on my counter, and told me he wanted to get rid of it before it got somebody hurt. He is sixty eight. He bought the shotgun new two years ago, the week after a house down his road was broken into in the middle of the night. He told the salesman he wanted something for the bedroom closet, something simple, something that would work. He walked out with a Mossberg five hundred and a box of buckshot, and he put it in the closet and felt better. Then his grandson talked him into taking it to the range. Three things went wrong that afternoon. First, he loaded it the way he had been shown and it would only take a few shells, nowhere near what the box said. Second, after he loaded it, the slide would not move. He pulled on it so hard he thought he would break something. Third, when he finally got a shell into the chamber and fired it, the shotgun twisted out of line, the shot went well left of the target, and his wrist ached for a week. His buddy at the range told him the magazine spring was worn out. A man behind the counter at a pawn shop picked it up, worked the slide, and offered him ninety dollars cash for it, because, he said, these cheap pump guns wear out. Neither one of them was right. There was nothing wrong with Dale's shotgun. Not one thing. Every problem he had that day came from something about the Mossberg five hundred that nobody had ever told him. So that is what we are doing today. Ten truths about your Mossberg five hundred that most owners have never heard. Two of them cost nothing to fix. One of them might change where that shotgun lives in your house. And number one is the thing I noticed about Dale's shotgun before he even set it down. I can usually spot it from across the counter, and you will be able to spot it on your own gun in about ten seconds once you know what to look for. I am Dylan Benett. I run the service bench at a gun shop, so I see shotguns after something has gone wrong, and the Mossberg five hundred comes across that bench more than almost anything else. It may be the most common pump shotgun sitting in American closets, and that is exactly why so many of its owners are working from a little bit of bad information. Let us get into it. Number ten. The letter after the number tells you what you own.