Is Mossberg a quality shotgun?

[Bacpacker]

Some folks swear by Cummins, I've just always had better luck with CAT engines... that 470hp CAT 3406E was a good motor, mine would pull a grade as well as a 500, lol. Great on overall fuel economy too, the 500s, 550s, etc, all sucked fuel like it was going outta style. I liked that 470 CAT, it was a good motor, fairly easy to work on too...

Cats were the best. Most costly too. Cummins were much better than Detroit, less costly than a Cat. Good compromise.

 

[Wingnut]

Yeah, the CAT name tended to jack up the price... but I was a company driver at the time, and that assigned truck was rigged with the CAT. The truck itself was an International (another middle-of-the-road make) and it only had a 'Straight 10' transmission, but the truck had a double bunk sleeper and it only had 11K miles on the odometer when I climbed into it, lol. Barely run in, ya might say. I had a lot of good times in that truck, and the long runs we made with that particular outfit were moneymakers. My favorite run was a 6000-mile triangle from CA-PA-GA-CA, 21 states in all.

P.S. If I were to buy a truck today, I'd want a CAT motor with a 13-speed transmission, that would suit me just fine...

Edit: We'd better get back on topic before Supe gives us grief, lol... Mossberg shotguns & big trucks don't mix! Come to think of it, most big trucks would make poor choices for drive-by shootings: "0 to 60 in half an hour!"

 

[Supervisor42]

Edit: We'd better get back on topic before Supe gives us grief, lol... Mossberg shotguns & big trucks don't mix! Come to think of it, most big trucks would make poor choices for drive-by shootings: 0 to 60 in half an hour!

I was actually going to go in the other direction.
Being a degreed diesel-mechanic, I worked on every one of those.
Each one had its strong points and it's weak points.
Example: The Detroit was a very old design that dates back before WW2.
Good = No moving part actually touched the block or head so if you didn't let it freeze or throw a rod, they were infinitely rebuildable.
Bad = They put a lot more carbon and unburned fuel into the engine oil than others and needed it changed more often.
(See, even I can go off topic )

 

[dademoss]

Cats are best.

Oops, not a diesel cat.

 

[Magus]

Every thread in here is off topic, nobody minds or cares, we're country folk, it'll get back where its going after we talk about our coon dogs and crops a bit. LOL

 

[Tim Horton]

No one has mentioned it... But at a time I had some experience with the Winchester 120 series of pump shotguns... Now I believe that is the Savage 320 model ??

My experience was they were a strait forward, good working arm... However when they needed attention for a deep action cleaning and the like they were a bit more to work on than the Mossberg 500 or Remington 870... Your experience may be different...

 

[Magus]

I inherited a nice 1200 from my dad, I hated it, if I can't work on it, I don't own it.. I put it on a gun collector friend as it was a mint 1968 in the original Alligator case. All it brought was a lousy 250$. It was a pain in the a$$ to strip.

I thought the Savage looked like a Winchester.

 

[Chesney Richardson]

I have a Mossberg 12g I inherited from my Dad, by far the best shotgun I own ad I have...a couple....or 5