OK. Yes it is UGLY, but maybe part of that is because it's based on one of the best looking guns ever (I'm talking about the Winchester 94 of which the Mossberg is more or less a general clone). When I consider the number of 94's that have been barn guns here in New York that I've known about, based on what used to be cheap price, dependability, reasonable power, and ease of getting into action, consider for a moment the advantage of being able to EASILY connect a good light and any one of a number of other potentially helpful items to a gun like this, and the forend, while overdone - how many connecting surfaces do you need exactly? - really makes logical sense, if not aesthetic sense. Same with the adjustable buttstock, depending on time of year around here, the ability to add or subtract an inch or more of length is profoundly useful. Addressing coyotes hitting the sheep at lambing time in the spring and later in the summer (the first coyote officially shot in New York was by a person I knew who kept sheep, and was shot while pulling one down at the back part of the pasture. The Conservation officers told him that as far as they knew, he was the first...) is benefitted by a "normal" length of pull, while running out the back door at 0 degrees or less would make a shorter length of pull a blessing with a heavy coat. Lest you wonder how problematic this is, let me just say that a neighboring county - once boasting the greatest number of sheep operations in the state at last check had NONE as a result of financial loss due to coyote problems. They've tried llamas, donkeys, both of which apparently attack the coyotes when they attack the sheep, but a member of my church has had their best luck with a pack of huge white dogs, the breed of which escapes me at the moment. Add to that the growth of cougar sightings in the state and the fact that bears have become commonplace (I have a friend who started onto his back porch and went out backward carrying a box, to turn around and discover that the black animal sleeping by the dog dish wasn't his big overweight lab, but a 600 pound black bear which was later live trapped and moved, and eventually shot when it came back the third time) makes having a gun like this, ugly as it undeniably is, a really viable option as a nearly perfect tool. Combine that with the problems of owning semi autos that exists in some places in the country, and I bet they sell these things like hotcakes. If they don't, it won't be because they aren't useful and well designed but because, DANG they are UGLY! I may start saving my dimes and nickels.
Jamie
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