Well I sold it today.[:' (]
A gun doesn' t do much good unless you have somewhere to buy ammo for it. And when I did get ammo it didn' t pattern worth squat.

So I started working on my mossberg 500 12ga again. I stripped it down and cleaned it, fiddled with the choke, and changed the type of sling I had on it to one that doesn' t come in contact with the barrel. Then I patterned it again and it did much better.[&:]

I drew a 2-3/4" diameter circle on a target and shot it from 35 yards with #6 shot. I got 8 hits in the 2-3/4" circle. Is this a good set up? The pattern did seem to have more gaps in it than I would like but it seemed ok.