Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
03-04-2002, 07:13 PM
#21
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: whitney point new york USA
Posts: 110
RE: Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
Quilly,the 500 and the 835 have identical safeties.The 835 doesnt come with a rifled barrel it comes smoothbore with screw-chokes.The difference is chamber size.500=2 3/4 - 3inch 835 2 3/4-3.5inch.
03-05-2002, 04:00 AM
#24
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Newport News VA USA
Posts: 60
RE: Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
rochelle,
Thank you for giving me a straight answer and following with the question I asked. I said, forget about the 870, in one of the posts. Thanks for giving me the answer I was looking for.
Bubba
Thank you for giving me a straight answer and following with the question I asked. I said, forget about the 870, in one of the posts. Thanks for giving me the answer I was looking for.
Bubba
03-05-2002, 10:13 AM
#25
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Church Hill TN USA
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RE: Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
I have a Remington 870 Express Super Magnum, and I love it. However, my cousin, whom I hunt with alot has a Mossberg 835. He likes it very much. I have watched him down many a squirrel with it. I have noticed it didn't eject the shell a couple of times causing a click instead of a boom the next time he saw a squirrel. However, this could have been caused by not pulling the action back hard or far enough. I like his 835 very much and I think it would make you a good gun. I haven't seen a 500, but have heard they are good guns. Whichever you buy, enjoy it, Mossberg makes good guns as far as I'm concerned.
03-05-2002, 01:34 PM
#26
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: South Central Virginia
Posts: 116
RE: Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
My son has a Mossberg 500 20ga and has both the rifled barrel and the smooth barrel with interchangable chokes and it is a fine gun. He has taken everything from squirrel and turkey to deer with it.
03-05-2002, 04:38 PM
#28
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Southeast Wyoming
Posts: 14
RE: Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
What the heck, I will jump in here too! I have an 835 that seems to be a pretty darn good shotgun. Not real pretty, but goes bang every time, and ejects everything I shoot. I got a heck of a deal on it and have never ran a 3 1/2 inch shell through it. I really see no reason for the long ones, but am not a turkey hunter, and like my geese real close....
03-05-2002, 05:20 PM
#29
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mooreland IN USA
Posts: 37
RE: Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
I use my 835 for Turkey, geese, ducks and deer. I've only had one problem in 4 yrs. I pumped the forarm so hard I broke it in two pieces. I guess I got so excited at all the geese that were coming in I couldn't get the next shell in fast enough.
It shoots straight and is tough as they come for an all around gun.
It shoots straight and is tough as they come for an all around gun.
03-05-2002, 07:53 PM
#30
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Glasgow KY USA
Posts: 71
RE: Mossberg 12ga 500 or 835?
I can't speak for the model 500,but I use my 835 on every thing I hunt except for deer.These guys can talk all they want about mossberg but mine has been used in all kinds of weather and has never failed me yet.