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    Shockwave Availability

    Wow, that is really encouraging. I hope it is sign that supply situation is getting better, and not just a fluke.
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    Shockwave Availability

    I've got a brand new in box genuine Mossberg 14" barrel you can have for a reasonable price if you want to roll your own from Frog Dog's or anyone else's PGO Mossy.
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    Legal carry

    Thanks, you too. Hope I can smash some pumpkins this weekend! I wonder if the mods will let me change my screen name to Smashing Pumpkins? It's a little more happening than MossBack, don't ya think?
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    Legal carry

    Frogdog, you gotta do you. But OP was asking about the legality, and nothing you said addresses the point I quoted from Mossberg's site about concealing the Shockwave violating the NFA.
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    Legal carry

    OK, Ima be the nonconformist and say "no, don't do that." Even if your state laws don't prohibit carrying it concealed, you have a problem with federal law. Here is what Mossberg has to say about it: Do not carry the Mossberg Shockwave concealed. If this gun is carry concealed, it would be...
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    Shockwave Availability

    Don't know where you live or what supply is like there. Pump actions are super hard to come by where I live. Finding anything at a pre-panic price is almost a miracle. Finding exactly what you want at a jacked-up price is not that easy. Finding exactly what you want at a pre-panic price...
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    Shockwave Availability

    ^^^^ Not sure where you are, but I just saw a posting on another forum that a local Big 5 sporting goods store had the Maverick 88 combo on the shelf for the pre-Covid price of $299. Kind of like winning the lottery in this environment! Definitely nothing like that online, but you might try...
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    Shorty Shotty Shooting Trap?!?!

    Ha! Our tastes run similar. I would take blued steel over painted aluminum any day. Been thinking about this Winchester 1300 project. Since I already have a "real" Defender, I was thinking of making the clone a little different. Maybe cutting the barrel to 20 inches instead of 18 and using...
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    Shorty Shotty Shooting Trap?!?!

    I'm warming to the idea of shortening the barrel on this Winchester 1300. Still kind of spooked about tapping barrel for chokes. Tool rental is ~$50 plus shipping, and if I screw up a barrel, replacements are not that easy to find at the moment. I don't have a lathe, and frankly, my...
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    Shorty Shotty Shooting Trap?!?!

    I never thought about doing it myself. The barrel is so thin, the diameter so large, and the threads so fine that it seemed like something best left to a professional. On the other hand, the cost of having it professionally done is huge in relation to the cost of used 28" or 30" barrels one...
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    Shorty Shotty Shooting Trap?!?!

    Yeah, I would love an 18 inch with interchangeable chokes and preferably a vent rib. I was feeling the lack of a choke the other day. I was using 7 1/2 shot out of a cylinder bore and I noticed a lot of my hits were not pulverizing the clays, but just breaking them into two or three pieces, so...
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    Shorty Shotty Shooting Trap?!?!

    Went to an outdoor range yesterday. They have facilities for everything, pistol ranges, rifle ranges, tin can ranges and manual trap, where you load a spring loaded launcher one clay pigeon at a time. Planned to shoot trap and pistol, but also threw my home defense shotgun in the trunk hoping...
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    Shockwave Availability

    I haven't. I plan to do an NFA AOW conversion on it, which will take a while. I don't expect to shoot it until I get the tax stamp and am finished working on it.
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    Shockwave Availability

    Loosehead, PM sent.
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    Shockwave Availability

    OP, due to my state's regulations I can't just buy a "real" Shockwave, have to have 18 inch barrel (Mossberg does make them in that configuration). I ordered an 18" Shockwave a the end of June. Guy in store said it would likely be November before it was in store. It arrived in exactly three...
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