Purchased straight from the 3gungear.com website. Arrived in... 4 days? Maybe 5. One backer and two carriers was about $50 with shipping.
The fabric is heavy, thick, and sturdy. The stitching appears to be high quality, with thick thread. No fear of poor durability on first viewing and groping.
I cleaned the side of my receiver with Simple Green to get the oil off. At first I wondered if it would cause rust issues to clean all the oil off... then I remembered Mossberg uses aluminum alloy. ;-)
The velcro backer is held on with adhesive and die-cut for access to the pins. There is also a notch for the serial number, although it still obscures the serial number.
As soon as you pull the "wax paper" off the adhesive, you get hit with the smell. This stuff is clearly VERY STRONG adhesive. Apply carefully, and only pull off the paper enough to make initial contact, because this backer is VERY hard to pull off if you make a mistake.
The pins are still accessible, the serial number is covered. Not a big deal to me, it's not like I keep track of dozens of shotguns.
Placing the carrier on and filling it with ammo, I did find some issues with the rig.
I'm left handed, and I basically have to choose between the carrier rubbing my knuckle or lifting the carrier a bit too high on the velcro such that it flops around and starts to tear itself loose.
Even if properly set in place, I think I could shake the carrier loose of the velcro backer. It would, however, take a while and quite a bit of effort... so this isn't likely a big deal.
The carrier holds the ammo nice and tight. I really doubt I could shake the ammo out.
The extra carrier is strong enough to hang on my safe's carpet while loaded with 00buck.
The primary reasons I got this rig instead of the more expensive hard plastic ones are: cost, and I like that this does not require replacing pins or bolts in my gun in order to install. The less I muck with my guns workings, the happier I am.
Having owned it for all of a couple hours now, I'm quite happy with it. Money well spent.
The fabric is heavy, thick, and sturdy. The stitching appears to be high quality, with thick thread. No fear of poor durability on first viewing and groping.
I cleaned the side of my receiver with Simple Green to get the oil off. At first I wondered if it would cause rust issues to clean all the oil off... then I remembered Mossberg uses aluminum alloy. ;-)
The velcro backer is held on with adhesive and die-cut for access to the pins. There is also a notch for the serial number, although it still obscures the serial number.
As soon as you pull the "wax paper" off the adhesive, you get hit with the smell. This stuff is clearly VERY STRONG adhesive. Apply carefully, and only pull off the paper enough to make initial contact, because this backer is VERY hard to pull off if you make a mistake.
The pins are still accessible, the serial number is covered. Not a big deal to me, it's not like I keep track of dozens of shotguns.
Placing the carrier on and filling it with ammo, I did find some issues with the rig.
I'm left handed, and I basically have to choose between the carrier rubbing my knuckle or lifting the carrier a bit too high on the velcro such that it flops around and starts to tear itself loose.
Even if properly set in place, I think I could shake the carrier loose of the velcro backer. It would, however, take a while and quite a bit of effort... so this isn't likely a big deal.
The carrier holds the ammo nice and tight. I really doubt I could shake the ammo out.
The extra carrier is strong enough to hang on my safe's carpet while loaded with 00buck.
The primary reasons I got this rig instead of the more expensive hard plastic ones are: cost, and I like that this does not require replacing pins or bolts in my gun in order to install. The less I muck with my guns workings, the happier I am.
Having owned it for all of a couple hours now, I'm quite happy with it. Money well spent.
