Re: Mossberg 930 SPX with AFG
I have an AFGII on my Sig556 Classic and like it a lot more than I thought I would.
I toyed with the Idea of doing a very similar to OP's modification of the factory forearm, but in the end decided against it. Just because I decided that I'd want the internal nuts sunk flush into the interior surface of the forearm and I wasn't sure there was enough thickness in the forearm to handle stress or blows to the bottom of the AFG. I was also real concerned about screws backing out and releasing the internal nuts into the recoil track and really no amount of Lock-tite could make me totally confident that Murphy wouldn't pull that, right when I needed the shotgun the most.
As others have posted in this thread. I'm just not all that knocked out by the full railed forearms. Preferring instead that the shotgun be lighter and have faster pointing characteristics, rather than more railestate, than I'd ever use. That's just my personal preference. Many here have a totally different view of railed forearms. My view is "I'm carrying a semi auto shotgun, because I want to hit first and hardest in the close range envelope, where being on target first means survival."
I have an AFGII on my Sig556 Classic and like it a lot more than I thought I would.
I toyed with the Idea of doing a very similar to OP's modification of the factory forearm, but in the end decided against it. Just because I decided that I'd want the internal nuts sunk flush into the interior surface of the forearm and I wasn't sure there was enough thickness in the forearm to handle stress or blows to the bottom of the AFG. I was also real concerned about screws backing out and releasing the internal nuts into the recoil track and really no amount of Lock-tite could make me totally confident that Murphy wouldn't pull that, right when I needed the shotgun the most.
As others have posted in this thread. I'm just not all that knocked out by the full railed forearms. Preferring instead that the shotgun be lighter and have faster pointing characteristics, rather than more railestate, than I'd ever use. That's just my personal preference. Many here have a totally different view of railed forearms. My view is "I'm carrying a semi auto shotgun, because I want to hit first and hardest in the close range envelope, where being on target first means survival."