Mossberg 500 JIC Just In Case Shotgun

[dondavis3]

I know I'm a little late to show.

But I've just heard of the Mossberg 500 JIC Just In Case Shotgun .

It comes in different flavors.

1. the Mariner - which is stainless
2. and the plain black model.

Does anyone have any experience with either of these shotguns?

 

[gunnut44]

I don't have the JIC, but I do have a 500. I bought it new with the wood stock and forearm and I believe a 28" bbl and it has the high gloss blue. I bought all the "taticool" accessories here in the wtb section and a 18" bbl at cabelas now I have the best of both worlds hunting gun and hallway clearer, unless you want the case I would just buy a standard 500 and trick it out yourself probally even be cheaper.

 

[dondavis3]

+1 gunnut44

I agree with you.

I could do as you did, but I'm not looking for another hunting shotgun.

This would be a bury it in the backyard or in the attic emergency gun.

Kinda a last resort gun with emergency equipment packed with it.

 

[peyton]

I have used a mossberg 500 for 20 years. Have you ever shot a pistol gripped 12 gauge? The quality of the 500 is outstanding. I think the stainless version would last longer in storage.

 

[DeadWhiteGoose]

Hey, the JIC series best attribute is that the cases float and are watertight. I've got a Mossberg 500 Tactical Cruiser with the pistol grip and I love it! The recoils a little tough but I've practiced enough to handle it. Pretty good with the hip shot now. I like the JIC series only for the case but it's true, you can trick out a 500 for a little cheaper and get the heavy walled barrel or 590 mag tube. Just do some research.

 

[mm6mm6]

I'm pretty sure Mossberg 500s are completely interchangable. If you buy the least expensive model, you can change everything else on them.

However, Mossberg does have some new 2011 offerings that are pretty impressive.

Here's their latest tactical 500 with an M4 style stock that holds extra rounds, a ghost rear sight with their orange front post, and a tricked out tri-picatinny rail forearm for lights, lasers, and vertical foregrips.

The 930 semi-auto tactical has a fantastic LPA rear ghost ring sight and a super easy to see fiber optic red front sight. Recoil with slugs and 00 buck in the semi-auto is easily manageable.

The 500 kicks pretty hard with slugs and 00 buck, but that's the nature of the gun. I shot a slug out of my pistol grip only Mossberg 500 once. Once.

 

[wheelgun28]

Heres a really bad picture of my Mossey

I bought this new around 1988, it had decent looking wood that I have put away. I added a Knoxx recoil absorbing stock, a Houge rubber fore grip and a OEM Mossberg heat shield.

Its got the light weight18" barrel and smaller magazine tube (5?). The only sight is the front bead more or less. The stock can collapse from where it is in the photo.

Its pretty compact, few parts to snag on blankets, curtains, clothes etc.

I can shoot 3" OOB all day, less recoil that shooting clay with an 1100.

Yes this does defensive duty, it works for me

 

[venomballistics]

I have one of the old 8 rnd riot guns.
despite its aluminum receiver, sometimes looked upon with suspicion over the Remington 870's steel, it's held up though a round count that should have choked it at least twice. It has only failed once under the extreme conditions of "combat skeet" (you dont call pull, you call "hurt me" and the sky turns black with clays). the failure was due to powder fowling from the 1400 rounds before the jam. A shot of WD 40 and she was good for another 200 and probably beyond. a good proper cleaning set this straight for the next great firearm related punch drunk.
So figuring it'll need a cleaning for function after 1000 rounds or so ... that pretty much covers any red dawn scenario with an extended evasion period with daily engagements. at which point you can ditch the empty ammo wagon and make a proper escape without the radio flyers chronic wheel squeak.
Or it could just mean you dont have to worry about at all since the above just isnt going to happen.

 

[GatorFarmer]

A piece of PVC pipe with endcaps glued on and one of the ten dollar survival kits in a can would seem to amount to the same thing. If you're going to bury it or stash it, I'd suggest adding a full stock gun. Pistol grip shotguns, particularly with a breaching bbl fit, are rather specialized in terms of what they are good for.

If you are determined to have a gun in a box to stash, Sigmas used to come with quasi edible coast guard rations as an option.

 

[Maximumbob54]

I won't buy another Mossberg product since I found out mine had the butt stock screw over torqued from the factory so bad that it stripped the aluminum threads. I had a helicoil put in and I was warned that unless I have the receiver re-anodized that it likely won't hold. But I guess I'm the only guy this has ever happened to since they sell about a million of them and the Win 1300's were aluminum also. I'm all about steel now. I bought an Auto 5 and I may get a Rem 870 for a pump.