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Everything old is walnut again

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Last week, everyone decided that Mossberg shotguns– which generally were sold with wood furniture throughout the 1960s, 70s, and early 80s but switched to synthetic stocks almost exclusively somewhere around the Clinton era– are better off in the original format.

First was the 590 Shockwave “Nightstick” model, priced at $539 MSRP, which is about twice what the standard Shockwave runs. Apparently wood isn’t cheap:

(Mossberg)

Then came Black Aces Tactical’s offering of birdseye maple and walnut furniture for the same gun as a $199 aftermarket option (on a $250~ firearm):

(Black Aces)

And Mossberg expanding the walnut versions to the 590A1 Tactical and 500 Persuader line of actual shotguns:

(Mossberg)

Now this is an AOW I could get behind

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I’ve always thought that the best shooting auto-loading shotguns for the money were classic (1950s-80s) Remington 11-48s/1100/1187s.

A 1951 ad showing the then-new 870 pump side-by-side with the 11-48. Note the similarity

I have a vintage Wingmaster 1100 that has always delivered when it came to dove hunts (a September ritual in Mississippi) and once-beautiful 11-48 that has seen better days and I have since been repurposed with a shorter barrel, tac stock/furniture, and WML as a home defense gun– and will just chew through buck and slug all day.

Well, with that in mind, Eric Lemoine with Black Aces has been busy showing off a few of their hacked semi-auto AOW Shockwave builds. The 4+1 capacity vintage Remmy 1100 has been chopped down to bite-sized and tuned to run just fine with a foot-long barrel and a Shockwave grip.

“All that means for you is a $5 fee for your Form 4 and a little bit of patience,” Lemoine says.

Black Aces upgrades the piston assembly and lifter latch spring; adds new seals and does some other black magic to get these old duck guns to run short and lean for a price of $949 plus stamps– less if you have your own gun for starters, a concept that may wind up sending my beater 11-48 in for a morph.

More in my column at Guns.com

 

BAT brings it for Shockwave fans

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Black Aces Tactical just dropped a limited run of 6061 T6 Aluminum Quad Rails for the Mossberg 500 series of 12 gauge non-NFA regulated Shockwaves.

I have to admit, they are pretty sweet, although they allow a compact 26-inch, 5-pound scatter gun to become awkward and overweight again if you aren’t too careful! I must say though, I am reviewing Remington’s version of the Shockwave, the Tac-14, and I do find myself wishing BAT was making one of these rails for that crowd pleaser.

The 411 on the rail here

 

Put a Saiga Mag on Your 870 or Moss 500

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Black Aces Tactical has done it again by listening to the marketplace and giving the shotgunners what they want– a retrofit kit that will enable your humble Remington 870 or Mossberg 500 to accept detachable box magazines. Not only is this not just a theory, it’s a reality and they are selling them now.

Shotguns are not new. They have been around for hundreds of years, it’s just that in the past century, or so we have decided to increase their magazine capacity. Early shotguns were single shots, with the double barrel being brought on the scene to increase magazine capacity by 100%.  In the late 19th century, the first tubular magazine shotguns came out. They allowed faster follow-up shots as well as being more tactically sound in a combat situation. Today almost every serious rifle in the world uses detachable box magazines– so isn’t it time that the shotgun caught up with the times? Black Aces thinks so.
Read the rest in my article at Firearms Talk.com

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