ghost tracker

When you pistol grip a Mossy shotgun, it puts my thumb wayyy too far away from the tang-mounted safety. Your results may vary.

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paul45

To change an 870/1100 to left hand safety cost about $15 for the part and about 10 minutes. I am left handed and I have the mossberg, the 870 and a 1100 set-up for personal defense. Easy to use and easy to get parts / accessories.

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Shadowsbane

If you go Mossberg. I believe the 590A1 should be the preferred option. Better parts, and quality control. Sort of like the difference between the 890 express verses the police models.

The 590 I believe is basically just a 500 with a bayonet lug.

BTW: I am lefthanded and my wife's 20 gauge 500 works pretty well for me. But, there is a certain appeal for bottom ejecting that one can't ignore.

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SIXTO

not really.

The 590 uses the Remington style barrel mounting, a heavier barrel and is generally built a bit more robust. The finish is also a heavy duty parkerizing. It was aimed at police and military buyers vs. casual homeowner type of buyers.

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USPnTX

You should also look at used Ithaca Model 37's. Bottom eject and great shooters!!

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Shadowsbane

I was under the impression that was the A1 model. That is incorrect?

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GHFLRLTD

To everybody who commented. I appreciate all of your input regarding the BPS High Capacity and the Mossberg 590. I know what I need to know to make the choice, when I get the chance.

I also want to thank those who passed info on about the non-tang safeties of other guns. I did not know that the safety could be flipped, and will keep that in mind if I acquire one.

Given my experience of over 45 years with tang safeties on double barrels, I would avoid the learning curve of the non-tang safety. I know that under stress I would like to fall back on training.

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SIXTO

Yes, the items I listed are standard 590 things. The A1 has the military spec park job, all steel parts (trigger housing) and the bayonet lug. It also gets an even stronger barrel mount.

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Shadowsbane

Very cool then. Thank you.

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sav

I would get the BPS. When I was buying mine, my instructor told me that Mossberg and Remington could be accidently overloaded and jammed, but Winchester 1300 and BPS couldn't. Winchester has long been discontinued, unfortunately. As for direct chamber loading, the professionals, I was told, were trained not to use it for the consistency of operations.