This is a fine load for personal defense, home defense, and for defense against most animals. The reduced recoil slug breaks at 1,150 fps. Each uses the Fiocchi Aero 7/8-ounce slug. Many professionals, believing it to be more effective than buckshot, prefer the slug. These slugs are more accurate than any I am familiar with. The Aero slug features an attached wad that makes for excellent flight characteristics. Fiocchi offers a wide choice in their proven Aero slug. This is an ideal load for personal defense in the home.Īt longer ranges-beginning at 15 yards-solid shot is a viable choice. This load makes for less recoil and holds a dense pattern to 10 yards and an acceptable pattern to 15 yards. Double aught buckshot is a decisive defense load.
Moving to defense loads, I chose the Fiocchi reduced-recoil buckshot load. The Mossberg is smooth, very smooth, and the shotgun fed, chambered, fired, and ejected a box of light loads without any problems. A good field load such as the Fiocchi 7 ½-shot load is ideal for practice with low recoil. I tested the Persuader extensively with a good range of shells. The shotgun is also handy as a truck gun. This makes the shotgun ideal for clearing the home with careful movement. The Retrograde Persuader features an 18.5-inch barrel. Using the proper technique, riding out recoil as the muzzle rises, while working the action to the rear, then moving forward with the action as the barrel comes down in recoil, excellent speed may be demonstrated. When the action is cocked, a lever near the trigger guard is pressed to unlock the action to unload the chamber or rack the slide and load an empty chamber. This is one nice looking and effective 12 gauge shotgun! The Mossberg features a tang-mounted safety that is friendly to both right and left-handed shooters. The serrated wood offers an excellent gripping surface. The forend is a good tight fit to the action rails. The Mossberg 500 retro shotgun works great and it is nice looking. The furniture of the Maverick is a bit loose, and it isn’t the smoothest shotgun, but it works. The Mossberg Maverick line, as an example, features plastic furniture and isn’t pretty. Cutting corners to lower the price point doesn’t always mean reliability is sacrificed, but the most expensive and labor-intensive fit and polish will be sacrificed. There is an ongoing competition in the firearms world to supply the most bang for the buck. The first thing we notice is the deep, rich blue finish and top quality wood.
The subject of this review is the new retrograde Mossberg 500 12 gauge Persuader. One of the most proven shotguns in home defense, police service, and even military service is the Mossberg 500. While there are shotguns with ghost ring sights and the like, the simple bead-sighted shotgun cannot be faulted for defensive use. A simple front bead is used for aiming.Įnsure you learn to properly manipulate the shotgun with a long press to unlock and a solid action to lock the chamber after the shotgun is loaded and ready for action again. Shotguns have been used in police service for decades with a spotless record for reliability-so long as the user doesn’t short cycle the action. The shotgun has a natural point that makes for rapid hits in fast moving situations. The pump shotgun is reliable in action and doesn’t depend on perfect maintenance for reliability. Only a suicidal adversary would be willing to face a determined homeowner with a pump shotgun at the ready. The sound of the action being racked has been known to send a chill down the spine of the toughest miscreant. Load the magazine, actuate the bolt release and rack the forend to load a shell into the chamber. There are other types, including the double barrel and self-loading shotgun, but none feature the simplicity and reliability (under adverse conditions) of the pump-action shotgun. The pump-action shotgun, with under the barrel magazine, has been the best choice for personal defense since about 1893. At home defense distances, a load of buckshot makes a ragged rathole that will anchor man or beast decisively. A 12 gauge shotgun will repel boarders like no other firearm. If you are serious about defending the home, the first choice is a shotgun. Fiocchi offers several different power levels of 7/8- and 1-ounce slugs. Retro guns are popular and this one has the look and feel of an older shotgun-the quality appearance.
In my opinion the new Mossberg is better finished and tighter than the original. The piece is back as a highly finished retrograde shotgun. A number of years ago Mossberg offered a short barrel, pump-action shotgun known as the Persuader.
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