Mossberg 583, my latest project

[Freezer]

This is the shotgun I referred to when I posted "I'm all choked up". This shotgun belongs to a hunting friend and he bought it just for S&Gs. It was badly rusted but for $40 he took it. After the trigger guard screw fell out he put it on the front porch where it continued to rust. When he gave it to me the first thing I did was to clean and inspect the bore, it was pristine. I then disassembled the gun and found the stock shattered. Stush Bubba had tried to refinish and repair this gun, There is a steel recoil shim held in place by the cross bolt to absorb recoil, it was missing. He had carved out the barrel channel 1/2' deep 1/2" wide and 4" long. The stock split and he tried to hold it together with epoxy. Stush had tried to refinish the metal and sanded some of the lettering almost off. He also lost the take down screw and replaced it with a hex head cap screw. I ordered a new take down screw and, trigger guard/grip and screws.

I threw the old stock away and used eBay to locate another stock only to find Stush Bubba is prolific. This stock had been refinished with spray on lacquer. It was thick and there were numerous runs. When they tried to remove the cross bolt it chipped the wood at the holes. Stush had a hose clamp around the barrel and stock that left dents near the schnoble end. I managed to remove all the dents but one that I decided to leave for history. The trigger guard screws were enlarged and needed to be drilled and plugged. The stock had a plastic butt plate but it was missing, The stock had a rounded butt to marry with the butt plate. As I worked on the stock I decided to cut it square and add a Decelerator recoil pad because a replacement butt plate was the same cost of a recoil pad and might not fit.

After removing the rust and prepping the metal I used Oxpho Blue and my heat gun with good results. The wood took some work but came out well after fitting the recoil pad. I used boiled linseed oil for the finish but didn't want to go too far because I want it to look like what it was, an old economy shotgun! After Stush Bubba lost the take down bolt he decided to remove the stud and drilled and tapped it to 5/16x14. I couldn't buy another stud. This took some thought but I eventually bought a 5/16x14 bevel head machine screw, put it in my drill and filed the bevel off the bottom so it fit flush with the mag cover and seated well in the bottom of the mag cover. After bluing, it doesn't look bad!

As I researched this gun I found they came with IC, Modified and Full chokes. The chokes are small and don't interfere with the pointing of the gun, If you remove the choke they were effective and accurate past 50 yards with rifled slugs making it a very effective efficient one gun does it all weapon. The action is a Mauser design. all and all not a bad shotgun at all! It was a fun and interesting project and the owner is very happy. I didn't charge for my labor and for $150 he has a very effective versatile, soft recoil, old shotgun for his kids.

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[Zee]

Nicely done!

[GrapeApe]

Great job

[Elk Creek]

That’s a great rescue! Nice work

[Freezer]

My butt is so sore from kicking it. I always wish I had taken before pics. You wouldn't believe the transformation. Someday I'll learn!

Note the slots in the top of the receiver, they line up with the bead and you don't see the chokes. Someone got this ol gun right.

This one was built between 1948 and 1952

[sakodude]

Very nice work again. You are truly a master at resurrecting the forgotten and abused.

[rberg]

Very nice!

[Bigslug]

That'll do!

"Stush Bubba"???

[Admin]

That is pretty cool. You used to see the bolt action shotguns all over the place, but I cant think of a time I've seen one for sale (in a shop) for the last few years.

[Gene L]

My BIL had one he got while stationed in Korea. I used to hunt with it, squirrels. I can't remember who made it, as I recall it started with :KK". It didn't have a safety on it, whether by design or if it fell off. I killed a lot of squirrels with it. A BA gun like your Mossberg would make an ideal deer gun.

[JunkCollector]

Nice save
I have to keep looking in my closet seems your on a roll with ones I have also.
This one's a 410
It was cheap because the stock was gross dark brown/black
Caked on stuff
I stripped it and was shocked at what was under it.

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[Freezer]

Yeap, that's a Mossberg. Does it have a poly choke or screw on replaceable chokes?

Stush Bubba..,.I grew up in this area, western Pa. I joined the Navy in the mid 70's. I was a Hospital Corpsman and so was my wife 13 and 15 years. She got stationed at Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, Oakland Calif. 20 minutes from where she grew up. We have both worked with and have a lot of respect for Marines which is why I can get away with my next statements. When I retired we moved back to my home area. I have tinkered with guns for 0ver 40 years and been remodeling houses almost as long. When I moved back here I continued both but was dumbfounded by some of the things I've seen done to both guns and houses. I began to think "Who could be this stupid? Not even a Marine is this dumb! Could it be Stush the Polish mill hunkie...or Bubba the redneck?". The more I saw I came to realize it was none other than the Marine Corps very own Pvt1st Class Stush Bubba the Polish redneck mill hunkie! He actually was a neighbor!

Windows cut into a house with no framing, exhaust vent not vented, 20 amp circuits sharing one neutral, guns without safeties, spray painted, rusted guns with mis matched screws, shattered stocks, missing parts.....In a garage apartment he had the gas water heater in the garage and built an insulated room around it. Thinking the exhaust gas would heat the room and keep the pipes from freezing, he didn't vent it outside. It didn't work well as evidenced by multiple patches on the pipes. The list goes on. So now, when I see this type of butchery I blame it on Stush Bubba!

[JunkCollector]

It has the screw on ones.
It's a full on it which is all I use in the 410 anyway.