Mossberg 500 20 gauge?

[nkhunter]

My newly expanded family (wife and step son) is in the market for another slug gun to add to the arsenol. We already have a youth H&R Sidekick .50 and I also have a beretta pintail to compliment my savage slug gun. I was thinking something along the lines of a mossberg 500 with the cantilevered rifled barrel with a scope. Does anyone have any experience with these? What kind of groups can be reasonable to expect with a decent scope (leupold, nikon, weaver) and a good marksmen with these new whiz bang super slugs? (lightfields, sst's, partitians?)

[Huntsman1]

Hi there. I have the 500 w/cantilever ported fr bbl. in 20ga. I've only fired the Winchester 2.75" BRI sabot slugs so out of it so far and had 3 holes touching at 50yds, I've since purchased a Lyman sabot slug mould and will do all my shooting with these style slugs as I found them to be more accurate. I fired some Remington All Copper sabots too which grouped nice but were higher on paper and more expensive which is why I will stick to casting my own. This was done witht eh Bushnell 3-9x32 scope that came with it. It definitely would'nt hurt to switch optics.
Good Luck

[nkhunter]

That's pretty good shooting, I doubt you will find any ammo to improve on those groups. If I remember correctly the BRI's are very light recoiling also? THat might be just the ticket for starting the wife and kids out on.

[Huntsman1]

The ported barrel helps reduce the recoil too but of course much LOUDER 

[GLHolmes]

Unquestionably, the Mossberg 500 is the best quality for the lowest price.  I've got the 12 guage 500 with cantilever barrel; still working on sighting it in, but it shows good promise with Hastings "Laser Accurate" magnum sabots.

[spikehorn]

 My son has one and it is shooting the rem solid coppers into a clover leaf at 75yds with a BSA 1.5-4.5x shotgun scope. It didn't like the hornady sst.