Get the Maverick over the Chicom 870 clone.
^^^^ THIS!Get the Maverick over the Chicom 870 clone.
check on shotgunworld.com. there are people regularly looking to get rid of their maverick foreend for a mossberg 500 foreend.yeah i am pretty much decided on the maverick 88. i would like to put a side saddle shell carrier on but the stock forend interferes. mossberg 500 forend doesnt fit without me getting the whole assembly. how hard would it be to trim the forend and how bad would it look? thanks
not bad at all. My only hiccup on it is its an 8 round. barrels are more limited if you decide to turn it into a field gun later. but then again, a maverick 88 field gun will cost you as much as a replacement barrel so you might as well just buy another gun.Maverick 31046 88 12 20 CYL 8RD $206.00 SHIPS FREE
I have been wanting/looking at these for a while, cant beat the price.
tnscooter: that exactly the shotgun i am looking at but they were out of stock for awhile glad they got them back in stock!
frontier owner: so if i understand correctly if i get the security model then the forend wont interfere with the shell carrier
there has been alot of discussion on shotgun world (mossberg section) on the mavericks and the 500's. Mossberg seems to swap between the "corn cob" forend with the action bars molded in to the full field fore arm. The hang up has been on the 6 shot models where mossberg seems to switch barrels depending on if they need field or security and which fore arm they have handy.Who told you that the forend interferes with a sidesaddle? Maybe on the Walmart 88 with the blocky square forend but not the 20' 8 shot with the corn cob forend.