New mossberg lever action

[Gassaway]

All I can say is that this is wrong on so many levels


http://www.mossberg.com/products/default.asp?id=31&section=products#

[rickk]

With the 3 sided  rail on the hand guard, I can mount my under-barrel 37mm launcher to it.

[rbertalotto]

So let me get this straight............a bunch of well paid marketing and design folks sit in a conference room and say....."Hey, I got an idea! Let's make the most rediculous firearm possible.........Ruger just came out with the most ugly bolt action rifle and horrible looking revolver on planet earth. Lets make the uglyest lever action before Marlin beats us to it".............?

[cpt dan blodgett]

M-4 meets 94 and the baby is deformed.

[Jamie]

OK.  Yes it is UGLY, but maybe part of that is because it's based on one of the best looking guns ever (I'm talking about the Winchester 94 of which the Mossberg is more or less a general clone).  When I consider the number of 94's that have been barn guns here in New York that I've known about, based on what used to be cheap price, dependability, reasonable power, and ease of getting into action, consider for a moment the advantage of being able to EASILY connect a good light and any one of a number of other potentially helpful items to a gun like this, and the forend, while overdone - how many connecting surfaces do you need exactly? - really makes logical sense, if not aesthetic sense.  Same with the adjustable buttstock, depending on time of year around here, the ability to add or subtract an inch or more of length is profoundly useful.  Addressing coyotes hitting the sheep at lambing time in the spring and later in the summer (the first coyote officially shot in New York was by a person I knew who kept sheep, and was shot while pulling one down at the back part of the pasture.  The Conservation officers told him that as far as they knew, he was the first...) is benefitted by a "normal" length of pull, while running out the back door at 0 degrees or less would make a shorter length of pull a blessing with a heavy coat.  Lest you wonder how problematic this is, let me just say that a neighboring county - once boasting the greatest number of sheep operations in the state at last check had NONE as a result of financial loss due to coyote problems.  They've tried llamas, donkeys, both of which apparently attack the coyotes when they attack the sheep, but a member of my church has had their best luck with a pack of huge white dogs, the breed of which escapes me at the moment.  Add to that the growth of cougar sightings in the state and the fact that bears have become commonplace (I have a friend who started onto his back porch and went out backward carrying a box, to turn around and discover that the black animal sleeping by the dog dish wasn't his big overweight lab, but a 600 pound black bear which was later live trapped and moved, and eventually shot when it came back the third time) makes having a gun like this, ugly as it undeniably is, a really viable option as a nearly perfect tool.  Combine that with the problems of owning semi autos that exists in some places in the country, and I bet they sell these things like hotcakes.  If they don't, it won't be because they aren't useful and well designed but because, DANG they are UGLY!  I may start saving my dimes and nickels.
Jamie   

[Sir Charles deMouton-Black]

But it seems that they have a plain Jane model as well.


Yeah, it does seem so...........UGLY!

[Tall Dark Slim]

It's just ridiculous enough to get played with at a gunshow long enough to justify buying it...the 500 chainsaw is the same way. Curiosity marketing. New approach.

[NCRanger]

It looks like Terminator meets Winchester 94!   

[Tornado]

It looks like Terminator meets Winchester 94!   

A least the Terminator's 1887 10 gauge looked cool.

[Major 2]

maybe it's for  FAR ...Firefly Action Shooting

[Tuolumne Lawman]

AAAAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH! I need to wash my eyes out and go to confession for viewing vile, perverted gun porn!

[Forty Rod]

Hey, ugly is as ugly does.....and that thing does ugly better than almost any other gun I've ever seen.

[PJ Hardtack]

When a pal sent me that link, I was really hoping that it was a spoof, a photo-shop job.

It saddens me that it is not the case. But' having said that, the market will decide. Jeff Cooper used to describe the '92/'94 as the best 'urban assault rifle' available due to it's association with the Cowboy good guys.

But - that was with the walnut stock, not a tricked out "Frankengun".

[Bottom Dealin Mike]

I saw this thing at SHOT. The Mossberg folks I talked to had been kept in the dark about it until the day before SHOT opened and they had no idea who the intended market would be for a tactical lever action.

[Pancho Peacemaker]

No.





That's all I can say about that thing.

[TallBaldBellied]

Now that's just Glock ugly!

[litl rooster]

Blame the "Preppers"




there's plenty of these videos pushing the use of a Lever gun, So this ought drive the prices up

[litl rooster]

I saw this thing at SHOT. The Mossberg folks I talked to had been kept in the dark about it until the day before SHOT opened and they had no idea who the intended market would be for a tactical lever action.

You should talk them into one to review, Just don't do it Cowboy....

[44caliberkid]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVzMpKYyKYU&feature=related

OK, while I would never buy one (unless it comes out in 375 Winchester or 38-55) I can see the point.  Si, it is ugly.  But probably cheaper than a black rifle.   To each their own, the Mossberg guy in the video seems stoked about it.

[Trailrider]

They gotta be s#i++in' us! Boy, that's just what the anti's need.  A "lever action assault rifle"!