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- 5 or 6 Shell Plug: Mossberg 500, 590, 590A1, 835
5 or 6 Shell Plug: Mossberg 500, 590, 590A1, 835
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5 or 6 Shell Wood Dowel Plug. For magazine tube & waterfowl/migratory bird hunting using "security" type Mossberg shotguns
Need a plug for your "security" style (long magazine tube) shotgun?
The vast majority of Mossberg 500, 590 and 835 guns have 5 round magazine tubes: if you need a 3 round plug for one of those click here.
However, there are "security" style or "tactical" guns out there with longer magazine tubes (7 or 8 round). To comply with 3 round magazine limits imposed on hunters, a dowel is placed in the magazine tube to prevent it from holding more than 2 rounds. The dowel for sale here on this page will take up the space of 5 or 6 rounds in order to comply with such regulations. You need to know which round count your magazine holds... then subtract 2 from that number to know what round plug you need.
For instance, if you have a 9 round total gun, that is called an 8 plus 1 (or 8 +1), that gun holds 8 rounds in the magazine tube... thus take 2 rounds from 8 rounds (8 -2 )= 6 rounds... an 8 +1 gun needs at 6 round plug to comply with federal migratory bird rules (sorry for the story problem, but life is a story problem... oh and we are talking standard 2 3/4" or 3" rounds... not the "shorties").
Some unsolicited advice: Most of these security style guns either have fixed cylinder bore (no choke), or fixed Improved Cylinder (IC... ie very little choke) barrels... you probably won't be able to hit birds at any distance with those barrels... unless you use ammo with special wads, like Federal's "Flight Control" wad. If your happen to have a barrel with removable chokes in your security/tactical gun, you probably want to shoot a tighter choke when trying to hit flying birds or turkey(modified/full/extra full), than you'd use in a defensive situation.
However, there are "security" style or "tactical" guns out there with longer magazine tubes (7 or 8 round). To comply with 3 round magazine limits imposed on hunters, a dowel is placed in the magazine tube to prevent it from holding more than 2 rounds. The dowel for sale here on this page will take up the space of 5 or 6 rounds in order to comply with such regulations. You need to know which round count your magazine holds... then subtract 2 from that number to know what round plug you need.
For instance, if you have a 9 round total gun, that is called an 8 plus 1 (or 8 +1), that gun holds 8 rounds in the magazine tube... thus take 2 rounds from 8 rounds (8 -2 )= 6 rounds... an 8 +1 gun needs at 6 round plug to comply with federal migratory bird rules (sorry for the story problem, but life is a story problem... oh and we are talking standard 2 3/4" or 3" rounds... not the "shorties").
Some unsolicited advice: Most of these security style guns either have fixed cylinder bore (no choke), or fixed Improved Cylinder (IC... ie very little choke) barrels... you probably won't be able to hit birds at any distance with those barrels... unless you use ammo with special wads, like Federal's "Flight Control" wad. If your happen to have a barrel with removable chokes in your security/tactical gun, you probably want to shoot a tighter choke when trying to hit flying birds or turkey(modified/full/extra full), than you'd use in a defensive situation.