[Centurion2000]

Watch out for the minimum overall length requirement for your shotgun. 26" total minimum.

[Parley Baer]

Federal or state law regarding the 26" length.

[Toadman]

I haven't shot a Mossburg. However; it's been my experience, that the lighter the stock material (e.g. synthetic) the more you'll feel the recoil. I have an 870 Express and added a little bit of a buffer pad to the shoulder weld of the stock. Works like a charm.

Good Luck!

[gridlock]

I have often wondered if we all might be treading on thin ice when discussing such things on this forum. If somebody advocates a non-compliant set-up for a firearm, might one run afoul of our friends in Washington? Might this forum as well?

It seems to me that great care must be exercised in this regard.

[TaMoDee]

The Factory Mossberg barrel is 18 1/2". When the 18 1/2" barrel is installed on a Moss 500 with either a Factory rear pitsol grip or any of the numerous after-market pistol grips the overall length of this pump action shotgun is
27 1/2" or 28"'s. Well within the 26"'s allowed.
Hard shooting! But is just the shotgun to carry in a motor
home with its tight quarters.

[El Gato]

Watch out for the minimum overall length requirement for your shotgun. 26" total minimum.

Rarely a problem with a pump or semiauto. Or even a bolt action for that matter. (I had a 16 gauge bolt action, a Mossberg I think, for my first hunting seaon, but it was a "try before you buy" sort of deal, and we gave it back, in favor of a 20 gauge JC Higgens pump. The action would only need to add 8" to the gun to be legal with no butt stock at all. (BTW, the Mossberg 500, with the shortest civilian legal barrel has an 18 1/2 barrel). As you can see by the image below, taking that barrel length to establish scale, the gun is pretty close to 26 inches long not including the butt stock.

The overall length can become a problem with a break action, single or double, with minimum length barrel(s)