As seen in previous posts, I have been building up my Mossberg to better fit me. It's currently sporting a 12" Hogue overmolded stock and forend kit and today I received in the mail my VCAS Padded Sling from Tzoid. However, I had no idea how to mount the sling. First things first was a sling swivel kit from Wal-Mart. The only thing they had in stock was a 1" kit, but I was desparate to get it together tonight so I went ahead and bought the 1" kit. As you can see by the picture, the 1" kit works fine, even though it's probably not recommended.
Now that I have the shotgun, swivels and the sling (sister Suzie sitting...) I decided to go ahead and mount up the front and deal with the back later. The 590A1SPX model has the magazine cap at the end of the barrel (20") but the bayonet lug has a slot for a sling adapter, about 16" down the barrel. I decided to first try out the mount at the bayonet lug, but it puts the sling too low in the center of gravity on the shotgun. It's just asking to be carried upside down.
OK, now what? Well there's the magazine cap, but it's so far away and I would have to wait to order a GG&G adapter. I took off the magazine cap and checked it out and noticed threads. Yes, there are threads in the end of the magazine cap, which are, I'm sure, designed for sling swivels. Am I the only person to not know it has a threaded shaft? Probably. Anyways, after cranking the swivel down into the end of the magazine cap, I successsfully have the front end mounted up. And it's far enough towards the top of the barrel to not have to worry about weapon roll. Success!
Now, to the back. I know that if I used the factory adapter on the bottom of the stock it would be completely off balance from the bore line and not stay in the upright position. I had read in other posts about people using Vickers straps, drilling holes in the side or the top of their stocks, etc. I didn't really want to do anything permanent to the stock (the Hogue stocks are pretty thin compared to the stock one) and again, I'm too impatient to try out the Vickers straps. So I start brainstorming. One idea finally sticks. What if I just take the sling swivel and sandwich it between the stock and the recoil pad? What do I have to lose? Well, I get the recoil pad off and sure enough, it just may work. I get everything together and it just may work. The only speed bump I'm running into is the thickness of the sling swivel is restricting the recoil pad from seating flush against the stock. I think I may Dremel it this weekend and be good to go.
What do you think of this sling mount? There shouldn't be any problems with trimming out 1/8" or so of recoil pad, should it?
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