Post by newhunter1 on Apr 6, 2005 20:50:54 GMT -5
After hunting season in Illinois I went to my local pawn shop here in town. A friend that works there told me about some nice slug guns with rifled barrels. I went and found a mossberg 695 bolt action with a leupold VX-11 1-4x20 scope attached to it. The shop owner said I could have it for 200.00--needless to say I snatched it up. Shoot the scope alone is over 250-275.00.
I checked the serial # and it is something like 600#'s past the recall of these guns a few years ago. So I'm safe there.
So I finally got some time to shoot the gun and my first shot was pulled off the paper because of the heavy trigger pull. I then adjusted my thought process and shot in high at 40 yards. I then fired the gun at 50 yards with the lightfield slugs (these will be my hunting rounds) and found that at 50 yards the gun was putting the slugs at the top of the ring of the bulls eye. Great--and at 97 yards it is in the bulls eye. Zero adjustment on the scope--perfect. Does anyone have a slug that they feel is better? If so--what?
What is not perfect however is the trigger pull--it FEELS like it is over 9 pounds. I took it to a retired gunsmith who is going to adjust to hopefully 3-5 pounds. My question is--will this gun have an adjustable trigger, or will I have to just grin and bear down (on the trigger)?
I mainly bowhunt and this is my first year getting involved in gunhunting--both in shotgun and muzzleloaders.
Thanks for any assistance.
Paul
P.S. Hopefully this will get more replies than another forum.
I checked the serial # and it is something like 600#'s past the recall of these guns a few years ago. So I'm safe there.
So I finally got some time to shoot the gun and my first shot was pulled off the paper because of the heavy trigger pull. I then adjusted my thought process and shot in high at 40 yards. I then fired the gun at 50 yards with the lightfield slugs (these will be my hunting rounds) and found that at 50 yards the gun was putting the slugs at the top of the ring of the bulls eye. Great--and at 97 yards it is in the bulls eye. Zero adjustment on the scope--perfect. Does anyone have a slug that they feel is better? If so--what?
What is not perfect however is the trigger pull--it FEELS like it is over 9 pounds. I took it to a retired gunsmith who is going to adjust to hopefully 3-5 pounds. My question is--will this gun have an adjustable trigger, or will I have to just grin and bear down (on the trigger)?
I mainly bowhunt and this is my first year getting involved in gunhunting--both in shotgun and muzzleloaders.
Thanks for any assistance.
Paul
P.S. Hopefully this will get more replies than another forum.
