![]() ![]() The Shockwave has a tang safety – right where shotgun safeties belong, by the way – and a strap screwed to the forend to keep from getting your hand out in front of the muzzle when vigorously firing and pumping the action. While Mossberg has been making pistol grip shotguns forever the ones with the short barrels are defined by the feds as “Any Other Weapon” and require all the registration paperwork but only a $5 tax stamp (if this makes sense you’re probably a federal government bureaucrat). But I digress.Īs opposed to a pistol grip, the Shockwave has a Raptor grip that does two things, it makes the shotgun more comfortable to shoot and extends the overall length of the shotgun beyond the legal threshold of 26 inches. After firing it, I think you would have to be out of your mind to fire 3” magnum shells in this little terror. The Shockwave is a 12 gauge Mossberg 590 shotgun with a capacity of six rounds, one in the chamber and five in the magazine tube. If it was, the buyer would have to go through the tiresome, lengthy and expensive process to obtain permission from the federal government – but wait – the Shockwave is simply a “firearm”, not a short barreled shotgun, and can be purchased over the counter. With an overall length of just a bit over 26 inches, a 14 inch cylinder bore barrel and a Raptor grip the Shockwave looks like it should be a short barreled shotgun as defined by the National Firearms Act. The Mossberg Shockwave took the show by storm and was likely the most talked about new product introduction. We’ll talk about aiming and shotgun pellet patterns shortly, but first let’s look at a new shotgun from Mossberg introduced this year at the SHOT show in January. To this day there is a general belief the combat shotgun is capable of clearing a room with a single shot and need not be aimed, merely pointed in the general direction of trouble and cut loose. After the war the utility of the combat shotgun was realized by police departments and became known as the “alley sweeper” because it was said to be capable of sweeping an alley clean of bad guys much as the Germans had been swept from the trenches. Regardless, the Winchester Model 1897 “Trench Gun” became known for its ability to launch a cloud of buckshot down a trench line. It became hated and feared by German soldiers who saw it as beyond the pale of civilized warfare this in a war that brought us the machine gun, aerial bombing, the armored tank and poison gas. The combat shotgun was devastatingly effective in the confines of the trenches. When the United States entered World War I they introduced a new weapon to trench warfare. | Category: Articles / Blogs / Videos, Ed Head, Featured | By: Ed Head ![]()
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