I don't recall if I'd posted this on the old site or not, but even if I did I know there were no pics because I hadn't taken any of my new Mossey yet. Last year, well before my layoff, I'd gone out with a good friend to shoot some skeet. Now the only shotgun I owned at the time was my Mossberg 590, and with a 20" Cyl. bore barrel, you can pretty much guess how poorly I'd done.
On the second and third rounds, he let me borrow one of his Over/Under, (O/U) shot guns, and I actually managed to take my fare share of clays. After that I saved up and later pulled the trigger on a Mossberg Silver Reserve in 12 ga.
She's a beauty and has some passable looking engraving on the frame. Made in Turkey and imported, I paid about $600 and it came with a full set of screw in chokes.
It had a pair of Improved Cyliner chokes in it, and in the case came one each of, Full, Modified, and improved modified, chokes, and the junky little flat T wrench for changing them. The T wrench is pretty crappy and hard to use but Mossberg doesn't make a nice crank type wrench, SO, I picked up a good Remington wrench and used a small die grinder to remove 2 of the teeth and it now fits perfect into my Mossy chokes.
At any rate, I took it out to try our hand at sporting clays a few months ago, and kept the factory set chokes in, (Improved Cyl in both barrels), and using the stock single bead sight, and out of 100 clays, managed to down about 17. That's pretty good for me, but I wanted to do better, so I changed out the chokes to a Modified and an Improved Modified, and picked up a better Fiber Optic Sight.
This is what it looks like when shooting.
This weekend I went back out with Paul, and we gave Sporting Clays another go. This time I got up to 27 out of 100. So I am quite pleased with the results, now I just have to practice.