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Title: base for a mossberg 500 bantam?
Post by: hankpot on February 20, 2011, 02:26:44 PM

I have a old 500 bantam that I am trying to set up for my girlfriend. I am trying to find out what base I need to mount a dot scope. I bought a pre 97 weaver 88 base at the local gun shop but it sticks out past the reciever like 2 in. Surely there are bases made for the smaller bantam recievers?

Title: Re: base for a mossberg 500 bantam?
Post by: DC101 on February 22, 2011, 09:31:14 PM

The base that you need is a weaver 88A top mount.

That's the one I used when my sons were shooitng the 500 bantam.

Title: Re: base for a mossberg 500 bantam?
Post by: joshua on February 23, 2011, 04:38:51 AM

I went and compared the recievers for a 835 and a 500 20 gauge and they look like they would use the same mount. Look on weaver optics website and that should help. :anim_25: this spring

Title: Re: base for a mossberg 500 bantam?
Post by: Steamin on February 23, 2011, 09:00:43 AM

http://www.weaveroptics.com/mountcharts/default.aspx

500AS (Pre 1997) & 600 Shotguns 88 (48088)
500 (1997+), 590 & 835 Shotguns (Matte) 25 417M (48440)

It would depend on the year that the gun was manufactured, if the pre '97 is sticking out that far I would say that you would need the 417M.
The above list are fom
Weaver's sight.
I just put the 417M on my boy's 500 Bantam's, but they are new.

Hope this helps some

Steamin

Title: Re: base for a mossberg 500 bantam?
Post by: hankpot on February 25, 2011, 09:54:31 PM

Thanks for the replys everyone

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