Anyone have a Mossberg SSI-one? If so how do you like it? I wouldn't mind finding one in 12 gauge to turn into a turkey gun. My current setup is a customized spartan arms 12 which throws a mean pattern in a light weight set up and I imagine the Mossberg would as well.
Quote from: Shellwaster on April 19, 2014, 04:26:31 PM
Anyone have a Mossberg SSI-one? If so how do you like it? I wouldn't mind finding one in 12 gauge to turn into a turkey gun. My current setup is a customized spartan arms 12 which throws a mean pattern in a light weight set up and I imagine the Mossberg would as well.
I've had one since they were introduced. It's a great single shot. I still carry it to the turkey woods occasionally but not as often as I'd anticipated.
It has a lot of great features. The over bored barrel just like the 835/935, very thick and heavy walled barrel for strength. 3.5" chamber with very high quality bore, integral base to install optics, hammerless and the list goes on and on. It was very well designed but expensive when it was introduced. I don't think a lot of people recognized the quality of the gun and eventually, production was discontinued.
They have become very difficult to find and when you do they are quite expensive most of the time.
If you're looking for a very good single shot gun, it's hard to beat and worth the search for one.
Thanks,
Clark
Thanks Clark for the reply. I knew if anyone could shed some light on the subject it would be you. Maybe one day I can get a hold of one, you're right, they are hard to find with the shotgun barrel.
HEY CLARK LOOK WHAT I FOUND .........
http://www.turkeyandturkeyhunting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=131
I'm not sure but that could be the last time I shot that gun. I seem to forget about it quite a bit.
Thanks,
Clark
Quote from: allaboutshooting on April 19, 2014, 11:24:15 PM
I'm not sure but that could be the last time I shot that gun. I seem to forget about it quite a bit.
Thanks,
Clark
That's got be some kind of sin. Go ahead and send her my way and I'll make sure she gets the attention she deserves. :z-guntootsmiley:
JUST READING WHAT CLARK HAD TO SAY ABOUT THIS GUN GOT ME VERY INTERESRTED IN FINDING ONE , NONE , JUST SOME RIFLES , AND THATS HOW I CAME ACROSS THAT ARTICLE , NICE....... :icon_thumright:
QuoteThat's got be some kind of sin. Go ahead and send her my way and I'll make sure she gets the attention she deserves.
Probably is. That's the fate of many of my guns currently, however. Most serve a purpose when evaluating some new choke, recoil pad, cheek piece, stock or shell and then set neglected for long periods of time after that.
I do think I'll get the SSi-ONE out this week however. I want to compare the patterns with it, the 935 and the new 835 with the Matthews Harmonic Dampner recoil reduction system (long explanation) that I'm evaluating. It will also be interesting to compare the relative recoil of each gun.
My turkey season starts on Thursday and I need to decide what I'll take to the turkey woods and fields here in Illinois.
Thanks,
Clark
Quote from: allaboutshooting on April 20, 2014, 03:50:37 PM
QuoteThat's got be some kind of sin. Go ahead and send her my way and I'll make sure she gets the attention she deserves.
Probably is. That's the fate of many of my guns currently, however. Most serve a purpose when evaluating some new choke, recoil pad, cheek piece, stock or shell and then set neglected for long periods of time after that.
I do think I'll get the SSi-ONE out this week however. I want to compare the patterns with it, the 935 and the new 835 with the Matthews Harmonic Dampner recoil reduction system (long explanation) that I'm evaluating. It will also be interesting to compare the relative recoil of each gun.
My turkey season starts on Thursday and I need to decide what I'll take to the turkey woods and fields here in Illinois.
Thanks,
Clark
I hope you find a renewed interest in her. There is something about toting a one shooter turkey hunting, you know there is not likely a follow up shot like there would be with a pump or semiauto. Also if two birds come in you know you'll have one more bird to hunt later. Good luck Clark in your upcoming season, I hope it goes better than mine so far.
Thank you. Not long ago, I got out my first turkey gun a 12 gauge H&R Topper and cleaned it from top to bottom, taking it all apart and spending way too much time renewing it, so that it looked as good, or maybe better when I bought it sometime in the 1960s.
It is a fixed full choke gun of course, with an original 2.75" chamber, that I used for a variety of game. I shot many squirrels with it and only later did it become my turkey gun.
As you pointed out, you must be sure of your shot because a second one is highly unlikely. If you're concentrating on taking a second shot, you're not concentrating of the first one and that's a disaster. That gun made me a better hunter and more careful.
Prior to buying that gun, I'd hunted with an old Mississippi River Valley Arms 20 gauge single shot that belonged to my Great Uncle Barney and then to my older brother Charlie. The wood was soft from age and probably dry rot and the action was not very tight but it too accounted for a number of squirrels and a few rabbits. I have no idea how it was choked but it worked when I did my part.
I like single shot guns and the modern ones are much safer with far more features to them.
I'll get that gun out tomorrow hopefully, once I get my "catch-up" work done.
Thanks,
Clark
Quote from: allaboutshooting on April 20, 2014, 08:25:04 PM
Thank you. Not long ago, I got out my first turkey gun a 12 gauge H&R Topper and cleaned it from top to bottom, taking it all apart and spending way too much time renewing it, so that it looked as good, or maybe better when I bought it sometime in the 1960s.
It is a fixed full choke gun of course, with an original 2.75" chamber, that I used for a variety of game. I shot many squirrels with it and only later did it become my turkey gun.
As you pointed out, you must be sure of your shot because a second one is highly unlikely. If you're concentrating on taking a second shot, you're not concentrating of the first one and that's a disaster. That gun made me a better hunter and more careful.
Prior to buying that gun, I'd hunted with an old Mississippi River Valley Arms 20 gauge single shot that belonged to my Great Uncle Barney and then to my older brother Charlie. The wood was soft from age and probably dry rot and the action was not very tight but it too accounted for a number of squirrels and a few rabbits. I have no idea how it was choked but it worked when I did my part.
I like single shot guns and the modern ones are much safer with far more features to them.
I'll get that gun out tomorrow hopefully, once I get my "catch-up" work done.
Thanks,
Clark
There is something nostalgic about old guns, especially ones passed down through family. When you get a chance to play with the SSi one please post up some pictures of it and how she does down range.