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I had been toying with buying the 7 round mag tube and 20” barrel for either my 500ATP or my 500AB and with shipping it would have been about $180 and I would have to dedicate a shotgun to be tacticool- my weird mind and my thought process went like this:
I can build my 500ATP into a ATP8, but I really like it as original with the 18” barrel and heatshield, and if I ever sell it I would have to make it back to original...
If I built my 500AB into the 20”barrel model, I would have to use my ATP for trap and skeet, and I really don’t want to “wear” that gun out using it in trap and skeet cause it’s kinda rare, and I don’t want to shoot trap with a 20” barrel...
So I was in my favorite gun store cause they had a Smith and Wesson model 37 I was interested in, and it was a great price, but the bluing was in really bad shape from being carried a long time in a leather holster, so while there I looked at a Maverick 88 with 7 round mag tube, and 20” barrel... for $200 brand new... which is a terrific price where I am.
So I left the Smith and Wesson in the case, and paid for my maverick and went home with a big smile on my face.
For me this is win win win. I’m gonna take the synthetic stock and fore grip off the Maverick and swap them with the corncob fore grip I just put on my 500AB and the original stock, maybe refinish the stock so it’s oiled and that works well for 2 reasons/ the butt pad on my 500AB is so stiff it does nothing, so I get a nice squishy one on the synthetic stock, and I get my old school looking persuader.
That was a lot of talking for nothing lol
Pics coming soon- I didn’t get to do anything with it tonight
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I can build my 500ATP into a ATP8, but I really like it as original with the 18” barrel and heatshield, and if I ever sell it I would have to make it back to original...
If I built my 500AB into the 20”barrel model, I would have to use my ATP for trap and skeet, and I really don’t want to “wear” that gun out using it in trap and skeet cause it’s kinda rare, and I don’t want to shoot trap with a 20” barrel...
So I was in my favorite gun store cause they had a Smith and Wesson model 37 I was interested in, and it was a great price, but the bluing was in really bad shape from being carried a long time in a leather holster, so while there I looked at a Maverick 88 with 7 round mag tube, and 20” barrel... for $200 brand new... which is a terrific price where I am.
So I left the Smith and Wesson in the case, and paid for my maverick and went home with a big smile on my face.
For me this is win win win. I’m gonna take the synthetic stock and fore grip off the Maverick and swap them with the corncob fore grip I just put on my 500AB and the original stock, maybe refinish the stock so it’s oiled and that works well for 2 reasons/ the butt pad on my 500AB is so stiff it does nothing, so I get a nice squishy one on the synthetic stock, and I get my old school looking persuader.
That was a lot of talking for nothing lol
Pics coming soon- I didn’t get to do anything with it tonight
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