It is ambidextrous and easily accessed with the thumb of the shooting hand.
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For those who are familiar with the company’s 500/590 series shotguns, this safety works in the same way.
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Mossberg also includes a manual safety on the top tang. The safety should not preclude consideration of the gun, but you should be consciously aware of it. While this does provide an increased level of safety against an accidental discharge, it also introduces a potential failure point in using the gun under the stresses and dynamic circumstances of a violent encounter. If the handle is not gripped in precisely the correct manner, the plunger will not fully depress and the gun will not fire. When the gun is properly gripped, the lever handle depresses the plunger and allows the trigger to move to the rear. There is a small plunger under the lever handle. One thing I discovered is that you have to have a precise grip to deactivate the trigger safety and fire the rifle. It broke cleanly at 4.75 pounds with no overtravel. The trigger on the Mossberg 464 SPX wasn’t bad at all. My best five-shot group with this load clustered into 5.5 inches. This particular rifle didn’t care for Remington’s Core-Lokt ammunition. The 160-grain LEVERevolution load from Hornady shot a best group of 2.75 inches while the Winchester had a best group of 3.5 inches. This suggests you would need to frequently rotate the ammunition in your home-defense rifle.īoth Hornady LEVERevolution and Winchester Super-X loads shot very well in this gun. The downside is that the polymer tips can deform if stored for long periods of time in the gun. Hornady’s LEVERevolution line, for example, uses polymer-tipped bullets to really expand the possibilities of these guns. This handicap is overcome, however, with the increased use of polymer-tipped bullets. Since the rounds are loaded nose-to-primer, it is possible for a drop or even recoil to cause a round in the magazine to fire. Typically, only soft, blunt bullets can be used for lever-action ammunition. Tubular magazines also limit the kinds of ammunition that can be used in the gun. Even so, a lever action’s capacity and reload speed will never surpass a modern defensive rifle’s. Granted, a lever-action rifle can be topped off during a lull in combat, but that requires the availability of loose rounds stored on the gun or person. These magazines are fast to change out and can even be had in much larger capacities. A modern defensive rifle like the AR-15 uses detachable magazines that come in various capacities, with the standard being 30 rounds. Like many defensive shotguns, a lever action uses a tubular magazine. With a bolt action or semi-auto, this additional body movement is generally not required. But if you are shooting from a prone or lying down position, pulling down on the lever can require you to move both the gun and your body. In the majority of cases, this is not a weakness. One of the problems with a lever gun is that the shooter must pull down to work the action. However, like any platform, the lever-action rifle does have weaknesses that a shooter should learn to work around. 50 Alaskan, lever-action rifles can be chambered in a variety of power levels to meet your needs. 38 Special loads to powerful wildcats like the.
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