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Let’s play the “What is it?” game!
- Thread starter cmshoot
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It's a Mossberg CAC pistol in .45 acp. It's the idealized combat pistols from a 1980's mindset (parallel to today's thinking of the ideal combat pistol being a Glock 19x or Sig P320). I never heard of this design but the logic of it makes sense. It has no grip safety, long beavertail so no hammer bite, a pivoting trigger rather than a 1911 trigger which moves straight back, ambi safety mounted on the slide, all stainless steel construction and having a 4" barrel. Here is a promotional ad for it back in its day.
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I forgot to note. It has an extended slide stop lever and a screw in bushing for enhanced accuracy.
You got it.
More info in this article:
www.americanrifleman.org
Yugo!
More info in this article:
An Official Journal Of The NRA | The Keefe Report: The Mossberg That Never Was
Ever heard of the Mossberg Military .45 ACP Combat Model? In the interest of full disclosure, I hadn’t either.
Yugo!
I found other pics of the same basic action.
Now I gotta find the specific model number.
That thing, that sleeve or whatever, mounted on the exterior of the barrel just forward of the receiver,
is confusing me. I've never seen THAT on a gun before, and I have no idea what its purpose might be.
Surely they wouldn't use it for the forward scope ring, when it it's just an accessory tube tacked-on
to the gun's barrel? That wouldn't seem stable enough.
Getting close. It's for the rear sight. The pic I got is one where the rear sight was removed.
Remington 591M (clip magazine) or 592M (tubular mag under barrel.)
Made only a few years in early 1970's
and chambered for the new rimfire round with 2300 feet/second velocity--
5mm Rem Rimfire Magnum.
Made only a few years in early 1970's
and chambered for the new rimfire round with 2300 feet/second velocity--
5mm Rem Rimfire Magnum.
Photo of that oddball cartridge I took yesterday at the gun show:
wait. .. a photo I took yesterday
and posted in the gun show forum...
wait. .. a photo I took yesterday
and posted in the gun show forum...
It's a Remington 580 single shot in .22 LR. I'll give this one to you since you found a rifle which looks very similar from Remington to the 580 series (the rear end of the bolt and safety). I knew nothing of the 590 series. That's pretty cool. The 580 series consists of the 581 (box magazine fed) and 582(tube fed) also in .22 LR. The 580 series were produced from 1967-82. I have a 582 from 1977 which used to be my uncle's. You're up.
