I'm shopping for an extra barrel for my mossberg 500, I'm looking at the shorter mid length barrels since I have a 28" with screw in chokes and a 18.5 " cyl barrel already. I want something with screw in chokes but shorter than the 28" . I have a choice between an plain no ported 20" barrel or 24" with ports. I think I would prefer the 24" for an all around turkey/upland/truck gun barrel as it would balance a bit better, but reading up online the main complaint about the porting is it makes the shotgun louder. Does anyone here have experience with the newer ported mossberg barrels? Would the 24" ported barrel be a lot louder than the 20" with normal field loads?? I'm trying to decide on which one but I really don't want my shotgun to be louder than it already is. Which barrel length would you pick for a truck gun for grouse/rabbits etc or maybe turkey?
Moss berg ported barrel extra loud?
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Have you thought of purchasing some walker game hears or electronic muffs that's allow you to hear and then shut off and protect you when the gun goes off. Shotguns are loud period and having a ported or non ported barrel may help but it sounds like the concern is barrel length and shotgun sounds. I had a mossberg 930 with a ported barrel and it really does nothing. I also found the only barrels for sale would be a turkey barrel on the ee. Barrels are tougher to find the 24 turkey would be easier than a 20. My guess a used 24 turkey may cost you 150 to 125 while a new 20 will cost you close to 300.
OK that's what I've been hearing. I've never owned a ported barreled gun so I wasn't sure what to expect with the mossberg. I know at the range some of the ported magnum rifles can be really obnoxious, I guess the shotguns are much the same. I think I'll just buy the non ported 20" barrel.
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Ported barrels are louder as are shorter barrels. I can only imagine how loud by combining both elements??!! IMO ported barrels serve their purpose on clays guns due to the high volume of fire to relieve felt recoil due to muzzle jump but on something like a field gun I see no practical value. You only have two more rounds before your gun is empty so the advantage of a fast follow up shot by reducing muzzle jump is quite minimal. Its not like hitting a clays field where multiple targets may be on the same plane or a few hundred rounds in a day are fired.
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I wouldn't say the porting on a 28" barrel is appreciably louder. The gas has to come out somewhere. But a 24" barrel is deafenitely louder (see what I did there?) and the 21" louder still. At least the ports are pointed skywards, rather than sideways.
Ask the guy next to you in the blind if he agrees...
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This^^^ from behind the trigger ported barrels have a different sound to the shooter and I would never fire one, especially with field loads without wearing some form of hearing protection. In a blind with someone next to a ported barrel? No thanks, been there, done that. I prefer my ears not ringing!!
