Mossberg Tactical Review

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Just picked up a Mossberg Tactical .22 to play around with. Had a chance to do some shooting and here are my thoughts.

Pretty cheap looking finish with the plastic but from a couple of feet way it still looks cool. They basically zipped up a Mossberg Plinkster (702?) in an AR alike shell. The sights are plastic, but the rear ones are adjustable. At a glance I think they can be replaced with good ones but why bother? We are talking about a $270.00 dollar rifle here. Slam a fake ACOG or red dot on it and have some fun with it.

It shoots nice and straight. Good groups out of the box. Easy 1 inch groups at 20 yards with it.

The best part about it was it ate everything I fed it without a single failure to eject or feed. Two failure to fire with winchester xpress. Probably the ammo.

I fed it Winchester Xpress, Federal Champion bulk and Blazer bulk. No problems at all except the 2 failures to fire. On a whim I tried 2 mags of Remington Subsonic and to my astonishment it cycled the rifle with no problems. All in all I burned through 300 rounds and it worked like a charm.

To be honest, I have never had a semi .22 that was this easy with ammo.

The only thing I don't like is the mag release. Most times you have to give the mag a little jiggle to get it to drop out when you thumb down on the lever. The lever feels like its going to snap off but I ejected 30+ times and it continued to work.

Other than that it is a fun little rifle and cheap as dirt. The very best part about it is that it is NON-RESTRICTED.
 
I also have one and like it as it is so far reliable and accurate.
Mag release problem was solved by building up the face of the mag release bar so that you don't need to push it down all the way to the end to release the mag. I used a little nylon from a tye wrap and just glued it to the contact face of the mag release bar.
So far it has worked flawlessly, if it comes off for some reason, it will just fall out and be back to stock.
A good buy for the price IMHO!
 
I'm not sure if we have the same problem. My mag release bar literally moves about a milimeter, maybe less, but requires a bit of pressure to make it move even that far. Very stiff. Sometimes the mag won't drop out so I have to let go of the bar, give the mag a wiggle and then press the bar and the mag will fall.
 
Sounds like the same issue I had, when the mag is inserted does the release lever move almost to the end of its travel? Mine was doing this so that to release the mag, the lever had to be pressed real hard to the limit of its travel to release the mag, almost felt like it would strip out or break off!
So much of the release levers travel was used up when the mag was put in that it was just too close to breaking for my liking.
Looking at it I saw that a lot of the travel could be compensated for by building up the face of the release bar a bit so that it was no longer at its limit when the mag was inserted.
It works good now!
 
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