Bayonet Lug on 590

azguy · 03-26-2008, 12:52 AM

I have a 12 gage 590 I have had it well over 5 years now and while I was cleaning it I just noticed it had a bayonet lug. I knew the USMC used Mossbergs, but did they ever have the model 590 in their arsenel as a standard issue shotgun? I do not know, I was in the Army myself. The bayonet lug is way cool, but it really does not have a purpose on a shotgun, in my opinion other than just really cool looking.

Does anyone know if anyone out there makes a flashlight attachment that uses a standard lug attachment as a quick release? So that you can attach a flashlight to a shotgun, easy on, and easy off, but with the secure fit of a bayonet?

GlockMeister · 03-27-2008, 12:45 AM

All I can tell you is this. In tonights or Wednesdays American Rifleman episode, the continuation from last week where they talk about the great John Moses Browning. Anyhow, as I watched it just now, DVR'd it, they were showing pictures of older,different and other models of guns he'd had a hand in making or contributed to. I don't know the brand, but it was a shotgun, it did have a bayonet lug and it did have a bayonet on it. So to kind of answer your question, there was a shotgun, not sure of the brand, but there was a shotgun with a bayonet on it...

Based on this, I suggest you research it by googling "shotgun with bayonet" and see what comes up? Good luck...

basqueechmo · 04-01-2008, 01:53 PM

We had a couple 590s and Rem 870s in our armory. I think the bayonet lug is just something the higher ups mandated back when during test trials. one of those just in case we need a trench gun type things. There's a pretty sweet pic of a mossberg with a bayonet attached on wikipedia.

03-26-2008, 12:52 AM	#1
azguy Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Yuma, AZ Posts: 130	Bayonet Lug on 590 I have a 12 gage 590 I have had it well over 5 years now and while I was cleaning it I just noticed it had a bayonet lug. I knew the USMC used Mossbergs, but did they ever have the model 590 in their arsenel as a standard issue shotgun? I do not know, I was in the Army myself. The bayonet lug is way cool, but it really does not have a purpose on a shotgun, in my opinion other than just really cool looking. Does anyone know if anyone out there makes a flashlight attachment that uses a standard lug attachment as a quick release? So that you can attach a flashlight to a shotgun, easy on, and easy off, but with the secure fit of a bayonet?

03-27-2008, 12:45 AM	#2
GlockMeister Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Northern Illinois Posts: 2,919	All I can tell you is this. In tonights or Wednesdays American Rifleman episode, the continuation from last week where they talk about the great John Moses Browning. Anyhow, as I watched it just now, DVR'd it, they were showing pictures of older,different and other models of guns he'd had a hand in making or contributed to. I don't know the brand, but it was a shotgun, it did have a bayonet lug and it did have a bayonet on it. So to kind of answer your question, there was a shotgun, not sure of the brand, but there was a shotgun with a bayonet on it... Based on this, I suggest you research it by googling "shotgun with bayonet" and see what comes up? Good luck... __________________ I'd rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6!

Thread Tools
Show Printable Version Email this Page
Display Modes
Linear Mode Switch to Hybrid Mode Switch to Threaded Mode

04-01-2008, 01:53 PM	#3
basqueechmo Registered User Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 5	We had a couple 590s and Rem 870s in our armory. I think the bayonet lug is just something the higher ups mandated back when during test trials. one of those just in case we need a trench gun type things. There's a pretty sweet pic of a mossberg with a bayonet attached on wikipedia.