I just installed the ATI # 4100 stock on my Mav 88. [Safety down by trigger guard] used to use my second finger to press the bolt latch. You can still get to it, it takes some relearning. Now you just pull the trigger on an empty gun and rack the slide, or stretch that finger some. Like playing a new guitar. I wish Mossberg would make that bolt latch bigger or something.
Notes on an my ATI installation. You ATI reps out there, listen up.
On a Mossy/Mav S/G you Must have the MWR 4500 Stock drop adapter [optional item] to lower the comb a 1/2" so you can use TruGlos turkey sites. With out it you are too high, you have to crush face on stock to aim. They could of included it, for 7.00 extra. A hassle sending off for one, Cabela's doesn't stock them. Vendors need to teach sales reps this, because hassles doesn't sell these days.
Another cool item is the STM 1200 mini mag light holder. It fits into the bottom hole of the pistol grip and holds a 1" or 3/4" mini mag and I now keep two AA batteries in the grip as spares for my mini mag cushioned by cleaning patches or earplugs.
I found storage use for the inner slide tube on the multi-position stock. I put a 12 GA Bore-snake down it and and some cleaning patches in it and sealed it with a bicycle handle bar rubber plug.
Then I installed some Mikes swivels and topped it out with a Black Hawk 15 round strap for it.
Everything, from shells to cleaning and batteries for the light for the gun is on the gun. You just grab it and go. I cut my 28" ribbed barrel down to 19" and put TruGlos on it. Those with 18.5" smooth barrels might want the heat shield with ghost ring sites or the muzzle end /light holder.
Has some one shot it and does it have more recoil? I found the butt pad to be pretty cheesy, I filled it up with Silicon Seal, or I may have to use a slip on Limbsaver that came off the old stock, or a Pro Mag butt pad. Now my Mav 88 is totally tactical.
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