Re: FN SLP
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: HAVOC615</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Get the mossberg 930 SPX. Pretty much the same weapon and you dont have to change the (I forgot what its called) to shot low brass or high brass. I have both and thats the only thing i hate about the FN. Always I have in now? </div></div>
I have to disagree with this statement. I own a 930SPX and while I have several thousand trouble-free rounds through it incl. cheap wally world bulk pack bird shot though 3" Mag slugs, it is NOT the level of quality found on the FN SLP series guns. The stocks/forends, barrels, extension tubes, trigger/fire-control mechanisms, etc. are all vastly superior in overall quality and construction on the FN SLP. The FN's cycling rate is MUCH faster than the Mossberg, which combined with the FN's vastly better recoil makes for an excellent, quick competition gun. The FN comes threaded for Invector tubes (the Mossy has a basic, unthreaded cylinder bore barrel which you can have threaded for thin-wall tubes, but still pales in comparison to the FN). Finally, with the Mark 1, you get better capacity with the FN than you do with the Mossy which makes for a better competition gun IMO.
Now, obviously the price tag on the Mossy is better at only around $625 or so (I got mine back when they were <$550) compared to the FN at roughly $1k, but like all things in this business...you get what you pay for!!
Make no mistakes that I think the Mossy is a good shotgun and for the money, is tough to beat...but it is, in NO WAY, in the same class as the FN!