With the shorty shotshells, you get more of ’em and they kick significantly less so in my mind, the benefit outweighs any negatives. The 590S can be a handful to shoot, especially if you’re gungy enough to try full-house 3″ slugs. But, considering this gun is largely combat-ineffective the past 20–25 yards, who really cares?įortunately, for the minor sacrifice of terminal energy there is a huge upside - reduced recoil and enhanced controllability. Less lead equals less kinetic energy so there is an official reduction of “power” on the receiving end.
The slugs are “only” one ounce, while #4 buck and #8 shot loads weigh in at 15/16 oz. Of course, there is a trade-off: payload. When you’re talking slugs, you’ve just added three additional ounces of hot lead to your blaster. In the case of the Shockwave 590S, I jammed three extras into the tube for a total eight versus five with 2-3/4″. First is capacity - without modifying the gun, you’ll get several more shells into the magazine. There are several advantages to the mini shells. Regardless, doing any of those things terminates the legal design features and invites trouble with the Feds.Īs of this writing, the administration is making noise about trying to re-classify these as something subject to more regulation and tax such as “NFA weapon,” so stay tuned. You also can’t fire it from the shoulder, though it would be almost physically impossible and incredibly painful if you tried. Keep in mind there are a couple of things you could do with a Shockwave or any such shorty scattergun to get yourself in plenty of trouble under federal law - you can’t carry it concealed and you can’t put any other type of grip or stock on it. In other words, the government couldn’t find an existing legal definition to cover it, so it’s just considered a generic “firearm.”
It’s not concealable (legally speaking) due to length and it’s not designed to be shoulder-fired, so it’s technically not a shotgun. This is possible because of design work, especially the “bird head” grip, specifically intended to work within the existing legal framework. Federally at least, if you’re eligible to own a modern firearm under the 1968 Gun Control Act, you can own a Shockwave. Note we didn’t say “shotgun,” “NFA weapon,” “pistol-grip shotgun” or any other legal “thing.” Therefore, the Shockwave is not subject to the strictures of those categories. More-restrictive state or local laws aside, the BATF has officially decided - at least for now - the Shockwave is a “firearm,” nothing more or less. They leave the muzzle at a respectable 1200 fps according to the factory so I assume out of the Shockwave the muzzle velocity is a bit slower.Before getting to the fun stuff, we need to examine the one big issue many folks have trouble understanding: How is this thing not considered an illegal sawed-off shotgun? I’ll admit it has more than a passing resemblance. The buckshot minishell is loaded with 11 pellets: seven No. With the OPSol Mini-Clip installed I placed an Aguila buckshot minishell in the chamber and stuffed the magazine tube with eight more. The Mini-Clip is compatible with all Mossberg 500, 590, and 590A1 models. The Mini-Clip reduces the size of the loading port so a minishell is perfectly positioned as it moves from the magazine tube to the elevator assembly. It can be removed just as quickly and easily without tools. Push the OPSol Mini-Clip in the loading port so it is flush to the rear and the bottom of the port. Rack the slide a few times to ensure the clip is in position. The OPSol Texas mini-clip is molded from a hard yet flexible polymer material that snaps into the loading port on the bottom of the receiver. The magazine capacity with 2-3/4 inch shells capacity is 5+1 with Aguila 1-3/4 inch minishells capacity increases to 8+1 shells.
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