American Shooting Journal – August 2019

32 American Shooting Journal // August 2019

called the Safe Takedown System and

Oscar Mossberg, who spent a lot of

time designing guns to be safer, would

have been delighted by it.

The MC1sc build and material

quality is top-notch. The gun comes

only in a business-like black, the

stainless steel slide and barrel

protected by DLC (diamond-like

coating). It runs reliably, shoots

straight, and its online pricing is

running about $100 lower than

the $425 MSRP. Extra magazines

are less than $20 too. The MC1sc

is a lot more gun for the money. If

you already have a Glock 43, the

Mossberg can use its magazines and

holsters too.

MVP Precision Bolt-Action Rifle

In the realm of rifles, Mossberg

sensed an unmet consumer desire

for a centerfire bolt-action rifle’s

accuracy with the magazine capacity

of a modern sporting rifle, and

engineers created their versatile MVP

line with that functionality in mind.

The common features shared by all

the MVP rifles are: the ability to feed

from standard AR-15 magazines

(.308 Winchester/7.62mm NATO

caliber rifles feed from any M14, LR-3

and SR-25 magazines), suppressor-

or muzzle device-ready threaded

muzzles, and a user-adjustable

trigger pull weight from 3 to 7

pounds patented by Mossberg as the

Lightning Bolt Action Trigger (LBA).

The MVP rifle comes in six basic

models: Predator, LR (Long Range)

Scout, Patrol, LC (Light Chassis) and

Precision rifle. Each configuration has

additional unique features to enhance

it for its intended application and/or

customize it to the shooter.

The MVP Precision is the

1,000-meter, needle-slender, heavy

weight, long-range, tack driver of

the line. Designed for competition

and target shooters, it is chambered

in the popular 6.5 Creedmoor, .308

Winchester/7.62mm NATO, and

now, for the first time, .224 Valkyrie.

These rifles use medium weight

bull barrels fluted for extra rigidity

and tip the scales at 10 pounds for

the 24-inch 6.5mm Creedmoor and

9.2 pounds for the 20-inch-long

7.62mm NATO and .224 Valkyrie.

Mossberg designed the polymer and

aluminum stock chassis with its long,

hexagonal, slim-profiled, free-float,

front handguard with M-Lok cuts its

full length on all sides for the easy

and solid mounting of a wide range

of aftermarket accessories (bipod,

sling-swivel base, light, etc.). The

triggerguard is enlarged and the bolt

is heavily scalloped on the underside

for clearance when wearing gloves.

A single run of Picatinny rail bridges

the top of the action from end to end,

providing ample space for optics while

maintaining perfect alignment with

two-piece mounts. Not to reinvent

the wheel, the MVP Precision utilizes

Magpul’s MOE+ pistol grip and

10-round PMAG magazine, and Luth-

AR’s excellent MBA three-position

buttstock with adjustments for length

of pull, cast and comb height. The

MSRP is $1,400 and online retail was

as low as $850.

590 Shockwave Pump Action Firearm

Compact shotguns have always been

attractive, if not practical, options

for close-quarters defense. Prior to

2017, the most compact ones that

didn’t require NFA registration had

a vertical pistol grip and were no

shorter than 26 inches in overall

length with the legally required 18-

inch barrel. They were murder on the

wrist, in addition to being hard to aim.

Mossberg’s recent Shockwave

family of pump-action firearms, based

on the 590 shotgun action, changes all

that. The Shockwaves are still just over

the legally required minimum 26-inch

length, but they are much less abusive

to the wrist because they utilize a

long, birdshead-style grip made by

Shockwave Industries. Having a longer

grip, and not ever having been fitted

with a buttstock, a weapon of this type

didn’t fit the legal definition of an NFA

firearm and could be manufactured

with a shorter barrel, as long as overall

length was at least 26 inches. Thus,

because of its longer grip, the 590

Shockwave can have a shorter barrel

of 14.3 inches long. Mossberg was the

first major firearms maker to create

a product line specifically to take

The MVP Precision

bolt-action rifle is

now available in .224

Valkyrie.

The rifle’s bolt is

designed to feed

7.62mm NATO

from common

detachable

magazines.