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Well this all started years ago when I got bit by the 20 ga bug, I got everything ready to go but just could not make myself jump into the 20 water (everybody knows it takes a 12 ga or bigger to kill a turkey).
In the last year or so my shoulder has been really giving me fits and I am afraid I might have to get it cut on for the second time. While hunting with Reloader (Ronny) in TX this past year he killed two with his 20 ga at very close range :roll: . Anyway that and my shoulder got me to jump into the water. I started looking for a used 20 to hunt with but was not having a lot of luck at the pawn shops and gun shows finding anything used. I am making my rounds one day and Ronny called me and ask what I was doing, I told him looking for a cheap 20 to hunt with, which lead to the question "why not just my Mossy youth 20 ga"? We talked a little and came to a deal and I picked it up from him in TX on what has turned into our annual deer hunt/swap meet.
While waiting on the hunt to come around we found a guy running a deal on Cerakota, so Ronny sent my 20 along with some of his to get coated. Well I saw a gun doedaddy had posted pic's of and it was a Mossy that he had put a Remington Shur Shot stock on. I pm'ed him and ask a few questions, then ordered me one for my new turkey slayer.
When I got the Mossberg from Ronny in its new DoDoo brown color (Ronny's words not mine but hey he has twins so I am sure he know of what he speaks) I started to work. I spent about an hour with a dremel tool, sander, files, and other instruments of destruction in order to get the Remington butt stock to mate with the Mossberg. Now when it came to the forearm, making the Remington forearm work on the Mossy would have been akin to a monkey screwing a football. I decided transform the factory forearm into a faux Remington, so off to the bandsaw it went.
The results seemed ok up to this point and after a coat or two of paint on the forearm the gun went back together. I was never happy with the way the painted forearm looked so I stripped it back down to bare wood.
At this point I have to give Gophert high praise for not ducking my calls,pm's, and text because he talked me thru a DIY hydro-graphic dipping process. I will be the first to admit it is not perfect but it will hunt.

While this was all going on I found another lost orphan in the way of a Remington 870 20 ga with a 26 in barrel. After posting I was looking for a butt stock Waddle Whacker came to my rescue and I was able to get rid of the plywood looking factory stock.
A little time on the mill was in order for both receivers to get drilled and tapped for the 336 mount, and both got a trigger job and the Burris FF treatment.
Now I waiting on the ice to leave so I can see how they shoot the TSS and Fed HW7's I have been sitting on for ever and a day.

I present to you my Mossington (or Remberg) and its running mate for the 2015 and beyond hunting season.