Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Start the Mossberg 930 dove gun project

Thread will be a work in progress type of thing.
Spent about 3 hours today on the forearm
Still lot to do on the forearm.
It has 11 birdseyes in it .
Which should pop pretty good when refinished.
Opened up the checkering outline .
Gotta hit the outline with some 120 grit get out cutting stuff.
Define the valley and angles little better

Strip it after I get jiggy on the butt stock tommorow

Object of the project is refinish the stock and contour smooth all these sharp factory angles
This is what the shotgun looked like before the start of the project.

No structural/ bracing/ mating surface alterations done just getting rid of all these 90° angles appearance wise

Checkering outline needs some additional sanding out like I mentioned earlier.

Aint gonna happen today.
Did enough for 1 day.

Well, get jiggy with it, brotha:



And get your toes out the pic.

Sitka lurks

Clean up the gas vents on the forearm.
They are always done rather roughly and sharply on most factory guns.
Smooth is better. IMO.

You need to pM Redneck on how to disassemble that, only a degreed gunsmith should attempt such a task.

Just sayin

I ain’t shot a moss berg 930 in over 30 yrs......

Last time I shot one was with paper shells

Ohh that smell, ....brings back memories

When I retired from Johns-Manville in ‘59, they gave me a pocket watch.

Mossberg was still making watches then.

The "before" pic looks pretty dang good.

I dont give a fugg what he has to say about it or my technique.
Dont even start man.
I'm a general forumite...

Post up schit on here some might enjoy looking at.

Pics or it never happened... firm beleiver......
Co founder with you. LOL!!!
Aint seen a one of his since I been a member on here.
LMFAO!!!
I'm being nice and it's hard at times.


All I have ever asked was for a friend to pay for the stuff needed to do the project.
Turn down offers for paid work.
Wont do it,,, specially not face to face.
I'm uncomfortable with it.
Dont wanta be known for schitt work via shipping.


And I sure as fugg wont let a project go back with my OCD issue I have.
I have restarted projects from scratch cause of OCD.
Lol!! You know that.

Do you make wood ash trays?


Don’t see them much anymore.

Dave what are you smoking man???
Lol!!!
These are relatively new guns like 10 or 12 years on the market. IIRC.

sold my winchester 1400 mkII to have more modern design gun to disassembly and clean and parts availability.

I have owned alot of 835,s
2 935,s
1 mossberg 500 rifled slug a loooong time ago.
This is my second 930
The black walnut has alot of character waiting to come out
Got a good deal on it at a pawnshop.

I'm a mossberg fan.
They work for me.

Nooooo...
LOL!!!

You ever seen an ashtray get thrown at a plasma tv?

That factory finish was bad man.
That pic is deceiving.
Runs and glaciering sagging on it in places.
I dont know how it got by any QC if they had any at all.

I dont have a single walnut stocked gun with a factory finish on it.

Wiping cloth tru oil 50 50 cut with mineral spirits finish will go on this.
After about 6 penetrating 25 tru oil 75 mineral spirits coats get in it.

Be done with a grain finish like others I have done.
When my eye says it's right is when I will know it's done
Then about a month of indoor and outdoor curing/ hardening.

I cant help it.


At least its work boots and not my bowling shoes ( per everyone on here)

LOL!!!

Was them shoes from when you worked at Sears?

LOL