 Hey there friends. Thanks for checking in today. We are revisiting the Mossberg Maverick 88 security model What a great shotgun this is a lot of people love it. They say it's a working man shotgun It's priced right it functions great and it has a fine reputation for being an outstanding shotgun Now the MSRP on this is 267 that's a steal for a shotgun of this quality for under 300 bucks And at one time people were picking it up for 200 bucks two and a quarter I think I think it's a great deal now. This is the security model. It has 20 inch barrel a 20 inch barrel and a Magazine tube the whole seven plus one which is what I have in there now is eight round capacity They also make this with an 18 and a half inch barrel This is a 20 inch barrel you get one less round with the 18 and a half inch. It has a cross bolt safety I have that a gauge. Let me disengage that and fire eight shots here. We go And I believe that is it and it is stuck That last one did not want the chamber. I just had to muscle that through To get that out. That wasn't easy. I've never had that happen here So now I'm curious if it's gonna happen again Getting back to the features and then we'll load it up and see if that happens again It does not have a loaded gate right there. So that's kind of cool It's got a corn cob fore-end flat dark earth stock and fore-end Skeletonized recoil pad nice trigger action release right right behind the trigger guard there already mentioned cross bolt safety It has a barrel clamp right there fixed cylinder bore choke All right, so you can't screw anything in there to Modify it or a full choke or anything like that and a bead front sight the loads I was just shooting were the seven and a half target loads federal You know two and three-quarter inch now this will accept three inch loads and If you go that route, you'll get one less Capacity one less wrong capacity. I should say but now I'm curious that could have been an ammo issue I doubt it was a shotgun issue. So let's try it again. We'll load it up with eight rounds All right, let's try that again if it happens again I'll be shocked because I have fired this a lot and I've never had any problems. Here we go All right, so that tells me whoo that barrels high That tells me that that shell expanded a little bit and it did not want to eject But other than that, it's a fine shotgun. I am convinced that that was a ammo issue 100% in my mind because I have run all types of ammo through this everything from turkey loads, which are extremely Heavy recoiling to slugs to high-velocity bird shot. I actually have some of that now We'll run some of that high velocity that one kicks you back a little bit to buck shot you name it I've run everything mini shells. I've run mini shells through these with the Adapter in there and that's the first time I ever had a hang up. So I am convinced that is a Ammo issue, but that's okay. Let me get some of those high velocity and you'll see the difference in recoil Well, we have here a Fioki high velocity two and three-quarter inch loads. I've actually run Remington Nitro turkey loads three inch magnums. All right, here we have Remington Nitro turkey. It's a four shot That's a three inch load and the magazine tube holds six rounds of The three inch loads These turkey loads Are tough and they hit hard. Let me go ahead and load the first round I'm really happy it has a Sculptinized rubber recoil pad because this stuff is Powerful, let's go ahead and fire it But the Maverick 88 Handled it. No problem. I will tell you that the recoil was I consider that way stronger than the turkey loads the three inch magnums way stronger than the double-op buck But anyways, that's what I have here And let's see how it goes. I've got four shells loaded up feeling that Why do people love the Maverick? 88 security model in this case because it functions now You can do a lot with it. You can change out the barrels You can put the earth's compatible with the Mossberg 500 model so you can change the barrels out You can go with the 18 and a half inch barrel if that's your choice, but the capacity Eight rounds of two or three quarter inch seven rounds of three inch magnum loads is really good And the function is phenomenal. It doesn't have aluminum receiver there that lever right there is the action And there is the cross bolt Safety a lot of the other Mossberg models have it on top of the receiver right there You know a lot of people like that Whatever it doesn't matter too much to me easy disassemble for cleaning and reassemble everything about this is is really cool I I've always enjoyed it. I love the price, you know, I think I picked this up for like 230 because the security model goes a little bit more with the 20 inch barrel and the extra capacity But I do like that barrel clamp right there and it's a tank it can handle everything my Initial review on this I ran everything through it I'll go ahead and link that and you'll see that this thing can handle it all Let me turn the camera around. We'll take a few shots and wrap it up Another cool thing with the Mossberg Maverick 88 is that it weighs six and a half pounds I would consider this an all-around shotgun great home defense choice. You get that adapter in there You can shoot mini shells you can get to 11 12 13 loads with that, but I have eight rounds loaded up. Let's go ahead We'll go ahead and roll through these targets again alright My shoulders taking a beating But I love it and I love 12 gauge. I love this Mossberg Maverick 88 Especially it's secured. I think the flat dark earth is cool But even the other ones with the 18 and a half inch built even a little bit less expensive It's just as cool just one less round that you could load in there But it's a phenomenal shotgun a lot of people speak highly of it. They like the adaptability of changing out the barrels you know if you want to put a Longer barrel on there for hunting you could do that and it's just an adaptable shotgun That's priced well and that is why they call it the working man shotgun If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share I always appreciate thumbs up button Thanks for watching and you guys be safe