Bought this shotgun today for $90 OTD.  It's a Mossberg M185C in 20 guage.  They go for around $100 on the net, so its no collector piece by any means.  

I was thinkin 18 1/2 in. barreled trunk gun. Maybe some sling swivels. Sell the choke tubes for $20 each since they go for $25 everywhere else, and pay for the gunsmith work with that.  

My daughter absolutely refuses to shoot it, so its out for her HD gun.  Let me hear some ideas!

Good slug gun if you are in a shotgun only area for deer?

We can still use rifles in PA.  At least for a while longer anyway!  I REALLY didn't need this shotgun.  Just bought it because it was cheap and might be a neat project gun.

If nothing else, I figured I could sell it to one of the Amish.  They love these guns for some reason!

I would leave it as it is and sit on it for a while.  If anything I would give it to someone that may love it the way it is.

Keep you can never have enough guns especially when they are cheap, I bought a Mauser argentino in great shape, with matching numbers, and a type 30 Japanese once at the local gun store for $100 together OTD, I liked the Mauser and he threw the Type 30 in just to get rid of it, both are fairly interesting, and I bought them just because I thought that they were interesting and they were cheap.

I also bought my a smooth bore pump shotgun I use for slug hunting, it has rifle sights on it, and I got it for some spare shotgun parts I had laying around, I traded to the store owner for it. It's great gun very accurate and I use if every year. I could have bought with out the trade for $40. Nothing wrong with it just because it's cheap, and while I didn't need another gun, I thought what the heck.

So my vote is keep, you may find a use for it or it may just be good for conversation one day.

Saiga mag conversion???

OOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!  Now THAT would be somethin, wouldn't it?!

I have no personal experience with the bolt action shotguns, other than shooting my uncle's 12 Gauge Marlin Goose Gun. I have read some gunsmithing stuff that said they had some small parts that were prone to breakage.

Shoot it.

 

Try fastening a hatchet/axe to the back of the stock, let it get a little surface rust, and sell it to a Hollywood special effects specialist as a post-apocalyptic tribal weapon.

It's really the only way to go.

Done did that yesterday. I think I may just keep it the way it is.  No sense destroying its little value by cutting its barrel short and shoving it in my trunk and forgetting it.  I may even try to shoot a turkey with it this fall.

If that had a screw-in rifled choke and is tapped for a scope, it's what I would want to hunt deer with in shotgun counties.  Sell it or trade it in such a county.

It needs a quad rail and a vertical fore grip