Reviews Mossberg Patriot Bolt Action Rifle 308 Win 22 Fluted Barrel

rear quartering view of the Mossberg Patriot showing the stock to action fit

My first shotgun and .22 burglarize were both Mossberg firearms. "Value for the money" means a lot, and the first firearms I personally owned certainly gave good value for the money. A good quality bolt-action burglarize, at a fair cost, should exist a expert seller. Amongst the most interesting of the modern "affordable" bolt guns is the Mossberg Patriot.

The Patriot features a round-body receiver as often used by Mossberg. The bolt locks upward with dual lugs. The magazine is detachable. Mossberg uses an adjustable trigger that offers excellent all-around utility.

Three Mossberg Patriot rifle configurations
The wood stock versions are handsome guns and have a certain retro quality. The synthetic stock version the author tested was a modern, rugged rifle that will have on the outdoors and poor atmospheric condition.

Mossberg Patriot Features

This isn't a fancy burglarize, but standard fare gets the job done. A close expect at the barrel attachment shows a barrel nut that is similar to the cost-saving barrel nut pioneered on the Savage 110 rifle. The rifle features a standard plunger-type ejector and heavy locking lugs.

The bolt handle is hands manipulated. The safety is a standard ii-position type. The bolt is attractively spiral turned. This spiral turning is attractive and perhaps offers a positive surface that sends strange fabric into the slots and avoids necktie-ups. Fluting adorns the barrel. Maybe, it would help cool the butt a bit, but heating this barrel would accept a lot of shooting! The barrel crown is nicely done.

Interestingly enough, the standard synthetic stock is well proportioned — even attractive. The comb is thick and level; drop at the heel equals the drib at the rummage. The raised cheekpiece is platonic for well-nigh of us. The recoil pad is well designed.

The adjustable trigger is a nice touch on a modestly priced burglarize. I originally set the trigger for 3 pounds during testing and fired off a benchrest. Afterward I became more comfy with the Mossberg Patriot burglarize, I adjusted the trigger down to a crisp 2.5 pounds. For my use, this was an ideal pull weight. The Mossberg organisation worked well for accurate shooting. I similar the Lightning Bolt Action (LBA) trigger and found no drawbacks. The rifle was light plenty at 6.5 pounds.

Cropped view of the Mossberg Patriot showing the magazine detached
The Patriot features a detachable 5-round box mag.

Scope Mounting

I originally used a unlike rifle scope, but I had an interest in testing the TRUGLO Buckline. I wanted to fix up more than one rifle with the same scope. The Buckline is affordable, yet information technology features a duplex reticle, generous eye relief, and fully coated lenses.

I mounted the Buckline before doing serious benchrest work. The rifle was chambered in .xxx-06 Springfield. This is among my favorite rifle cartridges. The .30-06 hits hard and responds well to a conscientious handloader. With proper load practice, you may load the .xxx-06 to .308 or even .30-30 WCF recoil and energy levels. This makes for pleasant practice. With careful loading, you may produce handloads that tag at the heels of the .300 Winchester Magnum — with greater efficiency and less recoil — while burning less powder.

Test Firing

I ready up the MTM Caseguard K-Zone shooting rest. I fired a few rounds of a favorite handload using the Hornady 150-grain SST to sight the rifle in. Once on paper at 25 yards, I settled down at 100 yards for accurateness testing.

I have observed splendid accuracy from the Mossberg Patriot burglarize. It seems my experience wasn't out of the norm. At the Patriot'southward price point, you can afford a good scope and enough of exercise armament. When firing the burglarize, I usually grasped and saved the cartridge case as information technology was ejected — I handload my ammunition. The ejection port was generous, offering enough of room for loading and unloading cartridges.

Barrel crown on a rfile
The Mossberg Patriot features a proper barrel crown that increases accuracy.

The stock fit the activity well. I retrieve the wrist is a bit thin in many rifles, only the Patriot was ideal. Handling was good, and the burglarize — a .30-06 example — was never uncomfortable to fire. The bolt-action was shine in functioning.

At one time, I did not prefer the detachable magazine. However, I have come to like this pattern amend than the en-block type. Near of the loads I have fired have been handloads. These handloads use IMR 3031 powder and the Hornady 150-grain SST.

I had the burglarize sighted, in brusk guild, to strike an inch high at 100 yards. The TRUGLO telescopic was easily adjusted and offered a crisp, articulate sight picture with cypher to be desired. Using this handload, the rifle grouped three shots into 1.5 inches at 100 yards.

Cheek swell on the Mossberg Patriot rifle stock
A modest cheek bang-up makes the stock fit about firing styles well.

Side by side, I moved to mill ammunition. I used the Hornady 150-grain Interlock American Whitetail loading. This is the platonic hunting load — for all merely the largest — deer-sized game.

Settling into a careful rhythm, I was able to register an excellent ane.45 inches at 100 yards. I as well used the Hornady Superformance, and I have fired handloads with the 168-grain Hornady bullets. Accuracy has been good.

I found the rifle comfortable to fire. Still, .thirty-06 recoil adds up after a long firing session. Recoil was there, only and then was accuracy. At this signal, I could easily see how a shooter might sight the rifle in and retire the piece until hunting flavor. I left the rifle sighted for 150-grain loads, and the 150-grain Interbond load will exist the option for hunting.

Plastic ammunition box with .30-06 rifle cartridge handloads
For handloads used in testing, the writer selected the Hornady 150-grain SST bullet over IMR 3031 pulverisation.

I fired the rifle in offhand burn down at 50 and 100 yards. I have worked upwardly a practice load that is sensibly below factory standards with the Hornady 150-grain JSP and enough 4064 for meaningful practice. Results were practiced in offhand burn.

The Mossberg Patriot is accurate, reliable, smoothen in operation, and offers good performance at a off-white cost. The .30-06 cartridge offers enough power for anything on the North American continent. This is a not bad combination.

Rugged, reasonably priced, and proven performer… What else could you ask for in a hunting rifle? Share your opinion of the Mossberg Patriot in comment section.

Bob Campbell

Bob Campbell'due south primary qualification is a lifelong honey of firearms, writing, and scholarship. He holds a degree in Criminal Justice but is an autodidact in matters important to his readers. Campbell considers unarmed skills the first line of defence force and the handgun the last resort. (He gets it honest- his uncle Jerry Campbell is in the Boxer's Hall of Fame.)

Campbell has authored well over six,000 manufactures columns and reviews and fourteen books for major publishers including Gun Digest, Skyhorse and Paladin Press. Campbell served as a peace officeholder and security professional and has fabricated hundreds of arrests and been injured on the job more once.

He has written curriculum on the academy level, served as a pb missionary, and is desperately in love with Joyce. He is training his grandchildren not to be snowflakes. At an historic period when many are thinking of retirement, Bob is working a 60-hour week and awaits being taken up in a cyclone many years in the future.

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