OK, let’s look at a polished/blued barrel. It has no monoblock, nor any fitting to the receiver necessary, no polishing on the outside of the tube prior to blueing, etc, etc. The Mossberg blued barrel bead blasted, which is not usually seen on a double gun, and it is only 20″, instead of 28 to 32″. The gunsmith cost (which is not your cost) for a Mossberg 500 20″ barrel, bead blasted, blued, with a vented rib, is $220.Īgain, that’s my price, not your price. The Stevens 555 E gives you everything you’d want in a budget over/under in an impressive looking package.
Load it with heavier stuff and she’ll pound you shoulder like a. No length or pull or cast shims included.Ĭhoose your loads carefully, and you have yourself a eye-catching lightweight field gun you’ll be proud to tote across fields and through brush in search of winged prey. Larger lugs with longer arms may feel a little cramped. The 555 E’s 14 1/2-inch length of pull works for smaller to average shooters. It fired hundreds of different rounds and reliably ejected the shells. You can see every dollar of the $170 premium you pay over the base 555 shotgun models. 410)Īttractive engraving and upgraded, figured walnut make for an impressive looking budget-priced smoothbore. Specifications: Stevens 555 E 12 Gauge Over/Under Shotgun Which makes the 555 E another excellent value shotgun from the former Ottoman Empire - provided you feed it carefully. You could spend more and get more, but you also could spend more and get less. It’s an affordable, attractive everyman’s over/under that looks good at the club and carries well in the field. The Stevens’ 555 E ticks all the right boxes: it’s comfortable, accurate and light. It’s balance point sits at the front edge of the receiver, enabling easy, natural pointing and swing.Įqually satisfying, the tang-mounted combination safety/barrel selector is right where God intended it to be. The trigger guard is just roomy enough to accommodate a gloved hand.ĭespite being a steel-barreled over/under with an ultra-light aluminum receiver, the 555 E isn’t front-heavy. Stevens (or rather KOFS) managed to equip the 555 E with a more-than-decent trigger. Put bead on bird and that chukkar is yours. The Stevens produced consistent, even 50/50 patterns. It’s best to feed the 555 E the kind of upland loads for which the gun was designed.Īs for patterning, I shot a variety of target and bird loads, including Federal’s new Hi-Bird #6’s, just the kind of loads you’d expect to shoot in the field. Load the Turkish shotgun with heavier 3-inch loads and she bucks like an amphetamine-fuelled bronco. On the down side, physics being the harsh mistress it is, you will feel it when you pull the trigger.īy giving up 1.5 pounds to its chunkier competitors, the 555 E makes shooting 2 2/4-inch loads something of a shoulder-punishing endeavor.
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On the plus side, you’ll be able to sling the 555 E over your shoulder and carry over hill and dale all day long. My 555 E tipped the scale at barely over six pounds. On paper, that’s a good pound to a pound-and-a-half lighter than its budget-priced competitors (e.g., CZ Redhead, Mossberg International Silver Reserve or Stoeger Condor). Thanks to its steel reinforced aluminum receiver, the 555 E is officially rated at a svelte 6.5 pounds. The Stevens is chambered for 2 3/4 and 3-inch shells, but there’s a caveat there. The gun comes complete with five flush choke tubes (cylinder, IC, modified, IM and full), making it suitable for anything from low house skeet crossers to circling teals. Stevens also offers the 555 E in 20, 28 and. The vent rib in on the 12 gauge version’s 28-inch chrome-lined barrels is finished with a brass bead. But what do you expect in an over/under retailing for under $700? The 555 E’s machine-cut checkering isn’t as deep or tactile as you’d get in a hand-cut gun I’d prefer something a little more aggressive. For fast shooting and reloads in the field, though, ejectors are the way to go. As a trap shooter, I’m firmly in the extractor camp. The E models have ejectors rather than extractors. TTAG’s T&E 555 E was attractively figured and finished to a low luster, with clean consistent wood-to-metal joins. The Enhanced version includes upgraded walnut. The engraving gives the 555 E a higher end look, elevating the gun from workhorse toward heirloom status. Unlike the base models in Stevens’ 555 line, the E (for enhanced) version sports nicely figured laser engraved filigree on its aluminum receiver. In my experience, Turks produce two types of shotguns: firearms with impressive aesthetics and excellent reliability or guns with perfunctory finish work and slapdash construction. Like so many affordably priced scatterguns, the 555 E is a Turkish import.
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