Gun Review: Mossberg MVP LR-T

By Tyler Kee

I’ve spent nearly a decade and thousands of rounds trying to identify the Ultimate Texas Hunting Rifle. For most of my life, it’s been a Ruger M77 Mark II in .243 WIN. Last year, I hacked four inches off the barrel, screwed on a silencer and fitted the stock with a cheek riser. It felt as if my rifle had been transformed. Suddenly, it was easier to get in and out of a blind, quieter and easier to bring to my eye. The issue: sub 100 grain 6mm pills need velocity to do their work; cutting off that much barrel took a toll. To find the next great thing, I started sniffing around and found the Mossberg MVP LR-T . . .

After a season of not beating my muzzle against the walls of my blind or the interior of my truck, I found that I rather liked the short barrel on my current hunting rifle. With its barrel reduced to a barely legal 16.25 inches, the MVP was nearly two inches shorter in length that my go-to rifle. Last year, I also grew quite fond of shedding hearing protection, so the threaded muzzle standard on the MVP …Read the Rest

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