With a company history dating back to 1919, the American firm of OF Mossberg & Sons, Inc, based in North Haven, Connecticut, is well known for producing shotguns for hunting, military, and law enforcement applications. As time went on, however, Mossberg branched out to produce and market other types of firearms as well. One of their forays into the hunting rifle world was the Patriot, introduced in 2015.
Formalito, Mossberg’s South African agents, recently supplied SA JAGTER/HUNTER with a Patriot Revere test rifle chambered for the .308 Winchester, along with a Leupold 4,5-14x40 VX-3HD scope mounted in Leupold PRW2 rings, and Federal factory ammunition loaded with their excellent 180-grain Fusion bullets.
FIRST IMPRESSIONS
When we unpacked the Mossberg rifle, the first thing that came to mind was that it was,…
