I spent a 6 month tour with the AZ NG down on the border area between Naco and Douglas, AZ-from Oct. Holding it in your hands, you can almost hear the rotors spinning on a Huey and “boarding party to the flight deck” coming over the 1MC. The Retrograde to me says awesome hair, flight suit, and a really bad attitude cause Ronnie Reagan told us to. Lots of weird stuff happened in the 80s you won’t find in any history book, but the memory lives on with the old hands and the pictures. The scattergun in those days was a staple of ship boarding operations, and much more common in general use than now. Not the recruiting pictures they stage, but real pictures on the wall from my units. When I was a young Marine, I remember seeing lots of pictures of 80’s era Jarheads running a wood stock shotgun like this one. I’m talking about feels, not rigid historical accuracy.) For me, it takes me to another place not that distant, but still before my time. For some, it is going to remind them of a classic WW1 trench gun. It wouldn’t be completely out of place as the Old West was ending. Complete with the corncob forend, the Retrograde hearkens back to another time.

And the furniture change means a lot in this particular case.

In this case, the look means a Walnut stock and forend, complete with an old school brown rubber butt pad. But before we get into the nuts and bolts, what is the Retrograde concept? It is basically an old school look while retaining all the technical advances shotguns have made in the last 100 years. I opted for the 590A1 and I don’t regret that choice.

Mossberg 590 a1 brand new sticky pump sticking open