MOSSBERG - Safety Button Screw

When plumber gunsmiths come to me and say ' I've stripped a screw on the Mossberg 835...I stop and say you tried to unscrew it didn't you? Well yeah. Go back to apprenticing they're made that way. I just cut a rut in the flattened head and backed it out with a hammer and a forester flat head. New button screw...good as new!

I own a Mossberg 590, hence, I own one of these. I no longer use it, as I loath it. I bought a Brownells Enhanced Safety Button and installed it after removal of this screw. Some people have had much trouble removing this stupid screw, as it's designed to not be readily removable. Mine came out in seconds with a smithing quality wide blade flat head. I didn't know the pitch or diameter, so I took the safety block it threads into and hunted through thousands of old screws in my garage. I found one with similar threads and proceeded to remill it to work. Now I have a hardened high chrome content steel screw for my safety (cold blued). And this, this "factory screw" is relegated to a deep, dark recess. Known only as The Trench. I give it three stars only because it in fact fits.

I bought this for a model 500 ATP. All I had was a broken safety button, but decided to get all new parts. The description is vague, just reads "metal". I'm thinking from Brownells, it's Steel. Well, maybe aluminum or pot metal. It doesn't stick to a magnet, so who knows. Second, the detent spring is twice the length of the original. Can't use the new spring. Last, a no tamper screw ? Really ? Don't waste your money on this. It cost me $36 for the safety button, a buggered up screw (because it's a one way), and a little metal ball. I should have just bought the safety button being that's all I needed.