Mossberg MC2SC Tritium Pro for sale online
Mossberg mc2sc with a 11-round and 14-round double-stack magazines that provide a slim, compact profile. The Mossberg MC2SC Tritium Pro for sale TRUGLO Tritium Pro night sights, with an optic-ready slide that allows for easy direct mounting of Micro Dot optics.
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Slides are 416 stainless steel with Black DLC finish, with angled serrations for positive slide manipulation. Frames are high-tensile strength glass-reinforced polymer that feature mossberg mc2sc signature aggressive grip texturing and palm swell for a confident, firm grip under a variety of shooting conditions.
| SKU | 89044 |
|---|---|
| Caliber | 9MM |
| Action Type | Semi-Auto |
| Usage | Security |
| Barrel Length | 3.4″ |
| Barrel Finish | 416 Stainless Steel | DLC |
| Capacity | 11+1; 14+1 |
| Frame Finish | Matte Black |
| Frame Type | Micro-Compact |
| Height | 4.30″ |
| Length | 6.25″ |
| Sights | TruGlo Tritium Pro / Optic-Ready |
| Sight Radius | 5.40″ |
| Slide Finish | DLC – Black |
| Trigger | Flat Profile |
| Trigger Pull | Approx. 5.5 lbs |
| Trigger Travel | 0.5″ |
| Safety | Integrated Trigger Blade |
| Twist | 1:16 RH |
| Width | 1.10″ |
| Weight | 19.5 oz (Unloaded), 25 oz (Loaded) |
| UPC | 015813890441 |
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Mossberg MC2sc 9mm Pistol: Full Review
The Mossberg micro-compact MC2sc delivers best-in-class 9mm concealed-carry quality; here’s a full review.
O.F. Mossberg & Sons is an iconic name in the firearms business. You may know it from the justifiably legendary 500 shotgun, a tough-as-nails, reliable scattergun loved by generations of hunters and defensive shooters.
Or maybe you’ve crossed paths with the excellent Patriot line of bolt-action rifles—some of the most accurate centerfires I’ve ever laid my hands on—or the innovative MVP bolt-action rifle that accepts AR-15 and other semiauto magazines.
But perhaps you haven’t tumbled to the fact that the company makes handguns as well, a history going back to the founder’s first firearm created by his newly established company: the four-shot Brownie .22.
Fast-forward 100 years to 2019, when Mossberg brought out the MC1sc, a subcompact single-stack 9mm. It was followed a year later by the double-stack MC2c, supplanting the MC1sc in the firm’s catalog.
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Which brings us to the new MC2sc, “sc” for subcompact, which is smaller than its “c” predecessor. Its small footprint places it in what today we’re calling a micro-compact pistol while bringing the house when it comes to firepower and also offering the ability to install a red-dot sight on the slide.
How small? It has a 3.4-inch barrel with cut-broached rifling, and the overall length is 6.25 inches. It’s 4.3 inches tall without a red dot, and width is 1.1 inches. Capacity is 11+1 with the flush base plate magazine and 14+1 with the extended mag.
That 14-round magazine makes the Mossberg best in class in terms of capacity for standard-equipment magazines. Dimensionally, it is slightly longer than the Taurus GX4 T.O.R.O. (reviewed elsewhere in this issue), Ruger Max-9, Smith & Wesson Shield Plus, Springfield Hellcat OSP and SIG P365X, while shorter than the Glock G43X MOS.
The mossberg mc2sc is also a wee bit heavier than all of these, but it has one of the shortest heights of the bunch. Regardless, we’re talking differences that are hardly significant—tenths of an inch and just an ounce or so. However, the mossberg mc2sc brings more to the party than just size and capacity.
The stainless steel barrel has a DLC (diamond-like carbon) finish, as does the 416 stainless steel slide. DLC coatings are incredibly hard—hence the “diamond-like” descriptor—with excellent lubricity. This high-end treatment means the Mossberg is going to hold up well to the rigors of daily carry and reliably firing lots of rounds.
I love the slide serrations, which are on the front and the back. They’re not the big, wide cuts found on some other guns but rather numerous and narrow, and they have just the right sharpness to make racking the slide or doing a press check simple. The front of the slide and frame are beveled for easy holstering.
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The steel sights are basic white three-dot. However, like the MC2c, the gun can be ordered with TruGlo’s excellent Pro tritium night sights—an option that adds just over $100 to the base sticker price. Mossberg opted for a direct-mount, no-adapter setup for red dots using the Shield RMSc footprint.
This includes the Springfield Hex Wasp I mounted on the test gun, SIG Romeo Zero, the Shield and several others. It’s a footprint that’s a popular choice for this size of handgun. And there’s a reason for it.
“Our goal was to get a reflex optic as close to the bore axis as possible so that the user didn’t need raised sights to be able to co-witness,” said Mossberg’s Richard Kirk. “The Shield RMSc footprint allowed a deep milled slide cut where the user could mount an optic that’s not wider than the slide, and they can also co-witness low-profile sights.”
Co-witnessing is a big deal. Some shooters like to use the iron sights as an additional reference to pick up the red dot. But for me it’s all about the extra security of being able to shoot with the iron sights should the red dot malfunction or its battery die.
And if you opt to carry the MC2sc without a red dot, I find standard-height sights a lot easier to use. My test sample did not have a manual safety, but a model with reversible crossbolt safety is part of the lineup. The slide-lock lever sits flush thanks to the subtle frame molding around it, but it isn’t as minimal as you’ll find on some guns.
That’s a good thing. While I’m typically a grab-and-slingshot guy when it comes to releasing the slide during a slide-lock reload, the Mossberg’s lever is big enough—and in the right location, at least for my hands—to drop the slide without having to shift my grip on the pistol.
Mossberg did a good job with the magazine release, which is reversible. That process is well described in the manual. The release has kind of a horseshoe shape with raised projections that keep your thumb from slipping off the release. While it too has subtle frame molding to guard against an accidental mag drop, the button is easy to reach and depress.
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The polymer frame is glass-filled nylon and has an accessory rail, which is fairly unusual on micro-compact guns. The rail is notch-less like the SIG P365’s, and lights and lasers that fit a P365 rail will fit the MC2sc.
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MC2sc Breakdown
The forward portion of the frame has dished-out, stippled rectangles on both sides. These help you locate your forward support-hand thumb more consistently as well as provide a tactile clue that your trigger finger is properly indexed when your sights are not on target.
The texture consists of the same raised projections found on the magazine release. It’s also the foundation of the dual panels on the sides of the grip.
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I really liked the feel of these panels, so I broke out a magnifying glass, and on closer examination I think I can best describe the projections’ shape as minuscule Phillips screwdriver heads.
These panels don’t wrap all the way around the grip. On the frontstrap and backstrap you’ll find stacks of elliptical panels containing vertical serrations instead.
They give the gun some visual appeal, but more importantly, they make the gun really well behaved in your hand without abrading it.
The safety-blade trigger is flat, and it has a full quarter-inch of take-up followed by a bit of creep before breaking. On my sample the pull was a pound lighter than its 5.5-pound spec, and it was consistent from pull to pull.
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There’s a molded-in overtravel stop at the back of the trigger guard, and the guard is roomy enough to accommodate all but the bulkiest of gloves. On a frigid High Plains day I shot the gun with three different thicknesses, and only my big waterfowling gloves posed a problem.
The MC2sc incorporates Mossberg’s Safe Takedown System. To disassemble the gun, drop the mag and lock back the slide. Ensure the gun is unloaded. With the slide still locked to the rear, push in the slide cover plate button and pull down to remove it.
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I found using a non-marring tool like the end of a plastic gun brush to be easier than doing it with my finger or thumb. Grasp the slide firmly to control it and press the slide lock lever to release the slide, guiding it forward. As the slide moves forward, the striker assembly with its yellow plastic sleeve can be plucked out.
Remove the slide. That’s it. No trigger pull required. Once you get the hang of pushing in the cover plate button, the STS works really well, and not having to pull the trigger is an extra safety measure many will appreciate.
Accessorized
The gun ships with an 11-round flat-base magazine and a 14-round extended magazine, and both are made of steel that is coated for friction reduction.
They have orange followers and are stamped “MC2” on the front. I’m a fan of brightly colored followers because they give an additional visual cue as to the gun’s condition. The magazines have witness holes that are numbered at 5 and 11 on the flush-fit magazine and 5, 10 and 14 on the extended mag.
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The big magazine’s extension continues the grip’s serration pattern. A small cutout in the magazine’s base plate provides a place to dig in with your fingernails in the event a mag doesn’t want to drop free on its own.
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However, there were no such issues when running the MC2sc through a series of drills. Yes, your little finger will tend to trap the magazines during speed reloads because the grip frame is so short, but if you’re mindful of this, the mags slide in and out of the well with ease.
I didn’t have a ton of ammunition on hand, but the MC2sc functioned with all of it—full metal jackets, synthetic jackets and jacketed hollowpoints. It’s surprisingly controllable for such a small gun, especially when used with the extended magazine.
Various rapid-fire exercises at 10 yards brought all A-zone hits, and the gun performed well on shoot/move drills, too. I think a lot of this is due to the pistol’s 18-degree grip angle. As someone who shoots 1911s a fair bit, this angle is familiar to me, and the MC2sc points naturally—like a much larger handgun.
I also like the slight palm swell, which allowed me to get a full hand wrap on the grip. Further, the trigger guard is nicely undercut, enabling the high hold that helps manage muzzle rise. The trigger worked great throughout the drills. It has a nice, short reset, and you’ll have no problems hearing it and feeling it.
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I had a CrossBreed outside-the-waistband holster that fit the gun close enough for government work, and the MC2sc drew nicely and holstered easily. The holster isn’t one I’d choose for daily carry when light clothing is called for, but I wore the rig under a wool-shirt covering garment and hardly knew I had it on.
I’d expect that in an inside-the-waistband holster this would be a really easy pistol to dress around, especially with the flush-fit mag.
As you can see in the accompanying chart, the MC2sc produces great accuracy, and overall I don’t see how you could go wrong with this gun. But what makes it stand out? After all, there are plenty of well-built, reliable micro-compacts out there. Capacity, for starters.
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All those rounds in the extended mag could mean the difference in a fight for your life. As Kirk mentioned, the deep red-dot slide cut allows co-witnessing with regular sights, which not all pistols can do. The Safe Takedown System is certainly going to appeal to many folks.
I especially like it for its excellent shootability. It handles well and is easy to conceal. The DLC coating on barrel and slide—both of which are stainless steel—are also a selling point to me. And last but not least, it’s an American-made pistol offered at a price practically anyone can afford.
Mossberg MC2sc Specs
- Type: striker-fired semiautomatic
- Caliber: 9mm Luger
- Capacity: 11-, 14-round magazines supplied
- Barrel: 3.4 in. DLC-coated stainless
- OAL /Height/Width: 6.25/4.3/1.1 in.
- Weight: 19.5 oz.
- Construction: DLC-coated 416 stainless slide; glass-filled polymer frame
- Trigger: 4.5 lb. pull (measured)
- Sights: steel 3-dot (as tested); Shield RMSc-footprint slide cut for red dot
- Safety: trigger blade (tested)
- MSRP: $599
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The Concealed Carry market is thriving with more people than ever choosing to carry a handgun for personal protection. Some of the most popular pistols on the market are the latest generation of ultra-compact 9mm polymer frame pistols with double-stack magazines like SIG Sauer’s P365. Why? They are easy to conceal and you can carry them all day without noticing they are there.
Yet, they chamber a service pistol caliber and carry a large reserve of ammunition. So, they provide respectable terminal performance while also having substantially more ammunition than a traditional single-stack gun, like a Glock 43. In the case of the Mossberg mossberg mc2sc, one 13-round magazine plus a spare 15 rounder and one round in the chamber provides 29 rounds of 9mm to protect you and your loved ones with.
All in a small but still easy to hit with pistol you can happily carry day in and day out. This is important so you actually have it when you need it. Basically, any problem that can be solved with a pistol can be solved with a Mossberg MC2c.
The idea of Mossberg making a pistol was a wild fantasy until a few years ago, and now they have a serious contender for the “I need a compact 9mm pistol that holds a bunch of bullets” contest. The mossberg mc2sc has a just under four-inches long barrel, and the frame, made of polymer, is long enough to contain a 13-round magazine.
That also makes it long enough that even those of us with big mitts can get a full set of fingers on the frame. If you want more, Mossberg also ships it with an extended magazine holding 15 rounds, and sells extra magazines as well.
The slide, made of stainless steel, can be had one of two ways. You can get it in the bare, matte-finished stainless, or you can have it done in Black DLC (Diamond-Like Coating) to keep it low-profile. On top of the slide, mossberg mc2sc puts a set of three-dot night sights, mounting in transverse dovetails, as your aiming system.
By using dovetails (easy to machine, simple to deal with) you can easily fine-tune the sights to whatever load you are using. Move either or both just a bit left or right, and you can shift the point of impact.
If the point of impact is too high or low, then you simply swap out the front or rear for one that moves the group to the sights. My prediction is this: you won’t have to. However, if you have a specific preference, and want to exchange the mounted 3-dot sights that come on it for some other brand of Tritium-capsuled night sights, that’s easy to do with the dovetails.
The barrel is one-piece with an integral feed ramp, and a fully-supported chamber, so you need not worry about brass life should you be one of those who practice and load your own training ammo.
Behind the chamber, mossberg mc2sc has mounted a hefty, spring-loaded extractor, to haul the fired cases out when it cycles. The slide has cocking serrations both in front and behind the ejection port, which is also the locking abutments for the barrel. No internal locking lugs, just the simple and straightforward lock the barrel to the slide in the ejection port opening, here.
One detail on the mossberg mc2sc that you see only on some other pistols in this price range, is the profile of the slide snout. The front end of the slide is rounded, so as to make it easier to re-holster one handed. Had Mossberg left the muzzle end blunt, getting the pistol back into a holster would be more work.
Anything that makes it more work increases stress and adds a bit of hazard. Also, by making one-handed re-holstering easy, it avoids the too-common unsafe reaching back with the off hand to pry the holster wider. That’s always a bad thing, and the mossberg mc2sc slide design helps avoid that.
The frame is polymer, with the polymer composition reinforced by the addition of glass fibers. By mixing glass fibers into the polymer, mossberg mc2sc strengthens the polymer in exactly the same way rebar does for concrete. The front of the dust cover of the frame has an accessory rail, with a single cross-slot.
This is in part because the serial number is on a metal plate inset in the dust cover, and adding a second slot would mean no room for the serial number. Also, you only need one slot, because this is a compact pistol. You aren’t going to be mounting a goiter-sized light/laser on the end of it.
The frontstrap is gently curved to aid in gripping, without becoming designated finger grooves. The problem with finger grooves is that they never seem to correspond to the actual fingers of anyone who is holding a pistol. Mossberg makes it even more secure without making it un-ergonomic.
The frame also has molded-in non-slip panels of texture, also to keep the mossberg mc2sc solid in your hand. There’s a slight but noticeable palm swell in the frame, so you get some more grip retention from the ergonomics of the swell. The mossberg mc2sc does not have a backstrap that can be swapped out for something of a different size.
This is all the rage in design, and yet I have never found changing sizes made any difference in shoot-ability. Now, if your hands require a particular size, and the mossberg mc2sc is not it, then I have to say for you the lack of a swappable backstrap might be a deal killer. Then again, I have not run into anyone who found a compact 9mm to be “too big” or “the wrong size” so in this regard Mossberg just made life easier.
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The trigger guard is over-sized, so even those with big mitts, or when you might be wearing gloves, will find the trigger guard opening is not restrictive.mossberg mc2sc
The trigger is straight, with a flat-blade safety lever in the middle of it. The trigger pull is refined, compared to the early days of striker-fired pistols, and while it is heavy enough to be a proper defensive trigger, it is light and clean enough that you can shoot good groups with it. At the other end of the frame, the magazine well has a small shoulder at the back, working as a guide on reloads.
The magazines are steel tubes, with polymer baseplates on the bottom. Long gone are the days when magazines were designed to be holders of .40 S&W ammunition, and then given crimped-in grooves to proportion them for 9mm. As proper 9mm magazines, the MC2c mags are slim, and while the flush-fit magazine holds 13 rounds, Mossberg makes an extended version that holds 15 rounds.
The mossberg mc2sc comes with one of each, and spare magazines can be had from Mossberg for $28. So, with the flush-fit 13-round magazine in your mossberg mc2sc, one in the chamber, and two extended magazines on your belt, you have 44 rounds of 9mm emergency-handling ammunition at your disposal. That is very reassuring if you get caught in a bad situation and facing a violent mob or multiple attackers.
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At the range I noticed the magazines loaded easily until the last few rounds which required a bit more effort. The mag well is large, so inserting magazines is fast and easy. Rounds chamber smoothly and the trigger is acceptable for its intended usage.
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The sights are bold and easy to pick-up at speed. Recoil is not bad with standard pressure loads but a bit snappy if you step up to +Ps. Due to its relatively compact nature, it is very important to obtain a good grip before you draw it. It presents quickly and is fast on target. Follow-up shots are slightly slower than with a larger and heavier pistol, but still plenty fast for personal protection.
Plus, the large magazine capacity allows you to service multiple targets before you need to reload. Magazines ejected with the push of the button, and fresh ones inserted easily and locked securely into place. Accuracy all the way back at 25 yards was quite good.
The mossberg mc2sc sent here did not fail to function with any ammunition I had to feed it. One I tried is my competition load, a 125-grain lead round-nose that is coated with a polymer coating by Blue Bullets. I load it over 4.3 grain of Vihtavuouri V-330, in part because I have a truckload of that powder on hand, but mostly because it is a soft-shooting and accurate load.
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It just makes Minor in most pistols, and is so soft to shoot it is a great load to have new shooters fire to get them used to a centerfire pistol. It, like all the other ammunition tried, shot to the sights, shot nice-sized groups, and functioned the MC2c 100%.
Disassembly of the MC2c will require that you actually read the owner’s manual, or read it closely. Unload the mossberg mc2sc. Lock the slide to the rear. Press the center panel of the rear face of the slide in with a fingertip. Now slide the rear plate assembly down off of the slide.
You can now wrangle the striker assembly out of the slide. That is the part that has the yellow/orange guide tube on the rear of it. With the striker assembly out, you can then grab the slide and control it, and release the slide stop, allowing the slide to now move forward off of the frame. From there, it is the usual scrub the gunk, lube the friction points, and reassemble.
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