By American Rifleman. Affordable, accurate and versatile, Mossberg’s bolt-action MVP rifles have expanded into a full line that can handle applications from varmints to big-game hunting to patrol rifles for personal-protection applications. But can one rifle really do it all? The concept of an all-purpose rifle is not a new one. Since the early days in America our frontiersmen and women expected the rifle in their hands to deal with whatever task might be before them. Because they might have to collect meat for the table, dispatch varmints, or deal with the two-legged varmints that often made life troublesome, the pioneers seldom had racks of rifles designed for specific shooting chores. One rifle was expected to do it all.
In more modern times, Col. Jeff Cooper designed a similar rifle. His Scout Rifle concept was designed to fill most hunting needs and still provide protection for the armed citizen. Cooper experimented with several bolt-action rifles and finally settled on one with a short overall length, a forward-mounted scope and chambered for the .308 Win. cartridge.
I like the whole concept of the multi-purpose rifle and prefer to call them “Utility Rifles.” All of which brings us to the MVP line of rifles from Mossberg. Essentially, Mossberg redesigned its bolt-action rifle so that it would function using AR magazines to allow for greater magazine capacity. However, instead of coming up with a single rifle design, Mossberg built a family of guns around two patent-pending bolt designs that allow 7.62mm NATO (308 Win) chambered rifles to accept both M1A/M14 AND AR10-style magazines and 5.56mm NATO (223 Rem) rifles to accept AR15-style magazines.
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