A $225 Maverick 88 Security brings Nutnfancy back into the feed
The one new review tests Mossberg's budget pump gun after a long-time donor asked him to buy one, and old viewers are turning up in the comments to say hello.
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$225 American Made Shotgun U Can Trust: Maverick 88 Security
Three days old, "$225 American Made Shotgun U Can Trust: Maverick 88 Security" is the video carrying Nutnfancy's channel, and it has already passed 56,000 views. It was the only upload of the week, and it pulled the whole channel to roughly three times its usual daily pace.
The subject is a humble one: Mossberg's Maverick 88, a cheaper cousin of the famous 500 and 590 pump guns. The description says a long-term donor asked him to buy one and test it, and it frames the review around his old warning against judging anything on price alone. He grants that the gun is a little rough around the edges, then measures it on materials, durability, function and reliability, and he still keeps the Winchester 1300 in his description as his pick for the best pump shotgun.
The comment section reads like a reunion. Several viewers say this is the first Nutnfancy video to reach their feed in years, and one plans to rewatch the Astrovan series. Others swap their own Maverick stories: a cousin who bought five when they were cheap, a gun put on layaway at Kmart and paid off with lawn-mowing money, a hiker's shotgun carried for feral hogs. A few owners add that the action smooths out with use.
Older reviews are moving more slowly. A ten-day-old update on the Beretta APX A1 Full Size Tactical, which he calls worthy of his Hall of Fame, sits a distant second, and a summer look at the S&W Bodyguard 2.0 .380 trails behind it. The subscriber count held where it was.
Among weapons and geopolitics channels of a similar size, this was a smaller week. Max Afterburner had the group's biggest week by a wide margin, and Administrative Results and Mrgunsngear both ran well above their usual pace. For Nutnfancy, the week was one shotgun and a comment section full of old regulars.
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What viewers say
My cousin found them for $150 a few years back and bought 5. His logic was 1 for him, 1 for his wife, 1 for son and 1 for daughter and 1 because they were $150.
@davidjackson1141See it on YouTubeThe Maverick action gets smoother with use.
@PassivePortfoliosSee it on YouTubeI had my mother put this on layaway when I was 16 years old at Kmart mowed lawns and picked it up for around 150 bucks at the end of summer and abused it for years, never had an issue…love this gun!
@Homesteader-mcgeeSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on nutnfancy right now
- Channel
- nutnfancy
- Subscribers
- 866,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 146,692
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- October 2, 2026
- Video views so far
- 56,154
- Views on its first day
- 37,718
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💡 Test your knowledge
The Maverick 88 is a budget cousin of which famous Mossberg pump shotgun?
Maverick Arms is Mossberg's budget brand, and the 88 is built on the design of the Mossberg 500, as the review itself points out.
