Pump shotguns…. Useless?

[sh00ter]

An Over and Under can’t be beat for skeet, trap, sporting clays, etc. if you are a reloader.

I always wanted a Ruger Red Label. A Browning would be fine too!

 

[Foxfire5]

An Over and Under can’t be beat for skeet, trap, sporting clays, etc. if you are a reloader.

The well made cheap ones from Turkey with ejectors make for good sawed off defense Shotguns.

 

[dennishoddy]

I still have my Ithaca I used in Vietnam when protecting F-4U Phantoms and F-100's from VC Sappers. I learned to rack quietly for my own safety. However once fired all that quietness went South!

You got to bring your duty weapon home?

 

[dennishoddy]

I always wanted a Ruger Red Label. A Browning would be fine too!

Browning is far superior to a red label and a whole lot lighter.

 

[sh00ter]

Browning is far superior to a red label and a whole lot lighter.

And probably reflected in the price Is it the Citori if I recall?

 

[Foxfire5]

You got to bring your duty weapon home?

I was PMC.

 

[dennishoddy]

And probably reflected in the price Is it the Citori if I recall?

Browning Citori is lighter than the red label and more expensive.

 

[OKgetdown]

Pump action 12 gauge is my main line home defense weapons. There’s a couple laying around the house.

Shotguns for home defense. Handguns for carrying outside the house. AR for recreation and social unrest SHTF type situations.

 

[ssgrock3]

Thirty-forty years ago, trying to train, shoot three shot drills, transitioning to three different IPSC targets with a ”tacticaled” out Rem 870 slide action, I either tired out or tried to move faster than my current skill level (at that time) would permit and short shucked the slide several times. Frustrating, realize now I needed an instructor. Other than low skilled operator error, pump/slide action shotguns will function with less maintenance, perhaps even neglect, from the owner/operator than similarly neglected autoloaders, I believe. My practice is to maintain them all according to the manufacturers manual guidelines. One reason to sell off your pump shotguns to fund an acquisition like a Beretta 1301, (which I greatly admire) is, not enough room in the gun safe for another long gun. Okay, two reasons, to generate the funds for the Beretta. Once or twice a year, I like to take pump shotguns out to the plinking range and wear myself out firing bird and buck shot rounds at plastic jugs and cans. Does me some good. Reminds me to lean into that butt, enjoy felt recoil.

My beretta 1200fp pushes me backwards but fires fast enough to have 5 hulls in the air at the same time. It will send a wall of buckshot down range all of a sudden like

 

[ef9turbo]

I like them both, but I was trained heavily on an 870. I can run them fast (dosier drill 1.93 pump to a 1.45 auto) and hard, work malfs much faster, and load just about as fast. That’s just my preference, but it doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy running semis.