Folks,
Let us remain civil please.
Mossberg? Didn't see any growing up. Then again I was brought up with Knowing how to shoot more important what you shot. Now-a-days folks say
Hardware trumps
Software.
Do a search under
dfarriswheel here in shotgun forum for all sorts of data whom uses what and why. Mr. D is a respected member, with qualifications, and cites to back him up. He is not selling magazine subscritions either.
Gun fit to shooter for task, training, pattern board, practice what training taught you. Dave puts it BA/UU/R.
Can YOU reach all the controls on ____ shotgun? Does the LOP, drop, cast on - cast off, pitch ...fit YOU?
If you want to know what
Team Walrus uses - I am the only person that knows.
I invented
Team Walrus for some things I wrote to pay respects to known trainers - and to poke fun at "inner-net" wannabes and blowhards.
Real Deal? Took out a rabid raccoon the other evening, mean critter and was coming at us full bore. Concerns of "in fear of family pet and children".
I used a shotgun, just like the one I use / keep handy for HD.
NEF Youth 20 ga single shot - load was Rem slug - complete with the speckled rust on base of shell.
Shot, hit, thumbed opened, spent hull out, inserted another that was in weak fingers - shot again and reloaded. Ruark said to shoot twice - so I do.
Think Tueller drill, with a racoon coming out of brush...
Had a lady backing me up, she uses a 1300 in 20 - it fits her. She has run 100 buckshot in a day, and 100 slugs in a day. I know she has shot 10 rds of skeet in one day...she can shoot, she shoots that gun very well. 5'2" on her tippy toes, and petite. She can handle the large counts of heavy loads, and round counts - she has the correct basics down pat.
If a Mossbery fits you fine. If you are left handed and the safety works for you - fine. They do not for me, because of the way of I was taught to shoot a shotgun, and where my thumb is...same side of reciever as trigger finger.
Shoot a short LOP and figure it out.
I/we suggest to set up the house guns for the smallest person in the house. A big person can shoot a smaller gun - a small person cannot shoot a bigger gun.
Be it weight [ext mag, sidesaddle], guage, LOP...
Art and Science...Brister said it best.