barnbwt
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I admit it; I'm a bit embarrassed I don't have much experience with pumps. I had a Franchi I12 semiauto I couldn't shoot worth a darn (poor fit) which I replaced with a Franchi O/U (which I shoot like a laser beam). A break-open is pretty self explanatory, as far as controls; a pump, less so.
I'd like to get an inexpensive ambidextrous pump some time in the near future, and I've narrowed it down (I think) to the Browning BPS, Ithaca M37(my current favorite), and to a lesser extent the Remington M17. Particularly with the Ithacas, because of all the variations over the years, I have a few questions:
-Bump firing; it appears to allow the hammer to drop when racked for really fast rate of fire (but useless accuracy, I'm guessing). Is this a legal feature, and is it independent of the trigger (i.e. it always fires when pumped )?
-"Tactical" reload or topping off; is there anything preventing any of these guns from having rounds added to the magazine while a round is chambered?
-Do you prefer one of these platforms over the others? Better built, better trigger, etc?
TCB
I'd like to get an inexpensive ambidextrous pump some time in the near future, and I've narrowed it down (I think) to the Browning BPS, Ithaca M37(my current favorite), and to a lesser extent the Remington M17. Particularly with the Ithacas, because of all the variations over the years, I have a few questions:
-Bump firing; it appears to allow the hammer to drop when racked for really fast rate of fire (but useless accuracy, I'm guessing). Is this a legal feature, and is it independent of the trigger (i.e. it always fires when pumped )?
-"Tactical" reload or topping off; is there anything preventing any of these guns from having rounds added to the magazine while a round is chambered?
-Do you prefer one of these platforms over the others? Better built, better trigger, etc?
TCB