BPS vs. 870

[cracked butt]

I see. I missed that qualification in your original post. My bad.

 

[Gordon]

I recently got a n 80's production 870 in 28 ga. I fired it couple hundred times at trap range. At the range I met a gent with a 28ga BPS a couple weeks ago. We swaped guns for a round. This was my impression: the 870 'shucked' more positively, you could feel the stuff working and very positively. The BPS was more indistint in it's throw but once it started it did go all the way to rear effortlessly. I didn't like the way the rib raises up on the browning, I like the rib on the 870 as it lets me get my head down for a good spot weld. The BPS was nice but I like the 870 better. Finish about the same on my 80's gun and his 90's gun. His gun was tubed and mine not, a plus for BPS. I like my 10ga BPS and wouldn't trade it for any thing else for wildfouling(ducks and geese) in US.

 

[WhiteKnight]

His gun was tubed and mine not, a plus for BPS.

I beg your pardon, but I'm not familar with the difference between a "tubed" gun and and "untubed" one. Does this mean his had a magazine extension?

 

[Gordon]

chokeTUBE.

 

[WhiteKnight]

I shoot more ducks with my 24" turkey bbl than my buddies with their 28 and 30" bbls. See, most of our hunting is in timber and using decoys most of the time. We hunt some big water but still use decoys. I can reach plenty far with a 24" bbl and choose whatever choke I want. It's also a good pheasant bbl.

Now, for other game birds like quail, etc., I like 16ga & 20ga's so I don't even give thought to that with my turkey and duck gun(s). BTW, I have many Brownings and a few Remington shotguns I have purchased over the years, I leave the 28" and 30" bbls home anymore.

So you wouldn't consider a 24" tube to be a handicap? What about hunting over a lot of water/fields/sporting clays?

 

[Dave McCracken]

WK, no handicap to a 24" barrel. Some of us do better with the longer ones due to balance issues.

 

[YammyMonkey]

My dad has been using an 870 since long before I was born (26 now) but after I got a BPS for pheasant/waterfowl he decided to switch to the Browning as well. Liked the feel of it and the bottom eject better.

If it were my money I'd spend a few extra $$ and go with the BPS over again. Assuming, of course that another Citori wouldn't work for me.

 

[WhiteKnight]

I got a BPS for pheasant/waterfowl

Which model did you get?

 

[45Badger]

Something to be careful of-

I had a BPS "game gun", came with a rifle sighted barrl witha turkey choke tube, and a rifled choke tube. I think it had what they referred to as a "no drop at heel" stock. This was very comfortable in shooting as a "rifle" but was awkward whn I put a 26" barrel on it and used it to shoot clays.

OTOH, my "regular" BPS was (is) a great shotgun for wingshooting, but when I put a Hastings cantilevered scope mount barrel on it, it beats the SKGHIUG(&*PYT out of my shoulder.

Make sure you get the stock configuration you want/need.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Make sure you get the stock configuration you want/need.

Sound advice.

I've compared all of the Browning BPS models and decided on the non-magnum chambered Mossy Oak Break up 3" chambered 26" barreled gun.

As of now I'm also considering purchasing an 870 Wingmaster instead.

Decisions, decisions.