Quick poll....what to buy next?

[orangeninja]

Your choice?

 

[sm]

You don't say what purpose this Shotgun will serve.

I'm not into "goodies", just gun fit to shooter, BA/UU/R ...training and practice falls into this as well.

Unless you have a niche to fill...don't really need a SG...what about lessons, ammo, a Mec reloader...

I choose to buy one of the Big Four products. Quality for the money, if parts are ever needed, or something to assist in gun fit...especially years from now...

 

[Black Majik]

Remington 870.


... Marine Magnum...

 

[Smoke]

Since you say "another" 870 I assume it's safe you already have one. Pick a platform and stick with it. Accesorize as needed.

Smoke

 

[Dave McCracken]

Ammo....

 

[orangeninja]

I guess I should stick with the 870....but once in a while I pick up a mossberg and I hear classical music begin to play while a small silvery shaft of light shoots out of heaven and illuminates the gun while it gently spins midair in front of me.....haha I guess I've got the bug.

 

[TrapperReady]

As long as we're spending your money...

Get all of them, then do a detailed range test and write up.

 

[HSMITH]

Ammo, it doesn't matter what you have unless you can shoot. Forget all the tactical garbage, the toys and the gadgets. Shoot 5000 rounds of shot on clay targets and 500 rounds of slugs on stationary targets from 15-75 yards away in the next year just the way your current 870 is right now, THEN evaluate your shotgun needs.

 

[sm]

Agree with HSMITH

Hey H... how many rds was it you shot to wring out that shotgun in a short amount of time? IIRC it was a "few"

 

[HSMITH]

I used to limit it to two cases per shooting day to avoid getting sloppy back when I was shooting a lot. There were more than a couple weeks where I consumed 8 full cases of shotshells per week. Cleaned guns every couple weeks or when they got wet LOL. I doubt I could maintain form for more than 6-8 rounds of skeet per day right now.....

Practice is not enough, perfect practice is what is needed. It took me years to figure that out. Back then I went through somewhere around 25 different shotguns, some of them looking for hardware solutions to software issues too. The bottom line is when you can shoot the particular shotgun that happens to be in your hands doesn't really matter a lot. A couple shots to figure out where it shoots for you and then it is simple execution from there, leave the excuses at home. Reliability above all else.

 

[sm]

Yeah I can "kinda" relate...*ahem*...

One gets a strange look when they buy 2 cases of ammo...two days later buys another 4 cases...when the gunstore guy says "whatcha do with the two cases you had?" and I reply " I shot it already...I'm testing/breaking in/patterning a new shotgun and building up my supplies of hulls to reload".

Then one has that "little problem" of not being able to get a car in the garage...that pallet of shot/wads/primers...takes up space...got to feed them 6 or 8 reloaders ya know

hardware solutions to software issues

Yep - beware the man that shoots one gun - he knows it - well!

 

[Brian Dale]

Yep, y'all beat me to it. That's OK; you know more than I do anyway.

Ammo.

 

[BlkHawk73]

Out of that group, the only one I'd pick up would be an 870 but for my purposes, it would be the wingmaster or something more along that line.
Not into "accessorizing" a shotgun. It either works or it doesn't for a particular purpose.

 

[seeker_two]

Count me with Dave McCracken, HSMITH, & sm on this---BA, UU, R...

When you get good with the ones you have, then look toward getting something else to master.


(And I wonder why the gun companies never want me to write their advertising... )

 

[orangeninja]

my reason for asking is I have seen a lot of used guns come through and some new ones for great deals...

for instance....a 200 dollar marine magnum remington 870 that belonged to a police officer. He never used it...shot his issue one instead and traded it back in on a carbine...etc. 18 in barrel the works. Another is the CDNN stuff that seems too good to be real etc. I guess I will stick with what I have for now...though my next one will be a 20 inch mossberg that holds 8. I like the idea of the capacity...how does a mossberg stack up next to a remington anyhow?

 

[HSMITH]

The 590 and 835 series guns are equal to the 870, VERY good shotguns. The 500 and lesser guns like the Maveric 88 are not even worthy of mention in the same sentence as the above. Nothing wrong with having a backup, unless it is at the expense of having learned the primary gun intimately. If you can only pick one, pick skill.

 

[Fastlane]

I need another 870P, this one with ghost rings..