Truck gun on the cheap?

[Motodeficient]

You can get some decent new 12 gauge pumps under $200. I liked my 8 shot 20" maverick 88 12 gauge. Could get a Hi-point carbine as well. Still shooting a handgun round but it would be a little more accurate at longer ranges and have a little more oomph with the longer barrel. The bonus being that you could use the same ammo for the carbine and your sidearm.

 

[straitnate14]

Get an Ithaca 37 in 12 and you will never look back!

 

[NWCP]

Find a Mossberg 500 12GA. Inexpensive and reliable. Pricing would be close to your $ target.

 

[.45Guy]

What are you going to use it for? Can't shoot deer in OH with a Rifle and only 3 days can you use a Shotgun. Are you planning to take out varmints? You going to shoot driftwood floating down the Ohio River??

My guess would be the same reason I always have a .22 on the tractor... You never know when the Varmint Cong will try to overrun the farm.

 

[Viking24]

Gun snobs need not read any further-> Kel-Tec Sub2000 in same ammo/mag config as your ccw. As a semi-reformed (i still hate on Hi-points) gun snob I had a chance to shoot a Sub2k (after I finished making snide remarks about it) and what a blast!

Ok, its not an HK94 or P90 but for $300 I have what I think is the perfect truck gun. It's affordable ~$300 new. It's plastic so you can bang it around w/o much concern for its looks. It folds in half to an impossibly small size that tucks away in places a normal long gun cannot (keltec makes a very cool little softcase for it).

Most important of all I can stay legal by keeping it unloaded yet I can drop the mag from my Glock 22 and transition to a carbine in 5-10 seconds. I haven't chronoed it but I'm guessing 180gr loads are about 1100fps I can hit an 8" plate at 100yds all day long with it off hand which is good enough for me.