What's the worst shotgun you've ever owned...

[45crittergitter]

Remington 11-87 Special Purpose. Broke during the first box of ammo. Remington wouldn't send a replacement part. Bye-bye Remington autoloaders.

 

[Armchair Bronco]

The first shotgun I ever purchased was a 1957 Mossberg 185-K bolt action 20 gauge that I used for trap shooting. The barrel had a factory vented barrel with rectangular cutouts just behind the factory PolyChoke.

I actually liked the gun a lot (it reminded me of the Mossberg 183 .410 bolt action I'd learned to shoot with when I was a little kid) and I actually got pretty good with it.

But whenever I had a hard right from #1 or a hard left from #5, I'd spray the adjacent shooter's face with hot powder from those dang ports. They were pretty good natured about it, but eventually I used this as an excuse with my wife to buy a proper trap shotgun and sell the Mossberg.

So, although I told her this was "the worst shotgun I could own for shooting trap" it did give me a good reason for buying a 1967 Winchester 101 O/U trap gun.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Borrowed a Savage model 30 pump shotgun in 20 ga. Single sided slide bar binded up, safety popped out of the tang. Gun was brand new.

While I love my Savage rifles that shotgun was a lemon.

 

[Virginian]

The first shotgun I ever purchased was a 1957 Mossberg 185-K bolt action 20 gauge that I used for trap shooting. The barrel had a factory vented barrel with rectangular cutouts just behind the factory PolyChoke.

I had the exact same first shotgun, except a couple of years later version. The C-Lect choke and a few inches of barrel parted company with me and the rest of the gun one fine day. Mossberg fixed it, but I sold it quickly. Never could hit anything flying with it in any event.

 

[USAF_Vet]

not mine, but the worst I've shot is my step dads .410 bolt action. The thing is ancient, and you really have to crank that bolt through the paces or the thing won't feed a shell from the tube, and if it does feed from the tube, odds are it won't feed into the chamber. Accuracy was awful, if you could get it to feed reliably. Biggest POS I stand to inherit.

 

[PoserHoser]

My dad has literally had two mossbergs fall apart while shooting.

 

[ShawnC]

I would kill to get my Mossberg back, just to get rid of my American Arms single shot 10 gauge.
The forestock screw is loose, but won't come out, and the forestock is held in place with duct tape so it won't wiggle.

 

[RNB65]

Browning Gold. It cycled completely reliably but has a stock made for someone with Paul Bunyan sized hands and handled poorly. I hated it. The guy I sold it to hates it and never shoots it. The guy he sells it to will hate it.

 

[JWF III]

I was beginning to think I was going to be the first to list the 11-87. Though my experience wasn't really the gun (it was in a round-a-bout way).

It never broke or FTF. It just didn't fit me. I grew up shooting doubles with a lot of drop in the stocks. (I absolutely love the old Stevens 311 series that several people have been complaining about shooting low in this thread. BTW, I'll even pay the shipping to properly dispose of any 311 that anyone wants to trash.) With the straight stock on the 11-87, I couldn't hit anything. Clays, game birds, rabbits, paper targets (pattern board) it didn't matter. (BTW the pattern board was the last shots it fired from me.)

In fact, the only bird I ever killed with it was a hen mallard. Only problem was I was "aiming" at (I know you don't aim a shotgun) the drake that was about 5 feet below the hen.:banghead:

The real strange thing is though, I have an 870 express that somedays it seems like I can't miss with. I gave up trying to figure that one out.

Wyman

 

[azgun]

I love all my shotguns. I have 7

Judge magnum
H&r tamer 410
mossberg 500
Mossberg 500 crusier
Mossberg 590a1
saiga 12
and a h&r 12 gauge single shot