SwampWolf
Member
Worst shotgun i have owned? "topper" 20 ga. Useless for anything recoils hard, and takes forever to load/cock... I have alot of guns and this is the only one that serves no purpose but it was inherited so it sits.
Well, it is a single-shot and all single-shots take a while to "load/cock" and it is light-weight and all light-weight guns recoil harder than their heavier counterparts, so I'm not sure it's fair to blame H&R for their rendition of an inexpensive, single-shot shotgun. The same criticisms could be leveled equally at the Topper's competition (Winchester Model 37, Iver Johnson "Champion", etc.) for all the same, unfair reasons.
They're all cheap, light-weight, single-shot shotguns that served an honorable role for the shooting/hunting public they were intended for (a kid's first shotgun, a farmer's tractor gun, a shotgun stowed behind a door in the mudroom of a midwestern farm house to ward off chicken-killing, marauding coyotes and foxes, etc.). I, for one, lament the passing of this shotgun genre.