Advise on semi-auto shotguns
11-24-2007, 11:56 PM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Southeastern Michigan
Posts: 225
RE: Advise on semi-auto shotguns
I am thinking of purchasing a Benelli SBEII, so I was wondering if you could elaborate some on the problems you've noticed with those guns?
ORIGINAL: Rammer
If you want a good auto here is my experience from owning all the "higher-end" autos.
Benelli M1 Super 90
Benelli M2
Remington 11-87
Browning Gold Stalker
I guide pheasant hunters, and I see all sorts of problems with 3.5" semi-autos, so I'd personally avoid them like the plague. The SBEs, Gold 3.5", Super X-2s, Super X-3s, etc.
I have also seen quite a few jams with the 1100s that my clients run, I have never owned one, but am considering buying an Upland 12 gauge version that is 2 3/4" to play with.
Franchi makes a very good mid-range semi auto. My buddy owns one, as well as alot of my clients, and they run great (these are 20 gauge guns).
I have 4 or 5 buddies with Stoegers, and as long as you run them dry (no lube) like a Benelli, they will take ALOT of abuse.
I'd avoid a Winchester 1400 at all costs.
If you want a good auto here is my experience from owning all the "higher-end" autos.
Benelli M1 Super 90
Benelli M2
Remington 11-87
Browning Gold Stalker
I guide pheasant hunters, and I see all sorts of problems with 3.5" semi-autos, so I'd personally avoid them like the plague. The SBEs, Gold 3.5", Super X-2s, Super X-3s, etc.
I have also seen quite a few jams with the 1100s that my clients run, I have never owned one, but am considering buying an Upland 12 gauge version that is 2 3/4" to play with.
Franchi makes a very good mid-range semi auto. My buddy owns one, as well as alot of my clients, and they run great (these are 20 gauge guns).
I have 4 or 5 buddies with Stoegers, and as long as you run them dry (no lube) like a Benelli, they will take ALOT of abuse.
I'd avoid a Winchester 1400 at all costs.
11-25-2007, 03:55 AM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 2,862
RE: Advise on semi-auto shotguns
The main problem I see with 3.5" shotguns is the guys don't know how to clean them properly. In order for a shotgun to work where I live, you have to run them BONE dry. I honestly see no need for a 3.5" shotshell unless you are hunting turkeys, a steel load will have a lil longer shot string, all the 3.5" shells are is a marketing ploy to sell more shotguns/shells.
As for the Win 1400 - Why on earth would you reccomend someone buying a shotgun that is no longer in production? And from the way you speak, you have "read" good things on them, but you have no personal experience? Why reccomend something you don't have any experience with?
As for the Win 1400 - Why on earth would you reccomend someone buying a shotgun that is no longer in production? And from the way you speak, you have "read" good things on them, but you have no personal experience? Why reccomend something you don't have any experience with?
11-26-2007, 07:05 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Where the ducks don't come no more
Posts: 4,420
RE: Advise on semi-auto shotguns
ORIGINAL: Rammer
As for the Win 1400 - Why on earth would you reccomend someone buying a shotgun that is no longer in production? And from the way you speak, you have "read" good things on them, but you have no personal experience? Why reccomend something you don't have any experience with?
As for the Win 1400 - Why on earth would you reccomend someone buying a shotgun that is no longer in production? And from the way you speak, you have "read" good things on them, but you have no personal experience? Why reccomend something you don't have any experience with?
11-26-2007, 08:01 PM
#24
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 2,862
RE: Advise on semi-auto shotguns
ORIGINAL: SwampCollie
That was my point...... Rammer just put it a little more bluntly than I did. Hence the name right.
ORIGINAL: Rammer
As for the Win 1400 - Why on earth would you reccomend someone buying a shotgun that is no longer in production? And from the way you speak, you have "read" good things on them, but you have no personal experience? Why reccomend something you don't have any experience with?
As for the Win 1400 - Why on earth would you reccomend someone buying a shotgun that is no longer in production? And from the way you speak, you have "read" good things on them, but you have no personal experience? Why reccomend something you don't have any experience with?
