need help with a shotgun
03-21-2004, 09:05 PM
#1
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need help with a shotgun
What is a good shotgun for under 500 dollars. I know that i dont want a remingto becasue i dont like the 870 express and all that crap, but i was thinking along the lines as a Benelli nova, Stoger 2000, Mosseberg, etc... What is going to be the best one for the money, and will last me a long time, adn kill alot of turkey
03-21-2004, 10:15 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Alabama
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RE: need help with a shotgun
I have the Mossberg 835 and like it a lot. I've shot the Nova and don't particularly care for it. I don't like the one piece receiver and stock or the feel of the gun. Can't say on the Stoeger. There is another that you may be overlooking and that's the Charles Daly. I posted a question on here for a friend and found out some interresting things about them...such as a lifetime warranty on all their guns. My advice to you would be to look around the gun shops and handle all of the guns you've listed. Ask some gunsmith's about the reliability of the guns listed. Good luck in your decision, but by all means get the one that fits YOU the best.
03-22-2004, 10:02 AM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: St. Cloud MN
Posts: 354
RE: need help with a shotgun
Lots of choices out there. I've heard nothing but good on the stoeger 2000. Made by benelli for stoeger. Avoid the Charles Daley auto loaders. They have a lifetime warrently but you'll need it(and often). Their pumps and doubles are good guns though.
As far as pumps go you'll have lots of choices in that price range. I suggest trying them out and see which one fits you best. Really it's spitting hairs as too which one is better. Can't go wrong with remington, winchester, browning, benelli...
As far as pumps go you'll have lots of choices in that price range. I suggest trying them out and see which one fits you best. Really it's spitting hairs as too which one is better. Can't go wrong with remington, winchester, browning, benelli...
03-24-2004, 10:50 AM
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: SW Michigan
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RE: need help with a shotgun
Ithaca Storm Turkeyslayer...get one for about $425-50. Rated one of the best turkey guns on the market. Fixed free-floating barrel.
Ithaca just also introduced a Deer/turkeyslayer combo---storm series gun with detachable barrel---the combo comes with both a 24 inch ported turkey barrel (with extended turkey choke) and a fully rifled 24 inch slug barrel. Can be had for ~$500 without red dot scope, or ~$600 with a Tru-glo red dot scope.
Hard to beat an Ithaca...
Ithaca just also introduced a Deer/turkeyslayer combo---storm series gun with detachable barrel---the combo comes with both a 24 inch ported turkey barrel (with extended turkey choke) and a fully rifled 24 inch slug barrel. Can be had for ~$500 without red dot scope, or ~$600 with a Tru-glo red dot scope.
Hard to beat an Ithaca...
03-25-2004, 08:26 AM
#7
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ripley TN USA
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RE: need help with a shotgun
I bought a wally world A390 last year for around $500. In my opinion the best automatic shotgun I have owned! I sent it off and had it dipped in MO new BU; the gun is is used for doves, ducks, turkeys. It has never let me down even in below freezing temperatures in the duckblind. I shoot a briley's hevi-shot turkey choke in it with my own reloaded HS turkey loads. I initiated it on 2 toms last season and it just fricking blasted those birds. I shot one at 50 yards and he never moved!
