Poll: Shotgun Poll?

[Argonaut]

Seems like the most logical option to me. I will never go back to a right handed shotgun, after owning my lh 870 wingmaster...

I shoot right handed pumps and autos fine but my best 870 is left handed. I know some people are sensitive to empty hulls going across there face, I guess I am not. I have a magnificent Remington M17 20 gauge we had restored for my wife. It is built on the John Browning M37 patent (ejects down) before the war. It is a true small frame gun. Weighs less than 6 lbs. Remington also built a large frame 12 gauge version, both for short periods of time. I learned to shoot trap with my 1100 LH TB trap gun. It was nearly flawless over the tens of thousands of rounds I shot through it. We would frequently shoot 400-500 rounds a day 6 days a week.

 

[Unka-Boo]

So....as a fellow south paw, why not a LH 870, a Browning BPS or Ithaca M37.

Because I'm handicapable

It's funny....I only own two LH guns, a Lakefield target .22 and a Romy AK build.

 

[notazombie]

CZ 712 semi for me.
I used to have an old Marlin Glenfield 778 that had the most butter-smooth action of any pump I ever shot. Wish I'd kept it.

 

[Joe13]

I grew up with a buddy that owned a Mossberg clone, it was called the Maverick 88. Every time he pumped it, he scared all the ducks away. It (the slide/pump) was so loud that they heard it from a mile away....MANY times, I felt like tossing that sob in the river....

My dads gun is actually very nice, it took a very nice bird gun for me to Simi retire it. Although I have only used it on clays and falling jugs with some buck shot for fun.

 

[Kruel J]

Thanks... I try my best to take of it.
I still hunt with it... but on nice days only and I'm real careful where I step...
We will have to get together so you can shoot it...
Andy

Oh, I'd love to rack a few through that beauty. My dad gave me a 20 gauge 870 a few years back but it was the youth model and I'm way too stretched out for an 11" LOP so I sold it with his blessings. It went to a good home, a young dad bought it for his son's first scatter gun. I was good with the sale and still am.

 

[Argonaut]

Perrazi
Parker
L.C. Smith
Rem 3200
Ruger Red Label
SKS
Charles Daly
Purdey
Browning Superposed
Browning A5
Browning Citori
Ithica 37
Remington Model 31

Not a bad list, You are obviously a man of taste and experiance, I don't know about a SKS shotgun (maby an SKB?) and some Charles Dalys are not good. The name was used as a label for many different shotguns in the later years, many that were not up to his standards. The Prussian ones are the best, you never know what you are going to get with the Spanish examples. I don't do Oriental guns but the quality can be very good. My Superposed Broadway trap locks up like a vault and has been shot a lot since it was built in 1958....off course with the Brownings, you have to be careful with salted wood. L.C. Smith is a world class design and quality gun. Good list.

 

[Stomper]

Mine's the Jerry Miculek version. Ah, nothing too special or fancy. But effective.

Oooooo.... yours got the "underbite" mag-tube!

 

[ZA_Survivalist]

Started with the 870 so Im sticking with it.

For semi auto Ive been eyeballing the Mossberg 930

.. and admittedly the chinese SAS12, just because its cheap and takes box mags.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

This one is kinda fun too.
It's a 12 / .44 shotgun rifle combo...Circa 1850-60
The locks are new and I had to make front and rear sights along with the ramrod for it.
I have shot this one a bit...but no game has fallen to it...yet ( at least for me )
Andy

 

[CountryGent]

For a working and defensive shotgun, the Mossberg 500s. Here's a pic part of our scattergun line up:


From the top: Mossberg 500 in 12 (2¾ and 3"), Mossberg 500 Youth in 20 (2¾ and 3"), duly-registered Baikal SxS SBS in 12 (2¾"-only), and a duly-registered Mossberg-pattern Super Shorty in 12 (2¾ and 3").

 

[Argonaut]

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This one is kinda fun too.
It's a 12 / .44 shotgun rifle combo...Circa 1850-60
The locks are new and I had to make front and rear sights along with the ramrod for it.
I have shot this one a bit...but no game has fallen to it...yet ( at least for me )
Andy

Very nice, is the rifle barrel smooth bore or rifled? The triggers look like a set trigger, how do they work? Some old German gunsmith built that one. You can still get similar guns new.

 

[USMC-03]

Winchester model 12. No finer pump action...

 

[etrain16]

Oooooo.... yours got the "underbite" mag-tube!

Probably like this...

 

[etrain16]

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This one is kinda fun too.
It's a 12 / .44 shotgun rifle combo...Circa 1850-60
The locks are new and I had to make front and rear sights along with the ramrod for it.
I have shot this one a bit...but no game has fallen to it...yet ( at least for me )
Andy

What a unique gun

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Thank you!
Yep it has a set screw for the rifle trigger only
I have it adjusted to how I like ... but I have not "weighed" the trigger pull

The rifle barrel is rifled with a fast twist set up for bullets...I use a .429 diameter .44 caliber all lead bullet to good effect.

I haven't found any markings on the gun...but I'd agree some old time German Gunsmith put together a great gun.
Andy

Very nice, is the rifle barrel smooth bore or rifled? The triggers look like a set trigger, how do they work? Some old German gunsmith built that one. You can still get similar guns new.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

What a unique gun

Thanks etrain....one day we will get together for a shoot ... I'll be sure to bring this one if you like...
Andy

 

[Argonaut]

This is the next gun I am going to buy....hopefully it won't sell before I can do it. A little newer version and over under 16 ga 9.3X72.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

That is very nice!... I hope you can get it.
Andy

View attachment 395761 View attachment 395760 This is the next gun I am going to buy....hopefully it won't sell before I can do it. A little newer version and over under 16 ga 9.3X72.

 

[Argonaut]

That is very nice!... I hope you can get it.
Andy

Me too. It is probably pre war Austrian (Ferlach) if I didn't have so much to do before the snow flies, it would already be here and I just bought another Merkel.

 

[Argonaut]

I am a sucker for this kind of wood to metal fit, pop up sights, engraving....