Many of those options aren't available new anymore. The 8.5/12.5 grizzlies and barrels, 14" Mossbergs and a few others are only available used now. Occasionally someone gets some 14" Mossbergs but they're not being imported right now. You can still buy the 14" conversion kit and Dlask makes short 870 barrels. I think the last big shipment of 14" 870 barrels have all sold, not likely to find one in stock. So nowadays you have your choice of cheap Turkish short shotguns or pricier used grizzlies, mossbergs or building one with pricier parts. The days of $300 grizzlies and $600 14" 590A1's are gone unfortunately.
Short barreled shotguns
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Many of those options aren't available new anymore. The 8.5/12.5 grizzlies and barrels, 14" Mossbergs and a few others are only available used now. Occasionally someone gets some 14" Mossbergs but they're not being imported right now. You can still buy the 14" conversion kit and Dlask makes short 870 barrels. I think the last big shipment of 14" 870 barrels have all sold, not likely to find one in stock. So nowadays you have your choice of cheap Turkish short shotguns or pricier used grizzlies, mossbergs or building one with pricier parts. The days of $300 grizzlies and $600 14" 590A1's are gone unfortunately.
Buying things when they were available, essentially.
Nothing lasts forever. Especially when it comes to overseas production runs. A lot of Chinese manufacture is based off large batch runs. They makes 1000's of a given gun, maximize the economy of scale, warehouse them, and then sell them off over time. By the time the batch has sold, a lot of times years have elapsed, and the factory has been re-tooled to something else entirely.
With the Chinese economy in boomtown mode over the past few years, a lot of the guns we were getting cheap a reasonably short time ago, they simply couldn't produce for anywhere near that cost now. There's a concerted effort from the Chinese government to push their economy to higher value manufacturing, so the golden days of "cheap Chinese" guns is largely gone.
Brutus
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Agree with grelmar here.
Years of waiting and a hawk eye on the EE.
Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
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Got our grizzly’s from Canam when they were still available, picked up a 14” nea barrel that had been threaded for chokes off the EE for mine so I could hunt with it.
DA grizzly’s and HP9’s are not too hard to find on the EE currently if you check it regularly, or you can pickup a Rem 870 receiver used and build one from parts. Short barrels pop up on the EE and gunsmiths like Dlask manufacture batches of short barrels routinely, if you really want a shorty it’s not hard to get one. They just aren’t as cheap as they were a couple hrs ago, the 870 clones that is. Lots of new Turkish shortys out there but I can’t comment on how durable they are, I prefer the 870 or 870 clones.
All I need is an 870 receiver and I can put another shorty together with a takeoff stock and 12.5” barrel I have lying around, truck gun type of project.
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I'd like to post my favorite models for a SBS are...
#1 - Dlask Shorty 8.5 inch. I've ran two Grizzly SBS's prior and they worked well, but this action came like butter out of the box and the finish was far nicer. My number one go to.
#2 - Benelli M2 Tactical - Not as short but overall amazing Semi shorter length shotgun. Inertia action is smooth and responsive. Overall light weight.
#3 - Grizzly 12.5 Tube fed. Heavy but proven and at one time was slightly cheaper.
#1 - Dlask Shorty 8.5 inch. I've ran two Grizzly SBS's prior and they worked well, but this action came like butter out of the box and the finish was far nicer. My number one go to.
#2 - Benelli M2 Tactical - Not as short but overall amazing Semi shorter length shotgun. Inertia action is smooth and responsive. Overall light weight.
#3 - Grizzly 12.5 Tube fed. Heavy but proven and at one time was slightly cheaper.
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I got my Canuck 14" bbl 12 ga used with the optional choke inserts and optional butt stock, hand grip in the orig box for $150 and a case of beer (24).
Guy said he couldn't hit anything with it?
Works fine for me on northern Ontario grouse.
Nothing wrong with it.
I carry it with the butt stock attached.
Don't know if the hand grip configurations is legal or not??
Guy said he couldn't hit anything with it?
Works fine for me on northern Ontario grouse.
Nothing wrong with it.
I carry it with the butt stock attached.
Don't know if the hand grip configurations is legal or not??
I got my Canuck 14" bbl 12 ga used with the optional choke inserts and optional butt stock, hand grip in the orig box for $150 and a case of beer (24).
Guy said he couldn't hit anything with it?
Works fine for me on northern Ontario grouse.
Nothing wrong with it.
I carry it with the butt stock attached.
Don't know if the hand grip configurations is legal or not??
I think the 2 things I bolded might be related
Blasty, and you lose a considerable amount of power and have to exercise some caution in pumping it, depending on your fore end setup.
Fun to shoot though, and handy, although you're pushing the point of diminishing gains as far as handiness goes in going much below 14" IMO.
+1 the 14 inch barrel is the sweet spot, you give up very little in the way of patterning, capacity and accuracy but you gain a huge amount of agility.
