Best shot gun to shoot on?

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It seems like lots of people in this forum encourage shooters/hunters looking into their first shotgun to buy a Rem 877 or a Moss 500? Why do we not encourage them to get a decent gun as it saves money on the long run. Does everybody have to start out with a POS Mossberg 500 if he/she wants to hunt or have a pleasurable shooting experience? I don't think so.

I'm repeating myself but here's my take on the Mossberg 500 which I've bought after handling the 877 because I thought it must be the gun.

This Mossberg 500 field version came with a really beautiful "artificial", pressed checkering, wood stock that had no shooting ergonomics whatsoever. Maybe I should have liked that great creeping 10 lbs. trigger in the plastic assembly or the very precise rattling forend which acts like a game driver in the bush - but sadly I couldn't. Then I've almost made friends with the tire piece they screwed on the end of the butt stock. But sadly I had to care about the rust appearing on the well done blueing after a damp field day so my friendship with the butt pad couldn't really develop. So sorry... but still there was a shimmer of hope on the horizon in further "plastifying" the whole setup. Them critters, so I thought, would be tremendously scared when I show up with all the gizmos dangling from my plastic bomber. They will drop dead by only looking at this cannon. Unfortunately, I was wrong! After two close calls with charging grouse and a dangerously close rabbit which was even not scared by the steadily emitted rattle of the gun I decided to end my love affair. Good bye my dearly loved Mossberg.
 
I like my Mossberg 500, its cheap enough that i don't worry about scratching it, ergonomics are good, goes bang every single time, lightweight, I don't know, different strokes for different folks. If you can afford a Benelli, Beretta, Perazzi, Franchi, good, get one of those.
 
If you can afford a Benelli, Beretta, Perazzi, Franchi, good, get one of those.
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I don't want to afford one of those at this time but I may get a similar good product down the road. If you look around you will find alternatives that are superior to Moss POS and Rem 877 for just little more money (<$100) which can generate triple fun at 15% more cost.
 
riversrest said:
I don't want to afford one of those at this time but I may get a similar good product down the road. If you look around you will find alternatives that are superior to Moss POS and Rem 877 for just little more money (<$100) which can generate triple fun at 15% more cost.
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I've bought and sold a lot of Remington 870's and Wingmasters and like them even though do not shoot them as far as a pump shotgun goes.
The two Mossberg 500's I owned both had decent triggers and cycled well, and were not rough after I tore the down and lubed them.

Maybe you bought a bad Mossberg, I dunno, but I do know that there are guns made by every comanay out there that people love and others do not because they have had lousy experiences with one gun.
Quite often for a first gun the price point is an issue, and I never recommend a more expensive gun for that reason.
I have no idea what the OP wanted too do with his first gun nor did a pile of others, tha is why the responses are what they are here.

Cat
 
For what it's worth I have several Ithaca M37s.
Not one of them has left my possession and I've easily taken much birds and small game with them. I also have one SKB O/U that is equally deadly in the hunting fields. But much like Cat has had for a while, I have a recent affinity towards older double hammer guns. I have a Prussian drilling in country and I am presently in the process of importing a 10 gauge Wells Fargo & Co. coach gun from an American desert state.
 
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