Can i pay to shoot shotguns?

fuse said:
Well, the moment she doesn't hold up to a vow, buy another gun. Your sick, she doesn't take care of you, boom, new gun.
Try to have a conversation with her, you'll need more than one gun to know the one gun you want for life. Can you imagine marring the first girl you dated? Had to try a few before you found your match.
Unless she was your first, then say " I can't see my could in a gun like I could with you".
Or just buy what ever you want any way. 100% of divorces start in marriage so you my as well get a head start.

Also, Consider an Beretta 300 Outlander. They come with adjustable shims allowing many changes to the stock including switching it to left hand if the need ever arrives.
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You know how to persuade
 
thegazelle said:
It's too bad I don't have any of the guns you are considering. Would be willing to take you to my club as my guest...

If you are ever considering an M4 or 1301, private message me. I have been looking for an SBE3 for quite some time and if I end up getting one I'll private message you.

Agree with others - a club that either does rentals may be able to help, but they won't have everything. Maybe someone here in the GTA would have one of those three models and can take you to their club, if their club allows guests.
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Thank you I appreciate that! I might have to take up on the offer :). You a tactical shotgun fan?
 
danielfishercanada said:
Do you think there is negligible difference when it comes to gas vs. Inertia shooting 3 inch shells?
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Probably a little bit. As well as different loads will make a difference. And probably some other factors. Like fit, form. I from what I've read inertia needs a solid back stop. Haven't shot an inertia but have a few others. Maybe Im not that fussy
 
danielfishercanada said:
Thank you I appreciate that! I might have to take up on the offer :). You a tactical shotgun fan?
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Just a fan of shotguns in general...saving my pennies for the AX800 when it comes out.

I actually am looking for another one as I have heard that the M4 and 1301 may be on a LPC chopping block coming to a Gary near you (apparently anything semi auto is being considered)...

I have a 1301 Mod 2 and a Comp Pro - the pro lifter is a game changer and the kick off stock on the Comp Pro is such a welcome addition for my Mr. Burns like old man body with bad shoulders...

I was going to get an A300 Ultima Patrol - was "on sale" at Cabela's and I had it in my cart and I was going to buy it just in case the 1301 gets banned - it's essentially an more dated / older version of the design 1301, with some shared features. But while I have a Mr. Burns body, I don't have a Mr. Burns bank account...
 
Back when I was younger, and married to a wife who wasn't enthusiastic about guns (but she didn't try to limit me), I developed a habit that got her to enjoy me buying a new gun. Every time I bought a new gun, I bought her something of significance that she really liked or wanted. Sometimes it was jewellery, sometimes something else. Always something that would have been considered a luxury, not a necessity that we were going to buy one day anyway. It totally stopped the argument that I was "spending too much on guns".....a "me" thing......and she felt like things were fair then.

I never told her I was going to do this. I just did it.
 
Just an idea for you if you can't get your hands on the guns you want to buy. How about pick up a cheap, Turkish shotgun in the style you want and shoot it a ton all summer, then sell it and get the gun you really want in the fall? Resell for firearms is pretty good and you should be able to get 60-70% of new.

That will get you enough trigger time to narrow down exactly what features are important to you and being out at the range you likely will be able to check out some nicer guns just chatting with other shooters you meet.
 
gorby said:
Just an idea for you if you can't get your hands on the guns you want to buy. How about pick up a cheap, Turkish shotgun in the style you want and shoot it a ton all summer, then sell it and get the gun you really want in the fall? Resell for firearms is pretty good and you should be able to get 60-70% of new.

That will get you enough trigger time to narrow down exactly what features are important to you and being out at the range you likely will be able to check out some nicer guns just chatting with other shooters you meet.
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If you shop around and purchase a used Browning or Beretta, you can usually get almost all of your money back If you purchase a new Turkish shotgun, you might get 50-60% back when you sell it.
 
gorby said:
How about pick up a cheap, Turkish shotgun in the style you want and shoot it a ton all summer, then sell it and get the gun you really want in the fall? Resell for firearms is pretty good and you should be able to get 60-70% of new.

That will get you enough trigger time to narrow down exactly what features are important to you and being out at the range you likely will be able to check out some nicer guns just chatting with other shooters you meet.
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This is good advice...and you'd be surprised by what you may end up liking. For a long time, I dismissed all Turkish guns. I thought it was essentially the gun version of buying pirated DVDs, back in the day, but not quite. I also swore off certain calibers as something I would not be interested in doing.

While I haven't been buying much factory ammo from retailers, just buying from the secondary market - the ammo I HAVE been buying is .410, something even a year or two ago I would have said no thanks. And you know why? Because somehow, I ended up picking this Turkish single shot .410 for cheap (retail) and the thing is a hoot. Shooting 3" slugs - I get the wicked fireball coming out of that things. It has been a pleasant surprise, and glad it was one for which I kept my mind open.

Even a few years ago when I was shooting my M4 regularly, I met up with a fella on another site who told me about his 1301. I laughed it off and said no way I would be interested in that - I love my M4. Well, years later and here we are. I actually like the 1301 better than the M4 - B-Link system and the wicked pro-lifter is the cat's meow, all day long... I also never thought I would buy an O/U, but here I am with several of them. Maybe I am aging faster than I should and come to find appreciation in things that I feel are more substantive in quality as opposed to the visual aesthetics or glowing internet reviews.

There are a bunch of affordable Turkish shotguns that at least allows you to try out different things on the cheap. Sometimes you buy a very very expensive gun thinking that is what you want - and then once you get it, it is ho hum and you wonder why you pined for it all those months and years (for me it was the Kriss Vector and SL8). If the OP is new to firearms - even in this social/political climate, the world is his/her oyster.
 
danielfishercanada said:
You know how to persuade
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Shiny things, nice dinners out, and paying attention when she says she likes something. Buy what she wants, let her know there was a great sale on (insert gun here) on the same day you found (thing she likes), and bring them in together.

There's also the ethnic/cultural angle... my wife, 50% Italian, 50% Finn, wanted a bald sphinx cat years ago. I didn't, but I bought her one for her birthday.

On the way to pick up "Igor", I dropped by my LGS prior to picking up the ugly bald baśtard, and grabbed my 2nd Tikka, a T3X Varmint. Brought them in together, saying "here's your new cat, and check out this wicked Finnish rifle I got for less than what your cat cost." Dinner was sparse and cool like Finland can be, but no Italian flames shot across the table. Win/win.
 
thegazelle said:
This is good advice...and you'd be surprised by what you may end up liking. For a long time, I dismissed all Turkish guns. I thought it was essentially the gun version of buying pirated DVDs, back in the day, but not quite. I also swore off certain calibers as something I would not be interested in doing.

While I haven't been buying much factory ammo from retailers, just buying from the secondary market - the ammo I HAVE been buying is .410, something even a year or two ago I would have said no thanks. And you know why? Because somehow, I ended up picking this Turkish single shot .410 for cheap (retail) and the thing is a hoot. Shooting 3" slugs - I get the wicked fireball coming out of that things. It has been a pleasant surprise, and glad it was one for which I kept my mind open.

Even a few years ago when I was shooting my M4 regularly, I met up with a fella on another site who told me about his 1301. I laughed it off and said no way I would be interested in that - I love my M4. Well, years later and here we are. I actually like the 1301 better than the M4 - B-Link system and the wicked pro-lifter is the cat's meow, all day long... I also never thought I would buy an O/U, but here I am with several of them. Maybe I am aging faster than I should and come to find appreciation in things that I feel are more substantive in quality as opposed to the visual aesthetics or glowing internet reviews.

There are a bunch of affordable Turkish shotguns that at least allows you to try out different things on the cheap. Sometimes you buy a very very expensive gun thinking that is what you want - and then once you get it, it is ho hum and you wonder why you pined for it all those months and years (for me it was the Kriss Vector and SL8). If the OP is new to firearms - even in this social/political climate, the world is his/her oyster.
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1301s rock.
 
stubblejumper said:
If you shop around and purchase a used Browning or Beretta, you can usually get almost all of your money back If you purchase a new Turkish shotgun, you might get 50-60% back when you sell it.
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Fair enough, that is even better if he can find a decent deal on a used model he wants.

I do know if I could have only one gun it wouldn't have been the first one I chose. Until you get out to the range it is hard to figure out.
 
gorby said:
Fair enough, that is even better if he can find a decent deal on a used model he wants.

I do know if I could have only one gun it wouldn't have been the first one I chose. Until you get out to the range it is hard to figure out.
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The point is, that if you purchase a used Browning or Beretta, and it turns out that it isn't what you really want, you can sell it and lose virtually nothing, whereas you will lose a significant amount, if you purchase a new Turkish shotgun.
 
danielfishercanada said:
Do you think there is negligible difference when it comes to gas vs. Inertia shooting 3 inch shells?
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I can definitely tell the difference in recoil, but I am not overly recoil sensitive, so shooting a box on a hunt, isn't a big issue either way. For me. Now if I was to shoot say 200 rounds of 3 dram loads at sporting clays, and I was recoil sensitive, it could be significant.
 
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