Do you hunt with your tactical shotgun?

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I just got my second Benelli M4, my first I sold to pay bills. Unfortunately I have this one in the EE already too, not because I need to pay bills or because it isn't a good gun. The gun is awesome, but I have issues tying that cash up in something I don't hunt with. So today I hit the range with it, brought a box of clays and 100 rounds of the cheapest target loads possible. After I got over focusing on the ghost rings I was dusting clays out to 40-50 yards with no issues.

I mostly duck hunt and deer in dense woods, this thing shoots slugs like a champ, but I am wondering about duck hunting. I can plug the mag to only hold two shells. I should mention I have a whole collection of choke tubes for the M4 as well.
 
Haven't used my M4 Super-90 for duck, but Mrs. Cannon & I used it for grouse. Worked fine. I'm not fond of the ring sights for hunting, though. But it worked just fine.

Cannon
 
I hunt with mine but i had to add a choke adaptor tube for better paterns.
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I hunted grouse this year with my 20" barreled Fabarm, its threaded for chokes. Once patterned it's been deadly, I made a plug for it. It's very accurate with slugs as well, I wouldn't hesitate to take deer with it when in the thick stuff. I usually have slugs at the ready in the side saddle while grouse hunting in case I see a deer while out walking around. I have no issue bushwacking with it, it's too nice of a shooter not to take it out and hunt with it.


 
I used my benelli m2 rigged up for 3 gun for ducks/geese for a couple years. Oversized controls are great for gloved hands. It shot slugs better than my buddies sx3, 870, and maxus smooth bore guns but I have an 870P I use for deer when a shotgun is required.
 
I hunt with my Keltec, it works better than expected, the short barrel and all, I got eleven grouse, six ducks and two Canadian Geese, not two bad in my books for only going out six times
 
M37 Ithaca Deerslayer Police Special, 4 shot variant with LAPD wedge type rear sight.
Took a wild boar at about 70 yards with a single Brenneke Classic slug.
Right through the heart, dead right there. Didn't even get a death squeal out of it. (mucho practice)
 
I killed a goose with my 18.5" cylinder bore. But I don't rely on it, and wouldn't be making bets on that same shot again. I am testing with slugs though, and learned that I need new sights to have a hope past 50 yards. I'm hoping that most any tactical can be a hunting gun with enough testing and tweaking.
 
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Sure do! Rem 870 Tactical with Magpul Stock and Forend, single point sling. Makes a great slug/turkey gun. Heck, I can even shoot skeet and trap with it. Shot a 23/25 in trap the other weekend, definitely got some angry looks from the $12,000 trap gun crowd...
 
Section of fibreglass tent pole cut to length, its hollow in the middle and I screwed a hard plastic washer to the end. It slips in from the front of the mag tube, eash to remove when I'm not hunting with shot and want to load a full 7 in the tube.
 
I've used my 870 for opportunistic rabbit and pest control, but I prefer a sporting configuration shotgun if possible.
 
Ill be using my versamax for skeet, trap, hunting and everything else in between. I sold 3 shotguns to fund this build ;)
 
Do you hunt with your tactical shotgun?


Simple answer: NO

Proper fit for tactical is short stock, barrel, and length of pull. Proper fit for hunting is balance, length of pull and good barrel weight for swing. Its not that you can't kill birds with a tactical shotgun, its simply a poor design for wing shooting.
 
I use a Mossberg 590A1 for deer/grouse hunting and turkey hunting. It has ghost ring sights and an 18.5" smoothbore barrel that I had threaded for chokes.
 
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