First shotgun recommendations?
- Thread starter Skeebap
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Mossberg Maverick 88 28in barrel
Charles Daly 20gauge 26in barrel
The 20 gauge has you covered for pretty much all the water fowl hunting you will ever need. The Maverick 88 can be dual purpose if you want, longer barrel for hunting, shorter barrel for bear defense etc. Both good guns, both will kill critters dead!
Charles Daly 20gauge 26in barrel
The 20 gauge has you covered for pretty much all the water fowl hunting you will ever need. The Maverick 88 can be dual purpose if you want, longer barrel for hunting, shorter barrel for bear defense etc. Both good guns, both will kill critters dead!
Unfortunately, many shooters don't even understand shotgun fit, they don't know what to check for. Running a skeet field, probably half of the new shooters show up with shotguns that don't fit them, and they don't even know it.
This is why I joined this forum, to learn things like this.
Why are there minimum barrel length rules for clay shooting? Safety...?
I understand turning up with a tacticool 14" barreled shotty to shoot clays would probably be a waste of time for accuracy reasons.
It leaves me wondering what the intended use is for these 'tactical' guns with barrels 18" and under.
Tactical shotguns received a major boost in sales since the BAD guns were placed on the list. It’s a replacement that fills the void of not having a black rifle. It would be the poorest choice for your intended purposes. Buy a quality gas gun or inertia but like SJ has stated, FIT is everything in a shotgun!! Best of luck
Barrel lug and magazine style, mostly. You can swap barrels between 500's that have a blind magazine, but 590/590A1/835 use a different lug to fit over the mag tube.
I've never asked at our club but would speculate that part of it is safety. It's easier to control your muzzle on a longer gun and easier for others to see your gun is pointed in a safe direction. The second would be noise. Shorter shotguns are louder. The third is they are the wrong tool for the job.
A short-barreled shotgun is more like a large caliber rifle than a shotgun particularly if it has ghost ring or rifle sights. I use mine to hunt deer during the shotgun-only season and for pest control on my rural property. I have tried using it to shoot clays and didn't hit nearly as well as my longer barreled guns.
You don't need a straw, or a tube, just close your eyes and shoulder the shotgun, then open your eyes without moving any other body parts. Are you looking along the rib, or down at it? Is the rib centered left to right?
The biggest mistake that many new shooters make, is closing one eye, and trying to aim a shotgun using the beads as sights. With a shotgun, you keep both eyes open, and concentrate on rhe target, not on the beads. Trying to aim a shotgun like a rifle usually results in following the target way too long, and stopping your swing. You need to keep the gun swinging, until after you pull the trigger, or any lead you have established is lost, and you shoot behind the target.
Bustercluck
CGN Regular
- Location
- Fort McMurray
I’m not doing the same thing as you, but I’m leaning towards a Huglu in a sxs. I’m shooting a browning bps in .410 atm, but I’m really not a fan of the pump and I’d like to run a different choke in each barrel. Huglu also make some o/u as well. I want a model with 2 triggers and removeable chokes. I’d like to handle one before I buy, but I might just pull the trigger and chance it.
It will always be a compromise, but I could shoot skeet, sporting clays, waterfowl and upland with one shotgun, and do quite well at all of those things, if I had to.
Licensed to kill
CGN Regular
- Location
- Peace Country Alberta
In as much as you can play tennis, racket ball, squash and badminton with a single racket. It CAN be done but there is a reason that different rackets are used for different racket sports.
Not even remotely the same, I can take a semi auto like my Browning Maxus, or an A400, and shoot waterfowl, upland birds, and still be competitive at skeet and sporting clays. Many people actually choose a semi auto like those two, for all four of those activities.
