help! what shotgun do i need to buy???

[frenchyguy]

i have long been into tacticool shotguns, i usually hunt with my rifles. but i want to get into coyote hunting, and here outside of a short season, it has to be a shotgun, but no ball or slug. i want a semi auto, with fiber optic sights, or the option to install a readily available one. i assume i am looking for an extra full choke for long shots? so removable chokes. also i would like it chambered in 3.5 inch, but i would like the option for recoil reduction, without sticking that horrid looking limb saver slip on pad. what am i looking for?

 

[jonesbb630]

i have long been into tacticool shotguns, i usually hunt with my rifles. but i want to get into coyote hunting, and here outside of a short season, it has to be a shotgun, but no ball or slug. i want a semi auto, with fiber optic sights, or the option to install a readily available one. i assume i am looking for an extra full choke for long shots? so removable chokes. also i would like it chambered in 3.5 inch, but i would like the option for recoil reduction, without sticking that horrid looking limb saver slip on pad. what am i looking for?

You are looking for a Benelli Super Black Eagle II.

 

[l_montour]

was thinking the same thing, good choice. Agreed x2

 

[Winchested]

Pick up a gun with Rifled sights already on a smooth bore barrel, or if you are mounting a scope to shoot slugs buy a rifled cantilever barrel.

 

[Winchested]

It doesn't matter which gun you pick they all do the same job, its just the gun that fits you is the better gun. So regardless of what we all say our top pick is, pick something that fits.

 

[sherlockbonez]

Problem with rifle sighted barrels are they usually not threaded for chokes.

 

[JamesM]

Mosseberg 935.

 

[jonesbb630]

Mosseberg 935.

Only thing about the Mossy 935, it won't chamber 2.75" loads. I know this guy is looking for 3.5" but it's always nice to be able to use smaller loads if desired. Mossy still make a decent gun and a lot cheaper than a Benelli SBE II.

 

[sherlockbonez]

Why would it not chamber a 2.75 shell? That doesn't even make any sense.

 

[looch]

Not enough gas to cycle the action, I'm guessing.

 

[sherlockbonez]

But it should still chamber, no?

 

[JamesM]

The 935 will chamber 23/4" shells its just very picky when it comes to ones it cycles reliably, the one I tried only liked 1550 or faster steel loads or the old 13/8oz lead loads.

 

[jonesbb630]

It may chamber no problem but not designed to cycle reliably. The gun is simply designed for 3" and 3.5"

 

[looch]

But it should still chamber, no?

Chicken/egg - if it doesn't cycle, then the next round won't chamber.

 

[pharaoh2]

Skip the 3 1/2 inch chamber and pick up a Stoeger 2000. It will accept Beretta tubes and is nice and light at a third of the cost of a Benelli with the same operating system.

 

[jonesbb630]

Skip the 3 1/2 inch chamber and pick up a Stoeger 2000. It will accept Beretta tubes and is nice and light at a third of the cost of a Benelli with the same operating system.

Inertia Driven? Yes, but not same kind of Inertia system.

 

[pharaoh2]

Inertia Driven? Yes, but not same kind of Inertia system.

It's Benelli's original design.

 

[jonesbb630]

It's Benelli's original design.

No it's not. Benelli has a different design inertia system and wanted to own the inertia driven and were arguing on who has the patten. Instead of fighting it in court, Benelli/Berretta bought Stoeger.

Benelli Beretta are old, founded, excellent hand made italians guns using the finest metal quailty and computer design (benelli)

franchi is italian and doesn't have as long a history..

and stoeger is made with low grade metals in Turkey with guns turned out for cheap on machines,

fit and finish plus metalurgy is not comparable. Hence the price. My benelli has never failed me once EVER yet. and it was worth it. Get what you pay for.


The fact that Benelli/Beretta's holding group bought stoeger doesn't mean they like stoeger, it just means they didn't want competition to their ID designs so they absorbed them, but thats where the similarities end.

Also all of the companies above are seperate companies entirely, no relation other than their parent company who bought them all up. Benelli licenses their patent to their rotatry inertia bolt design to franchi and stoeger but how they use it and for how cheap is up to them.

 

[pharaoh2]

What ever you say...

 

[frenchyguy]

decided on a browning 10 gauge 3 1/2" BPS pump. it has one hell of a wallop!