Official MM Firearms Thread

[CaptainHenreh]

http://www.browning.com/products/catalog...flag_=011B

I use this for actual bird hunting. Once you get good with a pump, its just about as fast as a semi...i only ever miss from taking a bad shot, not being slow.

*eyeroll* for what a browning pump costs you could get a nice semi auto. Pumps are good because they are cheap. When they stop being cheap, they stop being good.

I discuss buying a shotgun in my thread:

Rex, I want to buy a Shotgun.
Cool! I shoot my shotgun probably more than any other gun I own! It's alot of fun, and shotguns are VERY versatile boomsticks.
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I normally recommend you purchase the most expensive shotgun you can afford. You will never say to yourself, "Gee, I wish I'd bought a cheaper shotgun." This is true of any firearm, really. But I digress, there are 3 main types:
Over/Under (or SideBySide):
Pretty much the simplest design. Two tubes, a hinge in the middle, and a trigger assembly. Good for all the sporting clay games (most popular with this crowd, I'd say) and they definitely have an element of style. Excellent for hunting also. However, they only hold 2 shells at a time, they tend to be expensive, and they aren't really all that good for defense.
Semi Automatic:
They can be gas powered or recoil powered, but basically as long as you have shells loaded in the magazine, every time you pull the trigger that puppy is gonna spit lead. They are good for sporting clay games, good for hunting, and excellent for self defense. However, they tend to be more maintenance intensive and more expensive than
Pump Action:
The most common footprint of shotgun. Each time you fire, you must manually "pump" the action backwards to eject the spent shell and then forwards to load a new one before you can fire again. These are inexpensive and reliable, but not as good for the sporting clay games as the previous two.

The only pump shotguns I own are legacy items. Besides price there is literally no upside to a pump action, but lots of downsides. (Slow, short stroke malfs difficult to clear, etc)

I'd look for a Remington 1100/11-87, Winchester SX3, or, if you must, a Mossberg 930. The turkish recoil-driven Beretta clones are also quite good, though not as nice as an italian example.

I either own, have owned, or have run many rounds through all of the examples I give. I also own or have owned 870's, 500's, and Browning BPS's and the only one I currently possess is a 20ga BPS, as it was my grandfathers.

Do what you want, but that's my advice and on this subject, I know what the fuck I am talking about.