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 10-25-2009, 02:24 PM | #1 | Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 31 |  HELP!! I need your opinion on picking a shotgun!
I'm looking for a new shotgun. It needs to be suited for field and clay shooting. I have narrowed it down to the remington 870 express, mossberg 500 mariner 9 shot(would get longer barrel), browning BPS hunter, or remington 870 marine magnum(again, i would get a longer barrel). I really like the look of the marine shotguns and think i could use them in the field and in clay shooting if i put a longer barrel on them.
WHat are your opinions? Of these picks do you like best? | 
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| 10-25-2009, 03:04 PM | #2 | Drunk ninja Join Date: May 2009 Location: The woods, Arkansas Posts: 3,421 |
If you're going to use it for clays and/or field, you should buy a gun thats designed for that. My opinion... | |
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| 10-25-2009, 03:54 PM | #3 | Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 35 |
In my humble opinion the 870 express is just about as good as any pump gun around especially if you replace a couple of plastic parts with metal. Also, unless things are different today, they can be had in about any barrel configuration long, short, rem choke, straight, ribbed, rifled, etc., etc.
My 12 ga. has a 28" ribbed Remchoke. I use the IC choke for doves and the extra full for turkeys. __________________
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| 10-25-2009, 04:04 PM | #4 | Supporting Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: , SW Illinois Posts: 316 |
Both are fine choices. That said I prefer the 870 myself. It just feels better built than the Mossberg. I would not buy a new Express though. For the same price shop around and pick up a used Wingmaster. It will have much nicer fit & finish. | |
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| 10-25-2009, 04:05 PM | #5 | Moderator Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 5,562 Likes Given: 4
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Originally Posted by RED
In my humble opinion the 870 express is just about as good as any pump gun around especially if you replace a couple of plastic parts with metal. Also, unless things are different today, they can be had in about any barrel configuration long, short, rem choke, straight, ribbed, rifled, etc., etc.
My 12 ga. has a 28" ribbed Remchoke. I use the IC choke for doves and the extra full for turkeys.
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+1. You have several barrel options and it and takes less than a minute to swap a barrel. The 870 is relatively inexpensive and very reliable.
(My 870 is about 20 years old and has no plastic parts. Well, it HAD no plastic parts 'til I added a pistol grip, collapsible stock, etc. Where is there plastic nowdays on an 870 out of the box?) __________________
When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you against them but protect them against you...you may know that your society is doomed. ~Ayn Rand | |
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| 10-25-2009, 06:47 PM | #6 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 159 |
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Originally Posted by suprdave
If you're going to use it for clays and/or field, you should buy a gun thats designed for that. My opinion...
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yep.
all those pump actions the op talked about are good guns, i have the rem 870 myself, but for strictly field/clay i would think an over under double barrel would be best.
i think mossberg makes a relatively inexpensive one. | |
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| 10-25-2009, 07:24 PM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Lebanon, Ky Posts: 3,624 Likes Given: 1
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Don't dismiss the Browning BPS too quick. I've had 3 of them personally and loved them. Of those 3 I'd choose the BPS for field shooting/trap/hunting, and Remington 870 for home defense/tactical. __________________
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| 10-25-2009, 08:51 PM | #8 | Supporting Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: , Newfoundland Posts: 389 Likes Given: 1
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Browning Auto 5. | |
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| 04-15-2011, 01:53 PM | #9 | Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: madison, wiscosin Posts: 150 |
remington 870 marine magnum  | |
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