Shotgun Opinions....

kjmatson · #21 07/31/08, 07:28 AM

I would love to do a test on both the 500 and 870 (I have owned both for years).

Sammy · #22 07/31/08, 09:00 AM

Another vote for the Remmy 870 !

tn_junk · #23 07/31/08, 09:03 AM

Go to local pawn shops.
You can get a good used gun (Remington or Mossberg) for about 1/2 what a new one costs.
I picked up a Ithaca 37 last year for $175.

alan

poorboy · #24 07/31/08, 10:58 AM

Several remingtons in my life, but the one pump that i have kept in the last 45 years is a mossberg pump bought new in 1972. Taken lots of game with it and made some great shots with it, still shuckin an shootin'....;-)

Irish farmer · #25 07/31/08, 10:59 AM

I like the 870. I have heard that the H&R Pardner pumps are low priced copys of the 870 and work great.

SteveD(TX) · #26 07/31/08, 11:09 AM

I'll chime in with the others and vote for the Remington 870. I've always had good luck with Remingtons over the years. The only Mossberg I ever owned gave me some problems - action was not as tight and smooth as the Remington and more shells jammed, etc.

poorboy · #27 07/31/08, 12:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Irish farmer

I like the 870. I have heard that the H&R Pardner pumps are low priced copys of the 870 and work great.

Have a friend that got one of the h&R pumps fer 150 bucks at X-mart, runs coyotes withn dogs a lot, says it's the "berries".

whiterock · #28 07/31/08, 01:44 PM

way to go folks, throw a cravin on an old country boy, had to go to town today, after readin this stopped at a pawn shop and picked up an almost new 870 express, mag.

don't figure it hurts none to have two of them.

Ed

sugarbush · #29 07/31/08, 05:26 PM

I don't do business with pawn shops...nothing like keeping theives in operation. I had some things stollen and later they turned up in a local pawn shop......even though I could prove it was mine and I had a police report showing them stolen; I could not get them back without buying them back....They kept the goods and I haven't set foot in a pawn shop since. I also check and make sure that when I buy off of ebay the seller is not a pawn broker....many sellers on there are.

DavidUnderwood · #30 07/31/08, 08:33 PM

Sugar, that crap won't happen in this state.
More likely to see the pawn broker locked
up than the real theif. No problem getting
what belongs to you out of a pawn shop
in NC. Done it twice myself.

NorthernWoods · #31 07/31/08, 08:45 PM

Mossberg 500, never again. I ended up smashing mine against a tree. Every hunting season I walk past it's rusted corps. This is coming from a guy who grew up with a 20lb. Sears Roebuck bolt action shotgun.

Ithaca Model 37 Featherlight is all I need now. Never a jam up, nice and light, smoothest action out there...kicks like mule though. Put hair on my chest.

sugarbush · #32 07/31/08, 08:47 PM

It was actually in North Carolina that this happened....in Greensboro four years ago. The broker was on Highpoint road near the I40 intersection. I know about the law that they have to report everything to the police before they offer it for sale. That is how we located it and we where told by the police that we had to pay the broker what he payed for it to have it returned because it was past the hold period of 40 days I think it was. One of the items was a dimond wedding ring that was inscribed. We walked away and filed an insurance claim.....We didn't care about any of the other stuff, just the dimond that had belonged to my wife's mother and grandmother before her.

sugarbush · #33 07/31/08, 08:53 PM

I will add that we haven't had anything stolen since we have lived in Kentucky..... almost 4 years now.....wew here broken into twice and had stuff stolen in just the two years we lived in Greensboro......I was supinoenad as a states witness twice in two years as well....Don't care if I never set foot in that state again.