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The most reliable shotgun is the one you still own, and for me it's a Benelli SBE, have shot 1 heavely for 13 years, in some of the nastiest weather and conditions. Now there was other brands there with me, and their owners think they are the best. I recently bought a Beretta 686 3 1/2, new, at a VERY dicounted price. I have put some biggens thru it, and it kicks, but not bad.
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I've owned a few shotguns.....semi autos, O/Us, and sideXsides.

The only gun that I had real trouble with was a Browning Gold.....

the rest were quite reliable and that includes Smith&Wesson 1500, Remington 1100, and Win 101, Browning Citori, and SKBs sideXside and 505 O/U

I might pick up a Winchester SX3 for a goose hunt, but love the SKB O/Us......great and reliable guns!
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Originally posted by hivolt hivolt wrote:

Oh Boy Bear,

your looking for an argument, Pump guns are some of the best for hunting, Model 12 Winnie is the cream of the crop IMOP, followed by a 37 Ithaca, I personally have never cared for Remington shotguns because of the fit, but hey a good shotgun for the shooter is one that fits him well and shoots where he is looking, If a shooter gets those two things in a gun he will always claim its the best gun ever made, as he should because he will shoot it better than most every other gun and have tons more confidence with it.

I will hang with my Brownings,

 

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Buy an after mkt stock and have a GS fit it to you it makes the Rem 870 a heck of a great shooter.I have one with a high grade walnut stock that originally was fitted to a man about my size 6'2" & 250 lbs. I've fired thousands of  rounds via trap,money shoots & hunting bandtailed pigeons,mtn quail,gray squirrels & grouse.I bought it used from the widow of shooter it came with trap & skeet barrels along with a 20g with trap & skeet barrels plus some ammo for both for $220 in the 1970's. 
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well here we go.......I use a Mossberg M500 w/choke tubes for duck and turkey hunting, with WWII type camo "plastic" stock and it works great and I like the tang safety too as that makes it ambi as I shoot off left shoulder.  then my M97 is a great gun too but I don't use it with steel shot and none of my SXS or O/U's ever jammed or failed me either.  I have a LH M870 that I shot trap with for many years but I don't care for the safety location, also have a M37 Win that was my first shotgun, a 12ga FC, 36"bbl that I bought for $10 when I was 14.  The shotguns I use the most are  the M500 for spring turkey and fall ducks/geese then switch to 20ga SXS or O/U for grouse, pheasant and sometimes a O/U 28ga for grouse.  Once in a while I use the 12ga M/L sxs (repro) cyl bore for pheasants...it works fine too!
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This started when I was getting "pumps are unreliable" during a pheasant hunt.  I'm not down on o/u, SxS, or autos (except for the weight of autos).  I now own all, except for an auto; sold my 1100--too heavy and not needed since I learned to shoot.

I like the 500 and its thumb safety, although most guy hate it.  maybe because I started  with SxS I like the thumb safety.  I have   mod 12 in 16 that is the old "proofed steel barrel" model, and it is fine, even if it does only have a single action rod.  The model 12 also has a take-down system that leaves it short in two pieces; I think this is why the Mafia liked this shotgun.
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Ithaca model 37! has no challenger!
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And it bottom ejects.  I have a "double screw" model in 16.
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The Browning BPS is a bottom ejector.  Seems to fit me better than the 870.  Kinda pricey, though.
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The bottom eject were always popular with lefties
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Most third world country police forces pack 870, a last word in fighting reliability. I would guess that if it would drop a bad guy, it can sure as HELL knock birds down, not to mention the thousands of sporting clays that I have dusted, along with trap and skeet.  Wait, I didn't touch on Benellis. Those are some of the best autoloaders out there and I particularly like the M1 Super 90...........................................Kingpin
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the 870 12 ga and two barrels made this trip.  28 modified for a 300 bird pheasant tower shoot.   took a short barrel with a poly-choke for anything else, with a red dot sight.  got 20 slug and 25 buckshot.

Brought 300 rounds of win #5 .  i think the 870 will do it all here.

 

added 50 rounds for the double barrel 8x57, and threw in a 38 snubby just for 2 legged predators
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