The most reliable shotgun

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Going he 10yo down Fine Firearms Yesterday and got him set up on a 20ga Mossberg 500.

In my experience which is thousands and thousands of rounds through one of these with little to no care they are the most reliable shotgun ever built.

Change my mind.

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I got my 12 gauge about 35 years ago. They are like Timex watches, they take a licking and keep ticking. Like yours, thousands of rounds.
 
Back when I first got mine I was shooting 12 gauge 3.5" mag 4X6 duplex mag. loads. Man those loads kicked far more than anything I had ever shot.
 
GUNDOGLOVER49 said:
Back when I first got mine I was shooting 12 gauge 3.5" mag 4X6 duplex mag. loads. Man those loads kicked far more than anything I had ever shot.
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John,

I used my Mossy Ulti 3 1/2" for waterfowl when we were forced to shoot steel...That gyn gave me headaches within minutes...Hence, the switch over to the Benelli SBE's.... :blush:



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I was looking the bantams up on sportsmans warehouse. Are the bantam and super bantam the same but with the super bantam having a spacer that allows the stock to be adjusted for 12-13” LoP while the standard bantam is fixed at 13”?
 
Rocked and Loaded said:
I was looking the bantams up on sportsmans warehouse. Are the bantam and super bantam the same but with the super bantam having a spacer that allows the stock to be adjusted for 12-13” LoP while the standard bantam is fixed at 13”?
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I am not positive but I think that is correct. I believe the super mantam also hasa thinne stock which was easier for his hands. And yes his came with the spacers
 
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I got an 870 my brother got a Winchester 1500 I think and my other brother got a Mossberg 500 to this date the 870 is the only one that is still working. The Mossberg had any ejection issue and you would shoot once at a dock, and when you pump it, the other two rounds would go out the bottom because it couldn’t eject the High brass round. If you shot dove loads, it would eject those no problems I vowed from then to never shoot or handle another Mossberg.
Until I got a 935 really cheap but then those had cycling issues.
Nova has been pretty good for me. But I always go back to my 870. I have three of them. I mean had three of them until I lost them all in a kayak canoe accident on the river.
I carried a Bonelli M4, super 90 on deployment in Fallujah when I was a driver. Flashbacks to my old road hunting days on ditch chickens. Always good to have a trustee shotty in your front window.
Most of our breaching shotguns were 870s
I stand inherit my dad’s old 12 gauge Wingmaster that he got for $70 back in the 60s. And that thing still shoots great.
 
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I have owned several 500's over the years and all of them functioned perfectly under all conditions. The quality may have improved over the years, but the ones I owned back in the Stone Age reminded me of the AK47 from my USMC days. That rifle was made of old beer cans, or so it seemed, lots of stamped parts and felt a bit flimsy in your hands. But it never failed---never. Our M16's were solidly built, machined parts and all, and they failed constantly. Lots of Marines took AK47's from NVA casualties and used them until the politicians in DC found out and since the politicians were in bed with Colt and Armalite, that practice stopped in a hurry. The 500 is similar to the AK, seems a bit flimsy and machine tolerances [at least back then] are not the best, but it never fails.

Go for it, and good hunting.
 
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