07-09-2010, 04:48 PM
I'd ask you what you were going to use it mostly for.
If you're going to be doing MOSTLY clay games, then buy the best semi auto you can afford, then keep it around for HD. If it's primarily for home defense, then buy a nice Remmy 870 or Mossberg 500. Maybe even Benelli Nova. That's a good pump.
The reality is that home defense and sporting are pretty mutually exclusive. You'll make sacrifices for home defense that will hurt your clay game. And a gun that's good for clays is generally longer, doesn't have rifle sights, and probably won't carry that many shells.
They really DON'T cross over very much. The good news is that a standard "home defense" shotgun is pretty cheap. So buy that, practice operating it at 0Dark30, and then buy another shotgun to play games with.
More and more, though, I'm finding a shotgun ill-suited for the purposes of Home Defense and have been considering some kind of pistol caliber carbine.
If you're going to be doing MOSTLY clay games, then buy the best semi auto you can afford, then keep it around for HD. If it's primarily for home defense, then buy a nice Remmy 870 or Mossberg 500. Maybe even Benelli Nova. That's a good pump.
The reality is that home defense and sporting are pretty mutually exclusive. You'll make sacrifices for home defense that will hurt your clay game. And a gun that's good for clays is generally longer, doesn't have rifle sights, and probably won't carry that many shells.
They really DON'T cross over very much. The good news is that a standard "home defense" shotgun is pretty cheap. So buy that, practice operating it at 0Dark30, and then buy another shotgun to play games with.
More and more, though, I'm finding a shotgun ill-suited for the purposes of Home Defense and have been considering some kind of pistol caliber carbine.
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