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BillyGoat13

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I have read you guys posts for many months now and finally decided to ask a few questions of my own. I am recently married and hopefully will be starting a family real soon and am looking to add another shotgun to my collection that I can pass on to my kids. Here is what I am looking for. I mainly hunt dove and deer and prefer auto's. I want a gun that can be "hunted with" without worrying about it performing at the end of a long day in the mud and muck and also still be shucking shells after 30 years like the Rem. 1100 that my father gave me. Any suggestions? I am more concerend with getting a shotgun that performs than having a safe queen with intricate designs and details. Thanks in advance for all your help
 
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Maybe you'll just want to stick with Remington, an 11-87. If you can spend a little more, a Benelli M1 could be to your liking. With different barrels and such you got birds, deer, and home invaders covered all in one familiar shotgun (same of course with the 11-87). Both great choices. Synthetic stocks require no care next to wood.
Another choice I guess is a saiga. Would look kind of odd shooting doves, even the sporting model, but that is a tough auto shotgun you cannot stop from running, it's not good looking, untraditional, but it is reliable, and also cheap. Almost all pumps you can count on also, if you want to comprimise.
 
Welcome BillyGoat13

I believe you should stick with what you know, the Remington. The other choices are Beretta 391 series, or Winchester SX2. You may try Benellis, but if you are used to a Rem 1100, the recoil may bother you being a recoil operated gun and not a gas gun.
 
Buy an O/U or SXS. They always work, never jam, never need parts, can shoot every shell made (with the correct chamber length) and will teach you to make your shots count.

And they are truly multi generational guns.
 
Advice on shotgun

Why not just keep the 1100? I have one that's over 35 y/o.
It still shoots like new. You can buy a slug barrel, a trap barrel(with or without rib) and or a barrell with choke tubes.
Mickey
 
Thansk for all the replies. I have heard from a few local gunstores about the Franchi I-12..... How would this gun rate in comparison to some of the ones you guys suggested? Is this a good gun that will be here for years to come or a sweet shooter that is eventually going to fall part in my hands?
 
I have never had any personal experience with that model, but my BIL has a Franchi 20 ga auto that has given him nothing but fits since he got it. It is a recoil operated gun, not a gas auto. I know of several other guys at my skeet club that have tried Franchis of one type or another and only one still shoots his that I know of. Not too good of a track record for the ones I have seen. I'm sure there are others out there that have no problems at all with their Franchis.
 
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