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ratrodney

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Lookin for a low budget floor sweeper. Semi auto..12 gauge.
Want to get it with or customize it to a pistol grip"no buttstock" and mount a foreward grip on it. Short n tactical.
Lookin at Charles Daly....Linberta...Ect....
Any suggestions? Tnx, RR:D
 
A pistol grip "no buttstock" shotgun is a tv and movie prop that is the most useless thing on the Planet. You have zero control. Low end kit usually means no aftermarket stuff anyway.
 
Don't buy a cheap turkish gun. I know some people claim they are great, but i had one (cz 712) fire out of battery and destroy it.

save up and buy a quality gun. I knows thats hard to do, but its worth it. The cheapest semi auto gun I would buy is a fanchi or remington 11-87.
 
I believe he meant that the Linberta and Charles Daly are Turkish made. Buying a low price semi is a dumb move if you expect it to be reliable. A lot of folk get the Mossberg semi, but a lot have problems. I prefer the 870, but their pump seems to be pretty good.

Get a good used gun before a new POS and go with a forget a pistol grip.
 
You might ask around local gun clubs and check for sale sections of shotgun forums such as TFL. In particular check trapshooters.com. for a Remington 1100 or 11-87.
 
Used 1100 vs new 1100 = one helluva deal. They will fail on occasion. You can even find them pre-cut. I wouldn't cut one myself. It's a shortcut to a new front tooth. That would make the 1100 experience a bit more costly.
 
If you want a expensive semi auto, just spend a couple hundred bucks on some POS, spend another couple hundred bucks on crap, to make it look, cool. You will save money on ammo, because it breaks or jams before you can shoot much.:mad::mad:

Now on the other hand, if you want a inexpensive shotgun, try looking at the name brands like; Remington (at least 50,000 rds.), Benelli (my has around 65,000 rds.), Beretta (at least 65,000 rds.), Browning (a lot ), Winchesters (as many rds.), and even the Mossbergs (45,000 rds.). Of course you will burn a lot of ammo with these shotguns, but you won't be sending them back for warrant repair...:):cool:...Divide the cost of these guns by the number of shots, and suddenly they're cheaper than the marked down POS...:cool:
 
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Cheap and semi-auto don't go together. Good semi's just aren't cheap.
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Excellent advice there. Until last year I had never owned a semi-auto shotgun because I didn't want to waste $500 on a new cheaper gun and run the risk of getting a lemon. I saved up and at 37 years old I bought my first semi-auto, a Browning Maxus. Less than 30 days later I scraped up the money for an A-5. Regret waiting all those years to buy one but it was a lot easier to part with the money after the first one.

As for the pistol grip with no butt stock, why?
 
Personally I wouldn't get pistol grips BUT if you are dead set on that, at least get the bird's head style and not the straight-down AR style for the rear grip

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pistol grip "no buttstock" shotgun is a tv and movie prop that is the most useless thing on the Planet.
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+1.

Taking the stock off a shotgun makes hitting anything with it outside of contact distance much more difficult. It's point shooting without the pointing part ...... which is just shooting.
 
I think you're low on your round counts. Every one of those guns should go way over 100,000.
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Well, you might be right, next time I'm back there, I'll bring; the gun, the birds, and the thrower, and you bring the shells, and we run a little experiment.:):):)
 
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Seconds to all comments about pistol grips and hard to shoot and useless past near contact distance. And I put the funky vertical foregrips in that useless category as well. The "floor sweeping" shotgun is just another myth. All shotguns need to be aimed/pointed reasonably, , and those two accessories do not help with that at all.

Where space is at an absolute premium, the old Remington top folder stock seemed a good compromise. Folded, it stored well, unfolded, it shot OK. Still, Nearly useless when shot folded.
 
I'm well into the experiment of the Remingtons; way past 100,000. :) You pick one of the others and we'll recruit a third volunteer to do the other one.
 
If you must have POS, then definitely +1 on the bird's head grip. Add a laser or tightly focused light, because there's no easy way to acquire your target.
 
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