I've been thinking about getting a shorter barrel and a Choate Mag Extension for my plain Jane 870 Express so that I'll have a good home defense gun.
However, by the time I sink another $150 bucks into this stuff, I've spent about half of what the Remington Express Turkey gun would cost me. Check it out: http://www.REmington.com/firearms/shotguns/870extrky.htm Seems to me this gun would double nicely as a home defense weapon. 21 inch barrel and a tight choke would make for a maneuverable hard hitting HD weapon.
I'd thought about getting the 20 inch IC barrel from Cabela's, but I notice on the Remington site that this barrel is described as a "fixed-choke" barrel. So, without the interchangeable choke tube, this gun wouldn't work so well as a turkey gun. However, when you go the other way around, the turkey barrel does have choke tubes, and you could put in an IC choke for deer hunting. Right???
I do plan to turkey hunt with a shotgun, and seems to me that the turkey gun offers it all. A good turkey hunting weapon, a good HD weapon, and with the right choke, a good deer shotgun. What do you all think?
However, by the time I sink another $150 bucks into this stuff, I've spent about half of what the Remington Express Turkey gun would cost me. Check it out: http://www.REmington.com/firearms/shotguns/870extrky.htm Seems to me this gun would double nicely as a home defense weapon. 21 inch barrel and a tight choke would make for a maneuverable hard hitting HD weapon.
I'd thought about getting the 20 inch IC barrel from Cabela's, but I notice on the Remington site that this barrel is described as a "fixed-choke" barrel. So, without the interchangeable choke tube, this gun wouldn't work so well as a turkey gun. However, when you go the other way around, the turkey barrel does have choke tubes, and you could put in an IC choke for deer hunting. Right???
I do plan to turkey hunt with a shotgun, and seems to me that the turkey gun offers it all. A good turkey hunting weapon, a good HD weapon, and with the right choke, a good deer shotgun. What do you all think?