The Down Range Forum
Member Section => Shotguns => Topic started by: MAUSERMAN on March 29, 2022, 01:46:36 AM
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I can’t believe the smoking deal I got on a benelli m4. I’ve been wanting to get my hands one for about 12 years now. Every time I’m close there’s a new milsurp I have to snatch up. Today was just a happenstance. A family friend needed money to move and asked if I was interested. It maybe has about 500 rounds threw it and is in perfect shape. For $1100 I couldn’t say no. He even threw in a choke set and 5 boxes of shells. I’m in ppt jail until April third. I can’t wait to pull the trigger on it.
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You lucky dog. I wanted a Benelli M4 for a long time, but now I want a Beretta 1301 Tactical instead. It's gas operated so it's softer shooting, and the BLINK gas operating system is 36% faster cycling than its competition. I would never have to worry about outshooting it, because its faster than I am. I found out something about tactical shotguns earlier this year. When you start hanging lights, lasers, bayonets, and what have you, toward the muzzle, you can throw off the weight and balance of an inertia-driven shotgun enough to cause them to malfunction. With a gas-operated shotgun you can attach a blender to make margaritas, right next to your tactical chainsaw and it won't effect the fuction. But if I got a deal on a Benelli M4 you know I wouldn't turn it dowm.
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All I’ve done to my M4 is get a blue force padded sling and a gg&g light mount. I bought a carlsons breacher choke I need to test out. It’s supposed to be an improved cylinder choke. I have to pattern it before I trust it.
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00 Buck? Number 1 Buck is nice if you can find it. I generally buy No. 4 for 12 Gauge and bought No. 3 for 20 gauge when I was shooting it. But I buy 00 Buck too. 00 or 000 would blow right through the walls of my house like cardboard if every pellet wasn't right on target. No. 4 doesn't have enough energy per pellet to be as much of a problem, but many people say it's also not very effective. From what I've read, No. 1 Buck is the minimum size for people who compromise and split the difference between 00 Buck and No. 4 Buck. Other people say 00 Buck is the minimum size you should use. And some people say a shotgun is only good to fight your way to a rifle with a much larger magazine capacity. Or to arm yourself with when you barricade at a defensive position. I don't know what to think.
I can't put any kind of choke on my Remington Sportsman 12 Auto. I have a cylinder bore 18 1/2 inch vent rib barrel. I have a rifle front sight blade installed on top of the rib, right behind the bead, which I unscrewed and replaced with a plug. I have a Williams Firesight setting here I need to swap out for the brass beaded blade. I already replaced the Williams WGRS peep sight with one of their Firesight ghost rings. The fiber optic rod is bent around in a U shape to make a dot to the left and right of the aperture. I just downloaded pics of it on their site. It slides up and down the dovetail of the old sight base for elevation adjustments, and you can see the screw for windage adjustments in the pics. It's only $11.95 and fits on any of their WGRS, Williams Guide Receiver Sights or WGOS, Williams Guide Open Sights. I guess I need to buy a shoulder pad if I'm ever going to zero in my gun with slugs. I have a bunch of Brenneke slugs lying around collecting dust.
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I’ve got 4 shotguns in my collection. My mossberg 500 was my first. I shot the hell out of it. Learned how to run a pump very quickly with it. My maverick 88 was an impulse buy during Black Friday. It’s smoother than my 500 and patterns Winchester military 00 buck amazingly. Now my Winchester sxp is my slug gun of choice. It patterns well but shoots slugs like a laser out to about 100 yards.
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I'm back to 2 shotguns again, and one's an old Mossberg bolt-action 20 gauge with external choke tubes. It was my mom's gun when she hunted, which was so long ago, it was probably before I was born. My dad said one time she shot at a bird with it and missed. He heard her empty the gun, and she fired all 3 shots so fast it sounded like she had a semi-auto. I don't remember ever seeing my mom shoot any kind of gun, so it really sounded strange hearing about it. I bought a bunch of slugs and some buckshot for it. I planned on mounting a scope on it and using it as a slug gun with the the IC choke, and possibly getting the barrel modified to use a rifled choke tube. Then I found out no one makes a scope mount for it, and it's been setting here waiting for a custom mount to be installed ever since.
My dad had a 20 gauge Remington Sportsman 58, which was a near twin of his Remington Woodsmaster Model 740 .30-06. The Model 58 was Remington's first gas operated shotgun, and the direct ancestor of the Model 1100. The gas system and the action spring was was built into the front end of the magazine tube. So that limited the capacity of the magazine tube to two shells. Gas was tapped from a hole in the barrel into a large chamber. A piston in the chamber drove an action bar rearward which, in turn, operated the bolt to cycle the action. They were making the long-recoil operated Model 11-48 semi-automatic shotgun, based on the Model 11 at the same time, but the Model 58 was more expensive to make than the Model 11-48, and was less reliable and heavier. Remington chose to replace the Model 58 with a model that combined its best features with those of the Model 11-48. The resulting Model 1100 immediately replaced the Model 58 and proved so successful that it soon also replaced the Model 11-48.