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Button Buck
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| since i had a bad taste of gout im unable to use my pump anymore so ive gone to a semi auto out of necessity hank
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Button Buck
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I definetaly prefer auto for waterfowl/ upland game. I use a pump for deer.
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Woodsman
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| Love my 3 1/2" auto 12 gauge. Started with a single shot .410 when I was young and bought an 870 12 in the late 70's for duck hunting. But it's hard to beat the auto 12 for all around use.
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Button Buck
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As I told a guy that worked in a gun shop a couple of months ago, so I will tell you.
I started out with a Mossberg 500 20 gauge pump, which I bought with my own money when I was 15, from working in a local park one summer. At the time, I was making about $2.25 a hour and the gun cost $100
It only had a single rod on the pump and it jammed more then anything else. I hunted with it until I was about 21. I made friends with a guy that owned a gas station and sold guns in the back.
He had a Remington Sportsman 48 - 16 gauge semi automatic shotgun.
It was a good shotgun, but it cost twice as much for shells as did the 20 gauge and it only had a modified barrel - which was not very good for Turkeys or pheasants.
I sold that gun when I bought my first Remington Model 1100 semi - 12 gauge.
The bluing was worn and the stock was a little beat up, but it was a 12 gauge and it was a semi.
From that point on, everything got 3 shots.
I sold that gun when I bought one of the first Remington Super Mag's that came out back in 1998. 12 gauge - 3 1/2 inch with screw in choke tubes. That gun has shot a lot of turkeys and pheasants and grouse.
About that same time, I came into some money and I bought a used Browning Gold Hunter 3 1/2 inch semi auto 12 gauge shotgun. The Browning has shot a bunch of turkeys and a bunch of pheasants and a bunch of grouse.
The Remington broke when it was fairly new. I took it apart to clean it and something inside of it was not made right from the factory. The action was very gritty and the gun stopped feeding shells. The gunsmith I took it to repaired it for about $75 and adjusted everything until it works as good as new. I have only took it apart one time since then. As much - too scared that something will not work again as I am that it doesn't need cleaned - because I don't abuse my guns and tearing them apart to clean them - probably wears them out as fast as anything else.
The Browning broke one day on a pheasant hunt, in the middle of a food plot and I took it apart in the middle of a corn field. Some of the aluminum came out of the action. I took it to a gun shop and the gunsmith told me that it was a common problem and to just keep hunting with it.
I could send it back to Browning on my own dime, but if there isn't anything wrong with it, I can't see what it would accomplish. Truthfully - I don't trust it anymore for anything more than the first shot.
So I would have to say that the best gun I own is my pump action shotguns and not my semi automatic's.
I have a Browning 10 gauge pump shotgun that loads and ejects from the bottom. It has a short barrel and screw in choke tubes. I have never shot it. It is in mint condition, and it just sits in the gun cabinet. Some day I will take it out and shoot a couple of geese with it, or maybe a spring gobbler.
For me a gun is like a tool in your tool box, you buy a tool with the hopes that you will need it someday and when you do need it - it will be there. I have a Browning Pump rifle .300 Winchester Magnum - for the same reason. Some day I hope to go hunting Elk and when I do - I already have the gun to do it with.
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