Bigred1995;730467 wrote:I don't know about guns, but what I do know is that it takes a good minute or two for me to actually read your post because my eyes are immediately drawn to your "avatar(?)". Then, while reading your post I'm am compelled to stop periodically to stare more at it! I'm certainly not a fast reader, but for a post so short I've never taken so long to read any other like it!


Thanks, by the way!

ttocs14;730484 wrote:Sorry, should have mentioned it in my OP but I would mostly be using it for deer hunting and trap shooting. A few of my friends have the 870 and they give it good reviews as well.

I've priced them all at local shops and I can pick up the 870 and 500 for about $320 and the Benelli for about $380

password;730535 wrote:I think the Remington 870 would be the one to go with for hunting and trap. The Mossberg is not not even close to the Remington when it comes to quality and dependability. I own a few Remington shotguns and never have a problem with them. The Mossberg may have changed over the years but they always felt like a cheap impostor compared to the Remington. Depending where you live, there may be a gun shop or indoor shooting range that has both of these guns and would let you test fire both and make a decision based on how well you like the way they handle. If you are looking for quality there is no better than Remington. The weight of the gun, Heavy or Light Trigger and Recoil are all things that you have to be comfortable with. The bottom line is that you have to get what you are going to be comfortable with and what feels good to you. Choosing a gun is like choosing a women, some guys like big heavy BBW type women and some like the petite light weight women, Neither guy is wrong, you have to choose which one feels good to you when holding it in your hands.

LJ;730545 wrote:Or you can get a Browning and make both the Mossberg and Remmy feel like cheap pieces of crap. (they aren't, but there is definitely a huge difference in build quality, having shot all 4 guns mentioned in this thread)

LJ;730545 wrote:Or you can get a Browning and make both the Mossberg and Remmy feel like cheap pieces of crap. (they aren't, but there is definitely a huge difference in build quality, having shot all 4 guns mentioned in this thread)

password;730616 wrote:I think this debate could go on for years if you want but the browning doesn't impress me. I think it is a personal preference and proof of that would be, My father who owned a gun shop for about 20 yrs would only deer hunt with a winchester pump shotgun because he said that is what he liked. He would sell a lot of Ithaca shotguns and guys would swear that they were the best guns made but that does not make it true. Every year some company comes out with a new model and people think it is the best gun made because they added some new features and raised the cost to consumers but it is really no better than the older model. For the average hunter that wants a gun that they can take right out of the box and use the same day, Remington would be a good choice. When people want to talk about buying the best shotguns made for trap or bird hunting than people better be ready to take out a second mortgage because you will spend up wards of $15,000.00 and in my opinion that doesn't make it any better than my $1600.00 trap gun.

mcburg93;730634 wrote:As far as brownings go I mustve had bad luck. Never owned one that didnt break. I bought an o/u 12ga browning from a friend and owned it for about two weeks and had to pay to get two new firing pins and two new springs put in. He bought it two years earlier so shouldnt of had them problems that soon. The other browning I owned had it about a year and had to do pretty much the samething to it. So I for one am against brownings due to my experiences.

LJ;730622 wrote:Feel would be a personal pref, but there is no denying the build quality of the Browning over the Remmy and Mossberg. As for not telling a difference between, I promise you that you can tell a difference between my Brownings and my Krieghoff. As for which one I am more comfortable with, of course the Browning Sporter Ultra that I have over 200k rounds through, but that doesn't mean there aren't build differences and so on.