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WARNING!!! Other stuff. Thinking about a semi 12 gauge for general on the farm blasting. Prolly something with a synthetic stock because it might be thrown around in the truck and tractor. Thoughts?
Don't forget the buckshot. It is very effective on both 2 legged and 4 legged problems.:drinkingcoffee:
 
Don't forget the buckshot. It is very effective on both 2 legged and 4 legged problems.:drinkingcoffee:
I'd pick #4 buck. It'll put a hurting on the 2 legged variety at close range and is small enough to have a good pattern for yotes and foxes out 50-60 yards with the right choke. I believe there's 24 pellets in most 2.75" loads.
 
Don't forget the buckshot. It is very effective on both 2 legged and 4 legged problems.:drinkingcoffee:

I'd pick #4 buck. It'll put a hurting on the 2 legged variety at close range and is small enough to have a good pattern for yotes and foxes out 50-60 yards with the right choke. I believe there's 24 pellets in most 2.75" loads.
My preferred. I've found 1 pellet will drop a deer at 100 yards.:innocent:
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FS, I'm a big fan of the Remington 870. Cost less, lighter, and IMO, more reliable!

Plus, you can change barrels. I have 28" vent rib with polly choke and 24" Hastings rifled slug barrel w/ cantilever scope mount. 20" sighted barrels are also available.

Took the big doe with it this year, and I've owned it since 1970! The Hornady Rifled Slug rounds send a saboted 50 cal pointed bullet (300 grains) at 2,000 FPS! Very effective on deer!
 
FS, I'm a big fan of the Remington 870. Cost less, lighter, and IMO, more reliable!

Plus, you can change barrels. I have 28" vent rib with polly choke and 24" Hastings rifled slug barrel w/ cantilever scope mount. 20" sighted barrels are also available.

Took the big doe with it this year, and I've owned it since 1970! The Hornady Rifled Slug rounds send a saboted 50 cal pointed bullet (300 grains) at 2,000 FPS! Very effective on deer!
Classic, 👍
 
FS, I'm a big fan of the Remington 870. Cost less, lighter, and IMO, more reliable!

Plus, you can change barrels. I have 28" vent rib with polly choke and 24" Hastings rifled slug barrel w/ cantilever scope mount. 20" sighted barrels are also available.

Took the big doe with it this year, and I've owned it since 1970! The Hornady Rifled Slug rounds send a saboted 50 cal pointed bullet (300 grains) at 2,000 FPS! Very effective on deer!
I concur. The 870 is a great utility shotgun. More robust than the Mossberg 500 if you actually shoot it. From what I've seen they are also more reliable under less than ideal maintenance conditions than the inexpensive semis. I don't know if it's still true, but for many years the single most sold part that Gun Parts (Numrich) sold was ejectors for the Mossberg 500 along with the attaching screw. As I recall they also offered an oversized screw as the receiver hole was often mangled and had to be drilled and tapped to a larger size. I had one of those and the ejector was something that I had to check and tighten regularly or the gun didn't eject reliably.
 
I’m gonna be 43 this April, have had my 870 since I was 12. The only firearm I still own from my childhood, the one I wouldn’t part with.

I had a pump .22, 30-30 lever Model 94, a Howa 30-06

I now own, who knows how many rifles and shotguns, but there is one that I’ve had forever….

Even still carry it afield, it’s old reliable Remington 870
 

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