Jeez. Poor guy asks a simple question: what can I get as a first side-by-side, 20 or 16 gauge, have about $500 bucks to spend. It takes seven pages and the usual pissing matches by the usual suspects to say what could have been said in one page:

1) Stevens 311 or maybe a Fox Model B
2) Nitro Special
3) Ithaca Long Range
4) Maybe a Fulton or one of the derivitives thereof
5) A few sundry low-end Spanish guns, etc.

Or, you can wait around and hope to get something that's perceived to be better for the same money, or perhaps a bit more. Meanwhile, the guys shooting the above guns will have had a hell of a lot of fun, and killed a lot of birds.






Last edited by Fin2Feather; 07/27/09 08:25 PM.
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