I meant to tell you, Ed, (not mention,, but TELL)
that You seem to have no concept of risk within your ramblings about investment in shotguns.

So I have no idea why this thread was ever started.
Whether Keith feels compelled to bash on you or not.
There does seem to be a wisp of masochism in your more peculiar threads.

Simplify your life.
Take 100K$, buy whatever shotguns you care to fiddle with, and come back in a year. Report the time spent, the dollars in and out, and whatever you have left.

You'll learn all you need to know, and so will we.

Somehow I doubt you'll end up ahead.

Out there doing it best I can.