[varmintman]

If any of you folks are going to buy a shotgun, I'd suggest you forget the games and buy a real one with at least 3" chamber(s) and the absolute top all around shotgun I know of is going to be the Beretta Xtrema-2 which can be had on gunbroker for around 1100 (last time I looked at least) and can basically do everything.

The Xtrema-2 is Beretta's semiauto hunting gun with a 3.5" chamber and a heavy spring and bleed-off valve meaning it can shoot skeets one day and geese or deer the next with just a chamge of ammo, said to be self cleaning which is only a tiny bit of a lie, you have to clean the barrel and I normally clean the piston chamber and piston but that isn't difficult.

A 3" magnum buckshot shell will absolutely annihilate any sort of a hoodlum or burglar who ever gets shot with it and available options include large-capacity feed tubes which are normally used by trick shooters but would in fact convert the thing to a home defense weapon.

[yarddog]

I sure like Beretta shotguns, in fact I used a Beretta (maybe model 330 just can’t recall for sure) when I was teaching skeet at Southern Miss.

The school supplied 870 pumps for those who did not have their own gun.

BTW, everyone thinks pumps are more reliable but that is not true. They might be mechanically more reliable but I have seen too many students short shuck a pump that it is not the most reliable in actual use.

My 1200 Defender has a 3 inch chamber but I think having an extra shell in the mag is more important in a home defense gun than the slight extra power of a 3 inch.

Also different brands of shells vary quite a bit in length either in 2 3/4 and 3 inch.

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