Recommend a good pump action shotgun

Young Blood

I'm looking to buy a good pump shotgun. Can anyone recommend a dealership? I'm in the wesht.

cookimonster

Try Duffys in Galway

Grizzly 45

Mossberg/Maverick, Remington...Thats all you need to look for in brands.:D

rustynutz

I have the Remington 870 and cant fault it, simple and reliable

aaakev

rustynutz wrote: »

I have the Remington 870 and cant fault it, simple and reliable

And iv a mossberg 500A, absolute work horse. My mate has an 870, very similar guns both as reliable as the other. You wont go wrong with either

hexosan

I've a mossberg maverick 88 and it's bombproof

Nekarsulm

I've a Mossberg 500 for 15 years and it's been faultless. Had an older Mossberg "New Haven" pump before that. Depends on your preferences really, the Mossberg has a top safety like a double barrel, whicj I like, whilst others have a cross bolt type safety.

Never handled a Remington, but people say they're silky smooth. Had a go with a Winchester ranger and didn't really like it, seemed a bit unbalanced in my hands, and passed over an Ithaca pump that I'm sorry didn't buy, if only for curiosity value.

wirehairmax

This one works well:
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1058459114175458&id=136052503082795

Bongalongherb

Yeah, two big Bazookas but no pump-action shotgun in that clip ?.

wirehairmax

Feck it wrong clip pasted. Never mind couldn't be bothered good night back and looking for the right one.

Young Blood

I spoke to a gun dealer today about getting started. He told me the pump action shotguns he sells only hold a max of 3 slugs. I was under the impression they held more? The Remington 870 says it holds 5. Don't think I would bother if it only held 3. I don't think that one slug would make a hell of a lot of difference.

Grizzly 45

Well you can get a restricted shotgun, that holds more than five.IF you can convince your cheif super to issue the liscense and have an extremely good reason as to why you need more than three shots. There are ome lads who shoot the illegal sport of IPSC in sthn Ireland in northern Ireland who have them for their sport.,but otherwise its a hard sell down here. BTW when you refer to "slugs" around here that s referring about a restricted type of shotgun ammo, we generally call what goes into a shotgun "cartridges" to reduce confusion and gaffes.:)

Nekarsulm

All Mossberg hold five, to my knowledge. They usually have a piece of dowel rod ( sometimes called a "plug") inserted into the magazine tube to limit the gun to only hold three cartridges. This rod is placed inside the coil spring in the magazine tube and if you told the gun pointing straight upwards, then point it straight downwards you will hear the piece of rod moving within the spring. (Unloaded gun.)

cookimonster

I had a Winchester pump that was unplugged and for many years left it so, but as I got more and more into shotguning I plugged the tube myself. My semi will take five but it to is kept plugged in accordance to my license and the wild life act, besides that most semi's and pumps are heavy enough to lug around the country side without weighing them down with more cartridges.

skipking

got a new browning semi-auto on monday 3 shot and will stay that way cant see why you want more than 3 shots
anyway.

Sparks

[Mod Note]
Folks, a few points to note please.
Yes, it is physically possible in some cases to remove the plug on an unrestricted shotgun. It's also physically possible to drive over a pedestrian in your car. In both cases, it's completely illegal, and given that we've just spent quite a considerable amount of effort getting irked at the AGS for suggesting they bring in laws to ban firearms on the grounds that we might do something illegal with them, a lot of us would rather not listen to some back-of-the-pub nattering about how it's normal to do illegal things with legally held firearms. So knock it off, it's just as offensive coming from shooters as it is from the Garda Ballistics section.

Secondly, leave the RKBA stuff for somewhere else. Preferably somewhere that it's not also highly illegal.

Several posts above deleted to tidy up this mess.
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BrownTrout

OP judging from your post in the legal discussion, I'm just going to point out to you that you cannot licence any firearm for the purpose that you seem to want it for.

If you really are looking to get into hunting, I've never heard of any bird requiring 5 shots to go down and with a pump action anyway they'll be out of range after two shots.

It's really not that much of a burden to slide a shell into the bottom of a 3 shot pump or autoloader if that's what you've your heart set on.

Cass

I'm closing this thread because the OP has some seriously scary notions of what it means to own a gun, illegal reason for wanting one, and frankly personifies the "not everyone should have a gun" statement.

Closed.