rudukai13
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Long background short: My dad will have some money to buy a shotgun soon and would like to replace his Beretta A400 Xcel for clays and his Mossberg 500 for home defense (both previously sold). While he’s open to reconsidering, he’s still very much stuck in the old “X is for defense and Y is for sport/entertainment” mentality that, known to anyone who’s followed my build threads, makes me recoil in disgust. Until my brother and I were of age and started purchasing our own semi-auto pistols and ARs he was of the opinion that his revolvers and hunting rifle were “just fine”, so while he’s shown willingness to change and modernize with the times there’s quite a bit of inertia to overcome.
The problem is shotguns aren’t really my thing in any context. I want to be providing him the best counsel possible based on the current best practices and methods, even if that means my initial inclinations are completely wrong.
So here are the questions:
1. Am I right to think he should be looking for one do-all shotgun that can be used for both clays and home defense? He doesn’t compete, so his choice of shotgun isn’t going to lose him any points at a match. My argument for using one gun for both is commonality in muscle memory and training familiarity
2. If so, which one? The 1301 comes to mind along with other 3 Gun-oriented examples
Thank you in advance, all help is greatly appreciated!
I’ll probably tackle convincing him to put a RDS on it later...
The problem is shotguns aren’t really my thing in any context. I want to be providing him the best counsel possible based on the current best practices and methods, even if that means my initial inclinations are completely wrong.
So here are the questions:
1. Am I right to think he should be looking for one do-all shotgun that can be used for both clays and home defense? He doesn’t compete, so his choice of shotgun isn’t going to lose him any points at a match. My argument for using one gun for both is commonality in muscle memory and training familiarity
2. If so, which one? The 1301 comes to mind along with other 3 Gun-oriented examples
Thank you in advance, all help is greatly appreciated!
I’ll probably tackle convincing him to put a RDS on it later...