So I got my 40th coming up next month and to my surprise my old man sent me a new home defense/wild pig hunting shotgun in the mail today complete with barrel shroud and synthetic stock!!!

Pics coming soon!!!

If you come to my house, you sure as hell better knock!

>murdering the postman?
maybe, but this thing definitely screams Wild Hog Killer in 3" Magnum loads...8, 3" Magnums, or 9 standard rounds to be more precise!  And a few more slide into the butt for fast access. Me and boys will be grilling on the beach in a few weeks time, mark my words...

>It is one hell of a hooooooooomungus gun
That's only because I haven't had time to find a pistol grip for it yet:)

ahahahah http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOPuEuJx1MY

Guard dogs have to be fed, walked groomed, trained. These you just oil.

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if they are used for sport only then i can see the fun but the trouble is you put one in the wrong hands and some innocent person is sadly going to be blown away and quite often does

I had a lot of fun with a powerful air rife with telescopic sights and a 410 poachers gun in the late 80's where it broke down into 3 parts to hide in your long over coat so the game keeper could not find it but when we had a gun amnesty a few years later after the Hungerford and Dunblane shootings I got rid of it as now you get 5 years just for possession in the UK

Mossberg 590 video - a handy tool to cut a cabbage into small pieces at close range

I've always wanted an under/over.  Not as impressive looking as the side by side, but more accurate.

We had one for the mormons in college.  It was a broken old thing that didn't do anything but have that nice CLICK CLICK sound when you cocked it.  We only had to use it once.

Shooting (any gun) is fun... hunting is definitely not for everyone.  But shooting targets, skeet, bottles, is really a kick, imo.

This one, honestly, is really for home defense and killing people... even if they are standing on the other side of a wall:)  I only have my 9mm down here tucked under the mattress, but I never felt like it was 'enough'.  Granted, I grew up with a selection of guns and ammo to choose from so just having one is never enough for all occasions.

A few years back, right before I came, this place got hit with a hurricane, and after that left the city without power for a few weeks, looters were stealing the bricks out of people's driveways and breaking in their houses at gun and knife point.  My neighbor told me he only had a spear gun (which actually is pretty intimidating, imo) that he used to persuade a guy from climbing through his window ...but a spear gun is nothing compared to this thing.

Plus, you know me... I like my meat clean, and I'm 2 steaks away from finishing that deer I shot back in December (see http://th3core.com/talk/white-courtesy-telephone/rc/) ...and these things are running wild down here, and causing all sorts of environmental destruction in the Everglades. So it's a rare occasion to step up (with no license needed) and and help balance the ecosystem with 3" magnums, and get 6 dozen pulled pork sandwiches out of the deal in the process that would probably even entice poor old Rumbus swim down here, with a crate of BBQ sauce leased to his ankle like a surfboard:)

So for me, this is GREAT present. Fun, safe, tasty.

is it really that bad where you live that you need a pump action shotgun for defense ?

you need to move to the the UK dogboy where its safe to lie in bed all night and the biggest thing that happens where i live is the milkman may clatter a crate of milk on the back of his float at 5am

well, right where I live, it's beautiful... in fact, I live behind a massive Ferrari dealership, on a canal, right in the middle of Gummy Bear Village...



But that's also makes it a big fat target for looters apparently, when the security alarms go down and the streets are blocked by downed trees.  This whole South Florida scene is like that.... segregated and crazy.

...but honestly, I just got my bloodlust on in a big way, and all I can think of Wild Boar hunting as soon as I can find a farmer that is looking for an assassin

heheheeh boys, if it were up to you Brits, and we didn't have guns, we'd be talking this over a cup of tea;)

ditto to the pig, no wonder you need a pump action with that muther running towards you

ditto to the tea, whats wrong with sitting down and talking about it instead of running round like rambo

Quote from: JasonD on April 25, 2011, 06:07:30 PM
I wish i knew what that all meant. I can def see the enjoyment value in shooting. Maybe when i make it over to the US in Nov for Brett's show I'll see if i can shoot some guns n things

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...but at it's heart, is the action mechanism that they were bragging about in the product description.  It's a notoriously reliable gun.

...as far as the pig goes, that is definitely about as big as they get, and they do charge... as in, they charge EVERY time, not just when they are cornered.  They do not like people and they are one of the most dangerous animals you can hunt down here, honestly, for that very reason.

But I want to just get some little ones... like the size of a dog.  Something that we can throw on one of those grills they have at the beach.  Little ones will taste much better than some old massive boar. But whatever comes my way.  I don't think we will use dogs to track them down and immobilize them (because I don't know anyone with a Pitbull that isn't just for show, and has experience tangling with them) so I think it's just going to be me going Rambo on their their a##:)