outdoorsmen

my girlfriend thinks she wants to go deer hunting with me this year. I told her that if she wanted to go that she needed a gun. she said "wtih all the guns you have there's not one i can use..." heck no, i see a way to added another to the collection. so here's what i'm thinking, i need a 20ga. i want to make it double as a field gun too. so i want 2 barrels a 28" and a fully rifled scope mount deer barrel. i also want to get a full size and youth stock. (so it can fit both of us). i prefer syn stock or camo and automatic.

where does that leave me? i think i know my only option but id like to hear other ideas.

gmil6184

I would go with the youth 870, i am pretty sure they sell a slug/bird combo that would be about perfect.

johnnybravoo77

The 870 is perfect. Buy the slug gun combo, then purchase a youth stock with the good recoil pad.

Paul L Mohr

Browning BPS would be my pick. And if you want to go cheap get a H&R ultra with an extra barrel you can swap out.

The hardest part about your situation is the stock. I think it would be easier to just get a youth model and either shoot it that way, or put a slip on recoil pad on it it to lengthen it a bit if you want it longer. Changing the stock on a pump or an H&R is a bit of pain in my opinion.

Paul

bigtim6656

500 mossberg get a rifled barrel

Hunting the North

The870 full size combo that comes with the 28" smooth bore barrel and the 23" rifled barrel with cantilever scope mount is the ticket.Get a youth stock for you girlfriend. I also suggest mounting a Nikon Prostaff 2-7x 32mm shotgun scope on the rifled barrel. I have the same set up but in 12ga. I put a youth stock on the full size 870 this year so my son could use it for trap shooting. I do suggest getting the 20ga. if your girlfriend is going to shoot slugs.

RugerMike

outdoorsman

I sent you an e-mail [email protected]

Dominick

H&R 20ga. for $225 is an absolute tack driver at 100yrds, 1" groups with lightfields or the faster moving Barnes expanders. With the money left over, just buy a dedicated 28" field gun and avoid the hassle

bigtim6656

heck for 209 or 219 you can go to walmart buy the mossber 500 with the rifled barrel then buy another smooth bore for 200

Dominick

Thats true, but the Mossberg will never be as accurate as the 20ga H&R, I've owned a Moss.for many years. I still recommend the H&R and with the $200 or so left over, you can buy a Walmart 28" field gun.

IMO, the only gun to out shoot the H&R is a custom like the $2K 20ga Tarhunt or possibly the Savage 210 bolt but the Savage is known to have ejection issues with shells hitting the scopebut there are solutions tothis problem.