Reeder Custom Guns - I almost made a hasty purchase on a shotgun

I decided that it should be a more thought out purchase for the expense and objective. I have a dozen shotguns that are general use and defensive but I need one for more formal use in business related events like skeet, clays, Trap, sponsored hunts etc. Not that I need to be prissy, I'll never impress anyone. But I want to make a satisfying performance and enjoy what I use. I'm leaning more toward a semi-competition gun with a sporting lean. I have decided on 12 bore as the wider shot column will always be superior with patterns over smaller chokes. With target loads and platforms I find recoil the same 12/20. The Mikrou and Citori are class leaders for reliability with Beretta close with lots of followers. The SKB are nice but parts and the network is a little less robust. A man with a $1k- $1.5k budget can get something really nice that will hold value. I'll wait and plan.

For this close shoot I'm going redneck. The boy going with me does not have any fancy irons so I'm likely using a Mossberg camo turkey gun or my rad custom Frankenstein M870 in a like configuration. I may swap to modified pattern screw chokes and a Tru-glow front sight on them.

I can hardly do worse than last year. I used a 1100 20 with full choke. It's Nov. 6th, day after the votes. LOL May be a state of Martial law.

These are working guns for sure.
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for an invite to the dance, load her up with a imp mod choke and 1 oz no 7 loads, a stick on cheek pad and possibly a spacer in the stock. While they're laughing about the pig in lipstick you brought, you can be taking their lunch money LOL

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The barrel is a cut off with Colonial chokes from Brownells. I need to upgrade the front plastic optic sight. The stocks are Mag-pul and I bought them at a 50% discount. I thought it was hunter orange and cool. Come to find out orange is Law Enforcement "Less Lethal". Whoops! Oh well. It's all adjustable with spacers and the cheek height as well. I'm all too well familiar with the 870. This chassis is a "Express Magnum". The plastic trigger guard is cheap but replaceable. Mossberg has them too. I modded the mag tube where it would work with an extended Choate 9 shot (5 extended) mag. Which I robbed to put on my 1100. It's probably better on the 870 as the 1100 is a 10-shot beast!

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model 600 in 12 gauge. I never had any problems with it and after many thousands of rounds the gun was still tight and had no problems. When we moved out here from Florida there was no skeet range at the time so I sold the SKB to a friend. He still uses it in Phoenix skeet shoots. I swear by the SKB shotguns and my next shotgun will be a 28 gauge in the model 600.

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Several Italian and Spanish brands do as well. It allows solid top bolt locking of the action but breaks open farther to better access that bottom barrel on an O/U.

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being bulky. I had a Winchester 101 also but it weighed about twice what the SKB did. I didn't keep it long.

I almost made a hasty purchase on a shotgun

That orange lovely ought to be a shoe-in

LOL the thing shoots straight!

For years shooting skeet I used an SKB

They use the Greener type action I really like

That's a fact, super strong too without

My model 600 was like this one. except darker wood.

I’ve had two less embellished 500’s