20 guage auto?

Mosby said:
I have a made in Japan, A5 20 gauge with a 20 inch barrel that I bought it in 1994 or 1995 for quail, rabbit and grouse hunting....at least that was my reasoning. It is a sweet little gun. Real wood and steel. Has a hump right where it's supposed too. I don't take it out hunting near enough but I smile every time I pick it up. I looked at some new shotguns yesterday at Scheels. I know they are lighter but they sure are fugly.
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I have a 1965 Belgium A5 20. Nice gun but haven't shot it in years.
 
I started shooting a Benelli Montefeltro in ‘93; I took my Dad’s 1100 2 3/4” 12 gauge home last year when we moved him…very heavy compared to my Benelli 12 gauge. I bought an Ultralight 12 gauge about 9 years ago, it’s my go-to gun…incredibly light, and it must fit me really well, birds drop. Both my Benelli’s have been extremely reliable, I’m a fan of the inertia operation.
 
Mosby said:
I have a made in Japan, A5 20 gauge with a 20 inch barrel that I bought it in 1994 or 1995 for quail, rabbit and grouse hunting....at least that was my reasoning. It is a sweet little gun. Real wood and steel. Has a hump right where it's supposed too. I don't take it out hunting near enough but I smile every time I pick it up. I looked at some new shotguns yesterday at Scheels. I know they are lighter but they sure are fugly.
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The maid in Japan Browning guns are not nearly as good as the ones made in Belgium.
 
benelli-banger said:
I started shooting a Benelli Montefeltro in ‘93; I took my Dad’s 1100 2 3/4” 12 gauge home last year when we moved him…very heavy compared to my Benelli 12 gauge. I bought an Ultralight 12 gauge about 9 years ago, it’s my go-to gun…incredibly light, and it must fit me really well, birds drop. Both my Benelli’s have been extremely reliable, I’m a fan of the inertia operation.
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That’s true standard benellis are right in the sweet spot weightwise
 
Goosemaster said:
The maid in Japan Browning guns are not nearly as good as the ones made in Belgium.
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I agree there’s something special about the ones made in Belgium, but “not nearly” is a little bit of a stretch. The barrels are typically made of a different steel and are heavier. The machining on the screws is a little different. But they are still great guns. One thing I like about the earlier Belgium made guns is the rust bluing. My son has a 1950’s Light Twelve and I have a 1969 Light Twelve. Mine is hot blued and his is rust blued. That greyish blue you get on those old guns is, in my opinion, the most beautiful bluing on a gun. His is like new. I can just sit and look that gun over for an hour.

I need to get better educated on breaking it down to clean it, but its about as pretty a gun as you can get.
 
Bob Peters said:
Yes. Some posts on here can be tongue in cheek, but I want zero to do with any porting on a shotgun. They technically create the same amount of noise, but instead of blowing it out of the business end they spread it all around. I'm a big advocate of ear protection, but even with ear pro in, I can discern a large increase when shooting next to a ported gun on the trap field. I wouldn't want to hunt with anybody who had a ported gun. Porting on a shotgun has zero effect, the pressures don't get high enough for it to make a difference. I also think having a shotgun barrel that looks like Swiss cheese is ugly as hell. The ports collect carbon, a pain to clean so I've been told. They sell a decent amount of them so some people like them, I just can't figure out why.
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The noise was my main concern, I don’t shoot heavy loads and don’t waterfowl, I’m really interested in people’s opinion on the noise factor!!
 
Being older, I too like the looks of nice wood and deep blue metal. When shooting clays or skeet, the wood rarely gets dinged up. However, when the weather is bad and/or there are lots of fences to cross in the field, the composite stocked guns make sense. One of my Citori's is at the wood fixer right now getting refinished. Even being careful, one hunt is all it took to get scratched and dinged up.
 
Bob Peters said:
You don't want to have anything to do with a ported shotgun or chokes. One of the biggest gimmicks out there. No benefit, a lot of drawbacks. I'd never buy one. If I won one, I'd sell it. Garbage.
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Bob you are right.. by total accident yesterday one guy in our group had 2 newer benelli’s, both 20 gauges. One had ported barrels the other didn’t, he threw some water bottles for me at the end of the day to try them out and I made up my mind on the first shot, that ported barrel was extremely loud. So loud in the left ear I didn’t shoot it again.. thanks for info!!
 
Quailnerd said:
Westks do you have opinion on ported barrels with benelli? You seam to have shot a lot of benelli products..
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LOUD! My son bought 12 gauge and 20 gauge Benelli Supersports this year. They look really cool. I hunt a lot and have never wore plugs in the field. I carried the 20 gauge and he carried the 12 gauge on opening weekend. Both of these guns made our ears ring on opening weekend. He's 20 and "invisible", and he even wore ear plugs after opening weekend. I pulled out a different gun. Problem solved for me.
 
Carguy2Banker said:
LOUD! My son bought 12 gauge and 20 gauge Benelli Supersports this year. They look really cool. I hunt a lot and have never wore plugs in the field. I carried the 20 gauge and he carried the 12 gauge on opening weekend. Both of these guns made our ears ring on opening weekend. He's 20 and "invisible", and he even wore ear plugs after opening weekend. I pulled out a different gun. Problem solved for me.
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Yup.. it was a supersport 20
 
I thought about the a400 too but it’s not a light gun. I’m sure it’s tough as hell but didn’t want to carry it all day, would kind of defeat the purpose of a new 20 gauge for me
 
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