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From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Re: Which (shot)gun to purchase
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Date: Fri, 19-Sep-86 16:28:55 EDT
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Article: 9:27

In the shotgun department, I would suggest the Remington 1100
Sportsman.  It has a birchwood stock instead of a walnut stock.
Best Company, the catalog store, is selling them for about 
$260.  It's not that the 1100 is the best shotgun, but it
is the most popular auto.  Parts and service are easy to
come by.  For home protection, I'd get the plain, 20" barrel
and a Choate magazine extension.  For sport, I'd get
an appropriate vented barrel.  A nice thing about
gas-action autoloading shotguns is the reduced recoil.
This will be appreciated by your wife.

Regarding buying used guns, it's like buying a used car.
If you know what you are doing and know how to fix
a particular model, then you can do well.  If you don't
know what to look for in the way of defective or
incorrect parts, you might get into trouble.

Also, in case you haven't noticed, THE time to 
buy guns is during the last week in August and the first week
in September.  Woolworth's (YES, WOOLWORTH'S) sells
its guns at almost dealer cost and K-Mart has its
big sales at this time.  You've just missed the best sales of the
year.  The next best time is after hunting season.  This
will depend on your locale.  Usually guns sales are VERY slow
in January.  That might be a good time to shop around.

Jon Kaplowitz
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