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budget 20 bore auto advice

#1 Post by Dellboy »

As above need a cheap 20 bore auto for clays needs to be light minimal recoil and cheap oh and work with light loads . Is this too much to ask ?
Hatsan ATA or Armsan seem to be the choices anyone any ideas on reliability and spares back up ?

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I had a Hatsan Escort 20bore. Outstanding little shotgun! Bloody thing gobbled up everything I put through it! Spares and service from Edgar Bros was not very good at all....

I lost a tiny spring from the carrier release when I converted it to s1. Chuck on here had to get me one from Turkey!!!

I'd put another in my cabinet without question.
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Get an inertia gun Dell instead of a gas gun and change the spring for p**f loads :good:
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Gazza wrote:Get an inertia gun Dell instead of a gas gun and change the spring for p**f loads :good:

who does a budget one though ?
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Stoeger? 500 quid. Not sure if they do a 20 bore though.
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Gazza wrote:Stoeger? 500 quid. Not sure if they do a 20 bore though.

cant find a 20 and benelli is ££££ for them
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I ran a Benelli M2 for years after a Remy 1100. Simpler, cleaner but just a bitch to use! Then bought a JM Pro to go back to gas. Not as perfect as I hoped. Got a Beretta 1301. Now that’s how a gas gun should be!!

Franchi would be a cheaper option for an inertia gun, but still North of 500 quid.
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Sim G wrote:I ran a Benelli M2 for years after a Remy 1100. Simpler, cleaner but just a bitch to use! Then bought a JM Pro to go back to gas. Not as perfect as I hoped. Got a Beretta 1301. Now that’s how a gas gun should be!!

Franchi would be a cheaper option for an inertia gun, but still North of 500 quid.


yep if it was for me it wouldnt be a problem but they need a cheaper option sounds like one of the three i mentioned but which one ...

on another track the 1301 ok and is that the original one ?
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#9 Post by Sim G »

I would go with a Hatsan.

Yep, it’s the first 1301 Comp.
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#10 Post by DaveB »

Not too many years ago I bought a Remington 11-87 for 450 quid in Canada> I checked and good condition second-hand examples sell in the UK for 500 pounds. Great gun though.

We have quite gone off the Turkish shotguns - there's one sitting in our safe which used to be my wife's, but now we never use it. I haven't seen it in so long I cannot even recall the make or model (Ege-Silah it may have been). We had it repaired after the connection between the piston and the action bars shattered, and then retired it in favour of something more reliable for her - Franchi Youth model. Neither my Remington nor her Franchi have ever had any trouble whatsoever. Buy once, cry once.
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