Best 12 gauge shotgun for under $300??

What's the best shotgun for under $300?
Looking to buy one here soon, don't know much. Want a 12 gauge.
Help me decide TW!

 

Best cheap reliable shotgun for around $300 would probably be a Remington 870 in my books.

 

I'm not sure if it's under $300 but it's close.

You really can't go wrong with the Remington 870

 

Remington 870 or Winchester Super X, 25, or 1200

Used would be ideal if they have been card for.

Save for an extra month and buy smart.

 

Bought my Mossberg 500 at Dicks Sporting goods on sale for $250. Great gun for home defense. Can also find good home defense Shotguns at wal mart, or hell, any where.

 

The Mosberg 500 isn't a bad gun either if you can find one used. I would still take a 870 over one but hey, to each their own

 

870 there are lots of parts for and different ways you can go about building them if you want too. Mossberg has a smaller following for "tactical" parts and winchesters have very little. Depends what OP is going to use the gun for.

 

Swank,

If the intended use is home defense, then consider a double barrel 12 gauge. To be awoken in the middle of the night it is far easier to load a double barrel than a pump shotgun in darkness.

 

If someone breaks into your house, chances are once they hear that shotgun rack, they'll be out the door

 

Wait until Christmas. Buy a $375 shotgun for $320. Budget guns are always a sacrifice. Shotguns should be built well.

 

H&R pardner pump.
Chinese copy of the 870 that is good quality, all parts interchange between the H&R and the 870 except barrels.

 

To an extent I suppose. I have friends who bought the Big 5 Mossberg special and a Winchester Defender and they're both about as crappy as I could imagine.

I'd buy reasonable and buy once, prices will drop for Christmas. Get a 500 or an 870. Own it for life.

 

Thats what i got. I actually really like it.

 

95 taco, can you say the same for the Handi Rifles? I am really interested in them.

 

We have one in 20 gauge, I use it as a squirrel gun and when it's not in the woods it's in the safe with 5 rounds of buckshot ready to go.

Action is a little rough but I trust it.

Never fired or held a handi rifle, seen a few at the local pawn shop.
from what I've read they're decent for what they are.

 

Thanks. Would love something like that for woods bumming.

 

Thanks.

 

So you wouldn't want to have the guy run away when you could sneakily shoot him from a dark corner with a shotgun?

I am not saying someone who enters your home at night doesn't deserve to get shot but if they're not there to hurt me and only steal something from the unoccupied living room I would prefer they run away when they know there's an awake armed occupant than shoot someone without giving them a chance to prone out or fuck off. If I saw they had a gun I'd drop them without saying a word. Lots of variables, so I don't really disagree but a lot of times a shotgun rack would be worth giving away your location if it meant the 14 year old ran away.

Oh - and Rem 870 is what I'd recommend. Love mine.

 

870 for sure. Hard to beat when compared to similar guns within $100 of its price.