I just bought the older version of the A300 this week...I think it's fundamentally the same as this one, minus the oversized controls, extended mag, and ghost ring sights. I've enjoyed it so far...it's a nice shooting gun. Have about 125 target loads through it and haven't been able to get it to malfunction yet. I'm waiting on choke tubes to try some heavier stuff.
I've never shot a 1301 but I've heard they're excellent. I know the bolt is different, but I'm not sure what other differences are.
Posts: 9167 | Location: In the Cornfields | Registered: May 25, 2006
Seems like a lot of shotgun for the price. If I hadn't picked up a 1301 Tactical a few months ago, I'd probably be snapping one of these up really quickly.
Posts: 3534 | Location: SE Michigan | Registered: February 25, 2007
I'll have to pick one up so the son that doesn't get the LTT doesn't feel screwed.
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Posts: 2058 | Location: T-town in the 253 | Registered: January 16, 2013
This looks like the absolute best home defense shotgun you can buy under $1000. It has very nice features with the 7 shot tube, MLOK forend for light attach, forward and rear QD cups for sling attach, and can possibly even ghost load on the shell lifter …
I really like how they went to Federal and asked what the most popular defensive ammo was (flite control low recoil) and then tuned the gun to run perfectly with low recoil ammo. Smart move.
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Posts: 6705 | Location: Floriduh | Registered: October 16, 2004
With the interchangeable chokes I can't think of any shotgun task this wouldn't be very decent at. Other than looking pretty like the $30k+ O/Us the trap and skeet snobs buy.
Guessing that mini shells are going to be a bridge too far. These guns seem to have a high initial demand because any I find available online are way north of $1k...so far. The post above for Gunsunlimited is out of stock (as of last night) btw.
Originally posted by apprentice: Guessing that mini shells are going to be a bridge too far. These guns seem to have a high initial demand because any I find available online are way north of $1k...so far. The post above for Gunsunlimited is out of stock (as of last night) btw.
Black are in stock at Bereli for $949.99 shipped and coupon code BERELIREVIEW5 should still work for an extra 5% off at checkout.