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Bitter Clinger wrote:

Dave2 wrote:

karder wrote:My only gripe is that in my opinion, the AK platform is not ideally suited for a scattergun. From a pure tactical standpoint, I find it too heavy and slow pointing.

That may be true, but it takes me 5 minutes to reload my Remington 1100 because if I slip up and don't fully insert the cartridge past that little catchy thing, the magazine spring pushes it into a funny place and I have to disassemble the gun to unjam it. Maybe on other SA or pump-action shotguns, that's not a problem, but it's really soured me on non-box-magazine-fed guns for pretty much anything other than fun at the range.

Anyway, the point is that whatever the tactical shortcomings of AK-based shotguns may be (and I'm not disputing them), I don't really care that much because, AFAIK, they're the only viable easy-to-reload (for me) shotguns.

If only they didn't cost so much, I'd get one.

For sure ammunition management is the key to running a shotgun, but I own 3 1100's, a tactical, a trap gun, and a SBS, and have NEVER experienced the issue you reported after many thousands of rounds. For me the 1100 platform is a winner, and outperforms manual actions.

karder wrote:My only gripe is that in my opinion, the AK platform is not ideally suited for a scattergun. From a pure tactical standpoint, I find it too heavy and slow pointing.