Which shotgun did I win in the lottery?

[Agnotology]

Eons ago, my buddy was so excited for Christmas. "I'm buying my wife a Dirt Devil." Whoa whoa whoa, I said. You can't buy her a Dirt Devil. "That's what she wanted." I told him we should go down to the Jewelers Bldg, see my guy and spend $35 (again, it was 30+ years ago) on a pair of earrings.

Nope. He was insistent he was a genius and ths was perfect.

FF to the week after Christmas. I'm over his house. I ask the wife how she liked Christmas. She didn't say a word. Just scowled and left the room. Friend confided sheepishly that he should have sprung for hte earrings. ROFL!!!!!

Reminds me of a guy who said when he got his wife pregnant, he "loaded the dishwasher".

that was when I was 15 or so, and he's on his third wife.

 

[Cur]

M3 Super 90... best of both worlds...

 

[Agnotology]

Sorry, I do not understand the question.

Cat, I can't stress is enough, leaf-guard gutters, regardless of brand or system, are all terrible. It will not reduce how much you have to put into maintaining gutters at all. It just makes it a greater hassle to finally clean them when you do.

I have a friend who does gutter cleanings. His deal is simple. First time you pay him to clean your gutters, it is $2 a foot per level. Every spring and fall he comes and does gutters, it's then only $1 per foot per level. Skip a spring or fall, and the price goes back up. He'll also fix any minor things while he is up there at no cost.

A standard pre-built house out here costs the home owners $80 the first time, and $40 to maintain them thereafter.

If you have leaf-guards, it's $5 a foot per level, because its a royal pain in the ass and people wait till the fine silt has packed up so much there is a problem.

 

[bostonelli]

User name conflict. User name does NOT check out.

Lol

I had a m4 when I made my username. f***er is heavy 1301 mod2 is king!

 

[CatSnoutSoup]

It is a done deal.

I bought an olive drab green 1301 Mod 2.
The ODG is cool looking enough, but I actually would have prefered black. However the only black model in stock was the LE version which does not accept chokes, and I wanted that option.

$1617 plus tax of $101

Next step will be an optic. I am now thinking of a Holosun HE509T, which I would mount on a saddle after removing the stock Beretta picatinny rail.

But that is just in the research stages.

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[paul73]

Next step will be an optic

try it as it is first with no optic, pattern it at 25yds and decide after that is you indeed want it or not.

 

[Agnotology]

Pinty.

 

[cams]

First, congrats! That’s awesome. I’m a day late reading this though, AU is having a sale on 1301 Tacs and could’ve saved you a few hundred.

 

[MickeyD’s]

euro optic has 5rd 1301 mod 2s for 1200$ right now

Beretta 1301 Tactical Mod 2 w/o M-LOK Forend 12ga 18.5" Bbl Synthetic Black Shotgun J131T518

Beretta 1301 Tactical 12ga 18.5" Bbl Synthetic Black Shotgun J131T518 For Sale

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[Lank]

Last Tuesday I stopped on the way to work to gas up my truck, and I bought a $10 scratch ticket that proved to be a $20 winner.

On the way home Tuesday evening I stopped with the intention of cashing that ticket and getting a $20 ticket in exchange. But at the last minute I instead decided to throw in the extra dough and splurge to buy a $50 ticket.

I tossed that $50 ticket in my laptop case and did not think of it again until sitting down to breakfast with my wife very early Wednesday morning.

I began scratching and revealed a $1000 spot and told my wife, then another $1000 and told my wife, then another $1000 at which point my wife said to stop telling her or I would jinx it.

In the end it was a $20,000 winning ticket. (in case you are wondering, the state took $1k and the feds $4.8k)

So it has been agreed, we (she) gets new leaf-guard style gutters on the house, and I get a tactical style semi-auto shotgun.

Doing my research it seems that a Beretta 1301 would be the choice of many people. In reviews it is highly praised even over the admittedly more rugged, but heavier and slower cycling, Benelli M4. Also the M4 is $2K now.

However the Beretta 1301 does go for $1700, so should I be considering the Beretta A300 Ultima Patrol which by all accounts is a great gun for the price of about $950.

Yes, I know I am at risk of having @drgrant call me a lottery winning skinflint, but hear me out...

I have never owned a semi-auto shotgun.
The 870 pump shotgun I own seldom gets fired.
I know I would shoot the semi-auto more often because it looks like fun and that's why I want it, but I'm not into 3-gun competition shooting or similar, so it would still just be a range toy and home defense purchase. Although I might expand my horizons with some classes or such.

Keeping in mind I will still need to put an optic on whichever one I buy, and the $700 difference between the A300UP and 1301T would buy a legit rugged optic like a Trijicon or Aimpoint, plus some accessories like shell carriers.

So would a novice like me even appreciate the difference between the two Beretta? Should I get the A300UP and some swag, or should I just go for it and buy the better gun, the 1301T, while I have the scratch???

Remember the wife is expecting them gutters.

Just make sure to save $14k to cover taxes