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Offline shorthair-on-point

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need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« on: August 31, 2017, 02:20:59 PM »
My youngest daughter is also my smallest. She is the first one I actually will need to get a youth 20ga for rather than having her start with a 12ga. I don't want a pump or single shot (sorry all you 870 lovers). What are people experiences with any youth semi-autos or over/unders? Thanks

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #1 on: August 31, 2017, 02:30:18 PM »
Over/understand are a great safe option.

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2017, 08:19:39 PM »
The Weatherby SA-08 is a great soft shooting semi-auto, you only have to load a single shell until she gets comfortable.  A single trigger O/U is just a two barrel semi-auto. 

I shot an older CD version of the gun and it worked great for me(I shoot youth length stocks)
After the first shot the rest are just noise.

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #3 on: August 31, 2017, 08:46:18 PM »
AWS is correct on handling a semi-auto. Also look at a TriStar Viper Youth or Remington 11-87 Sportsman Youth or a Mossberg International Silver Reserve II Youth Bantam O/U.  :twocents:
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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #4 on: August 31, 2017, 10:47:17 PM »
I suggest a Remington LT 1100 20 GA.

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/687839618

My dad got me one when I was 11 yrs old and 38 yrs later it is still one of my favorite guns.

Note - the link above I'm not sure is really an LT. I believe the receiver should be marked LT but that one isn't. 

This one is for sure an LT: http://www.gunbroker.com/item/689276027
« Last Edit: August 31, 2017, 10:53:22 PM by Curly »
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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #5 on: August 31, 2017, 11:08:38 PM »
Browning makes the best light weight youth shotguns, hands down. 
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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #6 on: September 01, 2017, 08:06:10 AM »
My little SKB side by side has started several young ones, durable, simple and safe.  Before Washington went control nuts, it was on loan more than once

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2017, 09:04:53 AM »
I picked up a savage db over and under at Cabelas.   My daughter loves it.   I do too actually. I've been hammering the eurasians with it.

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2017, 09:34:20 AM »
I got a cheap Charles Daley from walmart a few years back thinking my son would outgrow it and it'd just sit in the safe until the next youth came along.  Well a handful of youths have used it and it's worked well for all of them.

my complaint is the recoil is sharp, the gun doesn't weigh much and even with light loads it has a sharp recoil.  I have thought about removing the recoil pad and putting sand in there  :dunno:

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #9 on: September 01, 2017, 09:36:24 AM »
This is interesting and mirrors my personal findings.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/gun-nuts/2013/02/youth-pump-gun-recoil

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #10 on: September 01, 2017, 09:43:51 AM »
https://www.budsgunshop.com/catalog/product_info.php/cPath/37_1056/products_id/57212/TriStar+20+Ga+Youth24%22+Barrel+w2%22+ExtensionBlack+Syntheti

My daughter started out with this shotgun, the TriStar semi auto. Both kids have shot trap with it and my daughter killed a few quail and dove with it. Ours will not consistently eject 7/8oz loads, need a 1oz load to get it to eject every time. We shoot a lot of trap, hate to pound the kids with 1oz loads,and they get tired of working the action every time they shoot the 7/8oz, so it stays home when we go to the gun club. Kids are big enough to shoot a youth BT99 now anyway. All in all, TriStar has put together a great kit, comes with a youth and adult stock, barrel extension and a bunch of chokes.
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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2017, 03:06:19 AM »
http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php?topic=217459.0 don't know where your located but this ad is up in Puyallup. Take a look if your near.

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2017, 02:41:20 PM »
My girlfriend shoots a youth model Mossberg SA-20. I believe it is the same gun as the weatherby SA-08 and the tri-star but sold under the mossberg name. It has been a solid little gun. As stated above, it doesn't like to consistently cycle light 7/8 target loads but hunting loads it cycles perfectly.


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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2017, 03:16:12 PM »
A second vote for the Remington 1100 LT 20 ga

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Re: need to get a shotgun for my daughter
« Reply #14 on: September 20, 2017, 07:52:57 AM »
I'd always start a kid with a single shot and then progress them to a pump or semiauto

 


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