Category: Shotgun Reviews

The Beretta 1301 Comp is a gas operated, semi automatic, Italian, tube magazine shotgun. With 3 gun gaining in popularity, more manufacturers are building the shotguns that we used to have to make from scratch. Adding on oversized bolt releases, using generous loading ports, oversized bolt handles, safeties, longer magazine tubes, and more. These accessories…

The Stoeger M3500 is a semi automatic, tube magazine, inertia-action shotgun made in Turkey. As far as 3 1/2″ semi automatic, inertia driven shotguns go, it’s extremely inexpensive at less than half the cost of others. It also comes very well featured, with 4 chokes, a shim kit to adjust the stock, Weaver scope base,…

Well here’s something a little different; a lever action shotgun! The Adler Arms is a fairly new, lever action, tube magazine, 12 gauge shotgun from Turkey. Capable of cycling 2 3/4 and 3″ shells, the A-110 is in a very small class of lever action shotguns. Here in Canada, there are some Norinco and Chiappa…

The Dagger SAP-6 is a fairly new, pump action, magazine fed shotgun out of Turkey. With 6 and 11 round magazines legal for use in Canada, it’s definitely the high capacity, magazine-fed leader here. It’s a unique combo that gives the shotgun a couple very compelling use cases. Tactical Imports kindly provided this SAP-6 test…

So far, this is just an initial review. This particular Valtro PM-5 is second-hand and I haven’t used it enough to give it a long term reliability report. The shotgun has some allure for 3 gun competition in Canada because it’s magazine-fed and uses large, 7 round magazines. If you fumble with reloading a tube with shotshells,…

The Remington 1100 is an older, gas-operated, semi-automatic shotgun. Even though the design is a bit outdated, it’s still in use today and there are TONS of used ones out there. Produced since 1963, the 1100 is well known for helping to reduce recoil due to its gas-operated action, and for its reliability. . .most…

There are a bajillion reviews out there on the UTAS UTS-15, but few on the Hunting variant as used for hunting. I’m going to ONLY focus on using this shotgun for hunting as I think there are a ton of great reviews out there on this shotgun and I’d be wasting your time repeating general information here.…

I want to make this review real quick: this is an inexpensive, very packable shotgun of limited, unique, uses. This is not a general application shotgun for deer, grouse, goose, etc. It’s also not a premium shotgun: fit and finish are on-par with a shotgun that I’d pay $100-$150 for, but locking surfaces are strong…

I’ll make this review quick, because these shotguns aren’t in fantastic supply right now and they’re not exactly new on store shelves. This shotgun is a Boito 410 Side by Side (SxS). I believe it was about $400 when purchased new and features 26″ barrels, double triggers, and extractors. It’s a bit heavy for a…