Originally Posted by
Vegasshooter
A bit of a derail, but yes, 3gun is definitely putting shotguns through usage patterns that they weren't designed for. I've seen and shot stages that would burn a whole box (25) shells. When I flip my shotgun over to load, I wear a glove on my left hand because the barrel will blister your hand. I think the competition/competitors are definitely pushing companies and designers into better guns. JMHO. Sorry for the drift.
Quite relevant, actually. Revealing limitations and flaws in designs is something very valuable for any manufactured good, be it guns, trucks, boats, tools, or anything else. Weak points in designs will fail faster in heavy usage scenarios but still can fail in the previously-thought-to-be normal use as well. Maybe you're right in that these days we hold shotguns to higher standards so we notice more defects or have become less tolerant of them. I remember the one failure my youth 20ga 1100 had when I was a kid when the action handle broke off while dove hunting. Sure it wasn't supposed to happen but we just brought it to the shop and a week or two it was fixed. What we didn't say at the time was "What the heck?!?! I've only run 400 rounds through this thing! I wasn't running it that hard! My Benelli has 6K rounds through it and I haven't even cleaned it!" It was thought to be and still is thought to be a quality gun, made in the late 80's, but as you correctly point out NOT a heavy duty high round count gun.
It's interesting you mention, GH41, the time of the Internet getting big. That kind of nicely coincided with the Clinton ban years bringing about the EBR boom and higher round counts on long guns becoming much more common versus predominantly bolt gun decades prior. I guess dove hunting and clays have always been higher volume than was typical for rifles for most of history but I wonder how much it picked up even more due to the influence of higher round count usage on rifles in the last couple of decades.
Last edited by yellowfin; 08-20-17 at 22:24.
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