Low recoil semi auto?

[PLEDGEY 496]

I'm after a semi auto shotgun with low recoil. At first i thought about a Hatsan Escort, but now i have been reading about the Berreta A300 Outlander. Which has the least recoil?, is there a semi with better recoil out there?. What ever i get must be left handed as well.

[optelic2 48]

I used to own a Beretta 391 semi auto and that seemed to have pretty low recoil... less than the escort i had.

[samearl14 11]

My beretta a303 is good low recoil. But obviously depends on what carts youre using. Some have more felt recoil then others obviously.

[richmcgin 32]

i brought an escort last year to replace a beretta 301 and i think the escort is lighter recoil but the 301 was an old boy. problem with the escort is that they dont like short carts, well mine anyway wont cycle them i only use 67mm now and they work great. had a benelli for a while but it was a pile of crap.

[PLEDGEY 496]

I feeling more drawn to the Outlander!.

[mjr88 50]

Hi PLEDGEY

 

About a year ago , i too was in the market for a low recoil Autoloader. I was looking for a gun under the £1000 price tag. After handing and shooting a few , i opted for the Winchester SX3 Composite 3.5'' Magnum.

 

This gun has never missed a beat and the recoil with normal hunting loads is zero. I dont do clay pigeon just pest control , so i went for the composite model for the rough and tumble of field use.

If memory serves , i paid just under £900 , and that includes a 5 year warranty with Winchester.

 

As i was completely new to semi auto's , i was dreading the first time when i had to completely strip , clean and relube the gun. This however proved no problem at all , as i found a video on the tube that shows how to do just that

 

 

Regards ,

 

John

 

 

Edited March 10, 2012 by mjr88

[Mrg 8]

Hi mate I bought an al391 urika 2 with kick off. Stock. Its a pleasure to shoot with very little recoil !

[PLEDGEY 496]

Hi PLEDGEY

 

About a year ago , i too was in the market for a low recoil Autoloader. I was looking for a gun under the £1000 price tag. After handing and shooting a few , i opted for the Winchester SX3 Composite 3.5'' Magnum.

 

This gun has never missed a beat and the recoil with normal hunting loads is zero. I dont do clay pigeon just pest control , so i went for the composite model for the rough and tumble of field use.

If memory serves , i paid just under £900 , and that includes a 5 year warranty with Winchester.

 

As i was completely new to semi auto's , i was dreading the first time when i had to completely strip , clean and relube the gun. This however proved no problem at all , as i found a video on the tube that shows how to do just that

 

 

Regards ,

 

John

 

 

Your needs are exactally the same as mine, no clay, just pest control. I'll have a look at these, cheers.

[verminator 66 2]

Hi PLEDGEY About a year ago , i too was in the market for a low recoil Autoloader. I was looking for a gun under the £1000 price tag. After handing and shooting a few , i opted for the Winchester SX3 Composite 3.5'' Magnum. This gun has never missed a beat and the recoil with normal hunting loads is zero. I dont do clay pigeon just pest control , so i went for the composite model for the rough and tumble of field use. If memory serves , i paid just under £900 , and that includes a 5 year warranty with Winchester. As i was completely new to semi auto's , i was dreading the first time when i had to completely strip , clean and relube the gun. This however proved no problem at all , as i found a video on the tube that shows how to do just that Regards , John

Your needs are exactally the same as mine, no clay, just pest control. I'll have a look at these, cheers.

Thats what I use and find it fine even with shoulder probs

[David Dey 2]

I'm after a semi auto shotgun with low recoil. At first i thought about a Hatsan Escort, but now i have been reading about the Berreta A300 Outlander. Which has the least recoil?, is there a semi with better recoil out there?. What ever i get must be left handed as well.

 

Hi.

If you are buying new there are only Benelli, Hatsan or Fabarm that do left hand.

I've just ordered a Fabarm for wildfowling(you can use steel shot with all the chokes that are supplied, 2/10, 5/10, 7/10 and 9/10) Google it and you'll see what they are like.

I'm chopping in a Benelli M2 for it.

 

DD

[jackinbox99 41]

Another vote for the 391 from me. Cracking gun. Ive put thousands of shells through mine without any problems. Only ever had 1 jam from memory and that was when I hadnt cleaned the gun for about 6 months! Cleaning it litterally is a 10minute job. Very quick and easy. I tend to do it twice a year.

 

I dont find any recoil hardly at all on mine, although depends on what cartridges you put through it. I tried some 21g and 24g on the clays last year for my missus to use and recoil was zero! The gun also cycled them perfectly fine, as well as heavier cartridges for pigeons in the field.

 

They also hold their value very well. You see them 2nd hand sometimes fro 600->700 and you can guarentee in 12 months time it will still be worth that.

[Extremetaz 15]

I used to use a Fabarm XLR which was pretty light on recoil, but even if you can find something that's respectively soft, you could always consider getting it ported to reduce things even farther.

 

I only just used a ported Berette O/U at a work organised clay outing there a few weeks back, hadn't ever used a ported gun before, but there was a noticable reduction in recoil over the unported version right beside it.

 

I'm unsure of the trade off's as regards range etc... and as I mentioned, this was a clay gun not a field gun, but it might be worth looking into in any case.

Furthermore, I use a Gamma Lux these days so trap guns would feel softer to me anyway, but as I said, I got to shoot ported and unported versions one after the other, and there was an appreciable difference none the less.

 

On the other hand, if you're only after a game only gun then you could consider some of the older semi's - by way of example, a neighbour of mine has a Remington model II. Now she's a heavy piece, wallowy as f**k between shots, and she won't cycle anything less than a long brass 5 - but the felt recoil is next to nothing, so perhaps worth looking in that direction too.

[FIESTA 0]

Yes sx3 brilliant gun with no misfeeds