upgrade?

[Fat Boy]

I have for several years owned a Winchester 1200 shotgun. A couple of years ago, reading several comments about this gun being unequal to other shotguns, I cut the barrel off to 20 inches, and have kept it for home defense purposes.

Having thought through the situation, I would like to own a shotgun that would reasonably handle bird hunting, defense, and slugs, should I ever decide to use that function for, say deer hunting. I am basically trying to cover all the possible needs I might have for the gun.

So, for around, say $250 I can buy a longer barrel for birds and a slug barrel for my Winchester. Is this a good idea, or should I try to trade the Winchester on an 870, or other gun with multiple barrels?

Thanks!

 

[Water-Man]

Consider a Remington 870 Express Combo.

 

[Pete409]

If you like the 1200 (and there is no reason you shouldn't), then just buy the extra 2 barrels for it.

 

[Virginian]

The barrel you have may function perfectly fine with slugs. Never know until you try. If it throws them fairly tight then all you need is some better sights on that barrel and another barrel for birds.

 

[rcmodel]

+1

Unless you get a slug barrel with rifling for use with Sabot ammo, there is no reason to think a new Cyl bore slug barrel will do any better then the Cyl bore barrel you already have with Forster style rifled slugs.

Test it as is, and if you are happy with it's grouping ability, have sights installed on it.

Depending on what kind of birds you want to hunt, it may do fine for that too.
I killed an awful lot of Quail with a cut-off 20" Cyl bore single-shot when I was a teenager!

rc