I almost, ALMOST, bought a shotgun on another forum (would have had to join just to buy it), but I am unsure of what the expected life of a 12 gauge shotgun is. This was/is a Mossberg 590, with about 600 rounds through it. I know that's nothing for a pistol, but it seems like a lot for a shotgun. So, what is a medium-to-high round count for a 12 gauge? I'm talking a quality shotty, like the 590, or a Remington 870 Express.
upnorth at my cousins cabin me my bro, my cousins and uncle have killed whole pallets of clays in one day, over the course of a few days we put many many hundreds of rounds through an 870 and i think the other is an 1100 auto. The newest guns are more than 20 years old. My uncle has 8 brothers and sisters, and they all have kids (avg about 4 -5 kids), the cabin is kinda the family compound / retreat. the house guns have seen countless rounds.
You cant kill an 870.
to give you an idea grandpa has over 100 people no exageration show up at his house for christmas, italian catholic .... that cabin every weekend has people at it, the 870 is more than30 years old, i cant imagine the things people have done with them, as this is a hard partying play hard family, they wreck ATVs, tractors, snow mobiles, 4x4s like its going out of style. I will have to ask to make certain,but i think the 870 has been at the cabin since they cabin was built in about 1964/65, the 1100 since atleast when i was a kid. I cant fathom how many rounds they have through them, any guest shoots the house guns, or anyone who is a kid (talking about 50 little grandkids of grandpas) etc. I will ask if anything has ever broke, i dont think anything major, we are talking tens of thousands of rounds easy, i have put probably 2,000 through it myself in just a few years before i got my own shooty.
