Chinese Shotgun

Any experience or opinions on this reasonably priced shotgun available thru www.centuryarms.com ? Use 3 and 2 3/4 inch shells? OK for beginning skeet shooting? Decent all around?

12 Ga. Pump Shotgun, Model YL12-IJ4 (Synthetic Stock) Nicely made pump gun that's just perfect for home defense. All steel construction, semi-polished blue finish. Full choke, available in synthetic or wood stock, 3' chamber, 19' barrel. Rifle type front sight, bottom load, bottom eject (left-hand and right-hand friendly) stock is semi-gloss finish with recoil pad. 5 shot total (4 shot tubular magazine) trigger guard mounted safety, loaded chamber release lever. Lead shot only. Made in China. Overall: 49 1/4'. Weight: 7.3 lbs.

Condition: New (Synthetic Stock)

The full choke and short barrel and rifle type sight make it difficult for skeet. Also I doubt that they would hold up very long under skeet conditions. They are should ok to stick in the closet and shoot a box or less every year.

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www.centuryarms.com ?

I seem to recall seeing a page the late Mark Penman had started on one. I wish I could recall the article, but if it is typical of most Norinco guns, it will have some obvious lack of quality control in some areas, which I believe he addressed. A poor man's Ithaca 37, really.

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on 11/30/2002 11:29 PM Eastern Standard Time in

#>Bottom eject.. it sounds like a clone of the Ithaca 37 (which itself is a take-off of a Winchester designed by Browning.) If so, they picked a good shotgun to copy; whether they did a good job or not, I don't know.

Remington, Model 17, was the Browning-designed forerunner of the Model 37 Ithaca, not a Winchester.

Swearengen's World's Fighting Shotguns, pg. 260

# Any experience or opinions on this reasonably priced shotgun available thru # www.centuryarms.com ? Use 3 and 2 3/4 inch shells? OK for beginning skeet # shooting? Decent all around? # # 12 Ga. Pump Shotgun, Model YL12-IJ4 (Synthetic Stock) # Nicely made pump gun that's just perfect for home defense. All steel # construction, semi-polished blue finish. Full choke, available in synthetic # or wood stock, 3' chamber, 19' barrel. Rifle type front sight, bottom load, # bottom eject (left-hand and right-hand friendly) stock is semi-gloss finish # with recoil pad. 5 shot total (4 shot tubular magazine) trigger guard # mounted safety, loaded chamber release lever. Lead shot only. Made in China. # Overall: 49 1/4'. Weight: 7.3 lbs. #

I bought one a year or so ago and have been pretty pleased with it. Overall fit and finish is better that you'd expect on a $150 gun. Mine is a very good copy of an Ithaca 37 as I broke the top extractor hook and an Ithaca part dropped right in. Function has improved as I shoot it but a word of warning, OO buck and slugs are an adventure. Can you say recoil? I keep mine behind the bedroom door, first up is two #6's followed by two #4 buckshot. For the price I couldn't pass it up and I'm not disappointed.

Stay safe.

# # # Any experience or opinions on this reasonably priced shotgun available thru # # www.centuryarms.com ? Use 3 and 2 3/4 inch shells? OK for beginning skeet # # shooting? Decent all around? # #

Where on this site can one view this shotgun you are talking about? What category?

these are as rude & crude as an AK which I also love. for the money you can't beat them as a home defense gun or cheap deer gun. i've sold ones that haven't come back, folks seem happy. for my money Norinco makes wonderful products

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