B 2000 A good buy?

$300 won't quite buy you a brand new Turkish Charles Daly gas semi automatic shotgun at Wal Mart, but it does come very close.

Provided that B2000 is in nice shape, $300 is a screaming bargain. I own one, with three barrels, and it's an absolute jewel of a shotgun. It reminds me of a Swiss watch. The damn things cost more than three hundred bucks brand new back thirty years ago, with one barrel, not two.

They are supposed to even be able to shoot steel shot, except for the largest sizes. Brand new old stock spare barrels are available, cheap, from Jeff's Outfitters. Parts are still available from Gun Parts. Mine only likes the standard ounce and a eighth 3 dram trap loads, but it's so "new" it's really not broken in yet.

I promise you that $300 won't touch anything else even remotely comparable in quality.

When you do don;t be scared of the side loading, it woorks really well, when you have mastered it. If your right handed, hold the gun in your right hand with the bolt open, saftey on and finger off the trigger. Now push a shell in to the loading port, with the left hand, don't push it all the way in, but let it rebound on to the carrier latch trip. Tha shell will be speed feed into the chamber. Now load up the magazine through the port, the last shell will sit on the carrier latch and be full visable. The last shell is quite happy here and will not fall out and feeds OK. All the shells from the magazine can be pulled out off the loading port to empty the gun, just remember to lift the cartridge stop to let them out of the tube. If you don't fancy the speed load you can drop a shell in the ejection port and trip the latch from underneath the gun, them load up the magazine through the loading port. Please let us all know how you get on with the gun. I am a fan of it. Regards Richard.