835 ultimag

[Hunting_Medic]

Who hunts with one and what do you thing about it?

[quackrstackr]

I've had a couple of them. The first I bought the first year they came out, you couldn't kill that gun. It had the wood hardware and was blued and I just had to have one of the camoed shorties for turkey hunting when they came out, so I traded it in for one of those. The second gun was a little tighter, and better looking IMO, but it would fail to feed at times, shucking a live round out the bottom... and had a catastrophic failure in the carrier assembly while duck hunting one morning. I'm not sure what happened, the shell didn't rupture, but a large chunk of metal around the extractor blew out the side of the gun, covering my face in a flash of fire and powder residue. In retrospect I guess I'm lucky it didn't get much in my right eye, it did singe my eyebrow. I traded that gun in it's wrecked state that very afternoon on an 870 supermag and never looked back.

That was the first year the 870 SM came out, I still have it and love it for turkey hunting but bought a camo Nova this year with a bit longer 26" barrel for waterfowling. After having immediate camo problems with that gun, the dealer replaced it no questions asked and I've been tickled with the new one so far.

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Straight powder.......

[squirrelsniper]

I've had several of the 835s throughout the years and I've liked all of them. However, being the foolish person that I am, I'd always want something "different" so I'd sell or trade the 835 to get something else. After trying a bunch of other shotguns, I finally decided to stick with an 835, because I haven't found anything that I like better than the 835.

The 835 always works and all of them that I've owned have patterned very good for a factory gun. Once the proper load and choke is found, they can shoot some very impressive patterns. The only complaint that I can come up with is that the trigger pull is heavier than I like, but almost every factory gun carries a "lawsuit preventative" trigger.

Of course the only reason I even own a shotgun is for turkey hunting, so something else might work better for other types of hunting. For turkey hunting though, I think the 835 is just about perfect.

Close only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades

[bowhunter1963]

inexpensive....and it shows.....try a Benelli Nova

Great gun, and not a lot of money.

Remington 870 is the premier pump

[steelslinger]

I posted this same thing about the 500. The 835 and the 500 share the same basic designs. The only flaws I have encountered has been with taking the gun apart in the field. As a duck hunter, I have dropped my gun in the mud, it has fell in the water, subjected to sand and ice and required field stripping the gun and cleaning it. The 835 and the 500 IMO have too many parts for field stripping with cold hands. I owned an 835 and while field cleaning one morning (too much oil on a very cold morning and the hammer wouldn't fall, my fault) I dropped one of the bars in the mud and almost didn't find it. We got home after the hunt and I cleaned it and traded it for an 870 super mag, one of the best shotguns I've ever owned.

835 is a great turkey gun, but not my choice for waterfowling, but I have a buddy that swears by them, I swore at the one I had lol.

870 super mag is comparable in price, give it some serious consideration, or a Nova.

In the end its your choice, just think about what you want to use your gun for and then weight your options.

shoot em in the lips

[headhunter155]

I think they are excellent guns. Mine throws a great pattern and is very reliable. The price of the gun allows me piece of mind that if something happens to it I will not be out of pocket to much!

[UKhunter]

I own one and couldn't be happeir with it. I was skeptical at first becuase I beleive that you get what you pay for. If you buy a good gun and take care of it it should last you your whole life. I bought my 835 for a turkey gun (camo), but it serves as an ideal duck gun. I just leave the turkey choke in it and shoot steel out when after duck. The only compaint I have about the gun is that the holes drilled in the end of the barrel rusted very quickly even though I clean and oil the gun every time I shoot it. A great gun to "beat" around with.

Nate

[Multidigits]

I can't fault the gun much. When mine was new, it had a slight extractor problem that was fixed. It works evertime now. I've got the combo, and it has a very accurate slug barrel, better than both the others I have--one a Rem. and the other a Hastings.

The 835 is built on a 10 ga. barrel. It's a fine shotgun for the money.