Remington SPR 310 Over/Under

[Direwolf]

I am considering buying this model of shot gun for Pheasant hunting. It looks like Remington bought a Russian manufacturer and imports them. They seem solid and nice enough for the price, anyone have any experience with them?

[ee3]

Pheasants ??? you mean the birds that used to be in MI. with the long tails...

[jbirds]

Not sure about the Remington but I've spent a bunch of time out west and we all switched to Autoloaders specifically benelli's. Not the cheapest of the bunch but I've shot mine silly for a week straight and never had any problems, it's not too heavy to carry all day like my red label. The big thing is that it's easy on the shoulder and I don't worry about scratching it like I do my "pretty" guns. I ended up getting mine used from a great shop in Traverse City when I lived there. It's the only gun I've bought used but boy am I happy.

J Smith

[Fox]

the gun in question used to be marketed as Spartin if memory serves. I haven't used one myself, but alos haven't heard anything bad either. Other than it's more of a blue collar field gun. If you don't do allot of pheasant hunting you may want to consider a 20 ga. A little lighter and a little more versitile as an upland gun. Pretty much all I use on trips out west and cleanly kill many birds. The problem with 12 ga is that many people have a false sense of increased range.

[jbirds]

Definately support the 20 gauge idea, I shoot a 12 only because I haven't spent the $$$ on a 20 but I've hunted with a couple of women that can shoot rings around me in the field and they bag as many or more birds than me everytime with 20's.