Ultralight 12 gauge or 20 gauge

Split the difference and get a browning in 16g

If you do order the benelli get in left handed 20g. I, as a left handed shooter, only shoot right handed shotguns. And I genuinely don't understand why more right handed shooters aren't shooting left handed shotguns.
 
lil' bear said:
Do you enjoy flipping the gun over to load, unload and run the action? Wouldn't it be nice to be able to cut your reload time in half?
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What? flip what why wtf kinda koolaid are you drinkin dude?

Right hand keeps control of the gun and thumb shells into the belly with your left. Dont over complicate it
 
lil' bear said:
I genuinely don't understand why more right handed shooters aren't shooting left handed shotguns.
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Fit is one huge reason, a gun cast for a lefty will not fit a right handed shooter. Assuming the stock has shims for cast and can go either righty or lefty, the other reason is that you need both eyes open to shoot a shotgun and shells ejecting in front of your off-side eye hurt your ability to maintain focus on a target for a followup shot or to acquire a second target. People do it (mainly leftys shooting righty because they have to), but there is only drawback with no benefit that matters to me. Faster reloads is questionable and even if true its WAAAAAAAY down the list of importance compared to fit and not interfering with your vision.
 
Macintosh said:
Fit is one huge reason, a gun cast for a lefty will not fit a right handed shooter. Assuming the stock has shims for cast and can go either righty or lefty, the other reason is that you need both eyes open to shoot a shotgun and shells ejecting in front of your off-side eye hurt your ability to maintain focus on a target for a followup shot or to acquire a second target. People do it (mainly leftys shooting righty because they have to), but there is only drawback with no benefit that matters to me. Faster reloads is questionable and even if true its WAAAAAAAY down the list of importance compared to fit and not interfering with your vision.
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Most factory shotguns don't have cast. But if the gun does have cast that can be a deal breaker for sure. As far as the shell, it's out of there so fast you can't see it.
I just like bringing this topic up from time to time because 100% of left handed shooters I've talked to prefer the ergonomics of having the action on the inside of the body. But I've never met a single right handed shooter willing to even try shooting a left handed shotgun.
 
Steve300xcw said:
Yea but what barrel do you shoot first?
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The front trigger one…

My post was a joke. It’s actually cast for a right handed shooter.

Although, one year i disassembled my Berretta for cleaning. When I reassembled it I screwed up and installed the shims for a lefty shooter. It took me a bit the next year but I shot it all year with it like that before I pulled it apart and realized what I did.
 
I have a Franchi little light weight 20 gauge that my grandfather bought to carry quail hunting. He shot it on 1 hunt and gave it to me. It is brutal, light short and a hard recoil pad. Its rough.
 
lil' bear said:
Most factory shotguns don't have cast.
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This is demonstrably false. At a minimum many of the most popular shotguns DO, ie all berettas, all benellis, all franchis, etc. many brownings do as well.
lil' bear said:
But if the gun does have cast that can be a deal breaker for sure.
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Yes, it would be for me.
lil' bear said:
As far as the shell, it's out of there so fast you can't see it.
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Its fast, but your eye is faster. A split second is plenty to break your focus. Major issue? Probably not. But 100% harming your ability to maintain binocular focus on a moving target.
lil' bear said:
I just like bringing this topic up from time to time because 100% of left handed shooters I've talked to prefer the ergonomics of having the action on the inside of the body. But I've never met a single right handed shooter willing to even try shooting a left handed shotgun.
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Yes. For a very good reason.

You do you, if you prefer it thats great, but its not good general advice. Dont want to derail the 20 vs 12 thread with this, but since op is asking about a new gun thought it was on target enough to make the point.
 
I've got an M2, affinity 3 and a stoeger 3020 all in 20 gauge and like all 3 of them. I've got several 12 gauges as well and never shoot them.
 
I hunt public land pheasants 15-30 times a year (frequency depending on tags drawn and age of tax credits) in Missouri, South Dakota, and a couple states in between. Every year, I put away my 12 gauge Benelli Ethos for my 20 gauge Benelli Ultralight for a couple hunts. And every year, I go back to the 12 after a couple of winged birds don’t make it home with me. I walk too far to feel like I’m leaving birds on the table. My GSP threatens to run away when I bring the 20.

I seem to be in the minority, and the mid November 2025 version of me will probably get the 20 out again, but I doubt this is will be the year I become a convert.
 
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