r/canadaguns • u/Longjumping_Deer3006 • Apr 13 '26

Gun and gear reviews Misleading Claims

What are some of the misleading claims that you have heard from firearm manufacturers/hunting gear brands and hunting/shooting influencers?

Wondering because I often see ads for hunting rifles or shotguns being overhyped or just in the most unrealistic of situations. Or another example would be MDT's HNT26 chassis (I'm not hating on MDT, yes I have bought products from them) but I find it just unnecessary to pay that much for a chassis to do the same job that a Tikka T3x light or a pencil barrel Mauser would do.

I want to hear your thoughts.

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u/tyler111762 Resident Certified Millennial Punk Apr 13 '26

The problem is they are so hit or miss.

To take a page from another community, reviews on Turkish shotguns are pretty well a "works on my machine" approval.

My operator is probably closing on 1000 rounds and ive only had a handful of malfunctions, most of which were remediated by bumping the charging handle to unstick the shell/lifter, and I have never cleaned the damn thing since I got it.

But then you hear people having catastrophic malfunctions after only a couple hundred rounds.

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u/DougMacRay617 Apr 13 '26

The fact that its "hit or miss" is exactly the fuckin point. Me and 6 friends have 1301s of varrying gen's from the first gen 2nd gen and a mod2 we are all well past 2k with some of us fast approaching 5k round count Nobodys ever ran into ammo the guns dont like or any consistent malfs. The guns just work. But people will continue to buy shit tier shotguns shoot 250 rnds a year and claim "great quality never gave me an issues"

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u/tyler111762 Resident Certified Millennial Punk Apr 13 '26

10000%

1301 is my go to recommendation for anyone looking for a semi auto shotgun.

Really wish there was a budget semi auto i could recomend like the mav88 is for pump guns, but they just do not exist.

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u/iatekane Apr 13 '26

Stoeger m3k is the budget semi I recommend if that’s all their budget allows