Browning B-80?

[M.T. Pockets]

I hate to throw cold water on the B-80, but I had one when they first came out in about 1982 and thought it would be my shotgun for life.

At best it was unreliable, at it's worst it didn't work at all. It was a 3" magnum that was supposed to be able to handle heavy 2 3/4 loads too. The 2 3/4" loads wouldn't cycle reliably, and the 3" loads wouldn't clear the action reliably. Sometimes when it would cycle a new round the trigger wouldn't work. Cleaning it wouldn't help.

Now this is only one gun and maybe it was a lemon, but I swore off autoloaders and ended up trading it in on an 870.

I don't know how long Browning sold this model, but I think today's autoloaders are much, much better.