Ithaca Model 37

Mossberg 835. It's the best patterning shotgun there is and you can roll it in the mud then shoot it. I recently did some pretty scientific patterning of a Mossberg 835 stock mod, 870 fancy extended mod, weatherby stock mod and beneli stock mod. I shot them all at 20 and at 40 yrds. The beneli absolutely sucked. Didn't pattern for crap, it's not even in the runnings. The weatherby was decent. It was nice at 20 but had holes at 40. The fancy choked 870 had a nearly identical pattern at 40 as the 835 every time. Both put130-140 in the circle over 2 shots and we're well ddistributed. The difference is at 20 the 870 had no spread and was way too tight. The old 835 had a nice spread at 20 but still had just as many in the circle at 40. Having hunted with all of the above mentioned guns the Mossberg not only patterns best but it also can go a long time between cleanings and do it's job. The others will do the job but they seem to need to be cleaned more often.