If you want to shoot skeet, sporting clays or trap get an over and under, next semi, then lastly pump. Save the lever for home defense etc. Probably wouldn’t consider the pump either.
Could go really old school and use a side by side, two hammers, two triggers, and no safety... like grandpa used to shoot.
Don’t see much of that anymore.
He won a lot of events with that old gun, and a number of us wondered what the heck grandma did with it after he passed.
We assumed she gave it to one of his old shooting buddies who came skulking around asking for it after he died, and none of us grandkids ever ended up with it. Oh well.
I’ve mentioned my first shooting was with a Marlin 60. That was his also, and also disappeared after he passed. The ones I shoot today, I bought later. Wish we had ended up with his somewhere in the family.
Nothing particularly exciting about a Marlin 60 unless it was the first gun you used to take out plinking.
His stuff disappearing after he passed, still annoys all of us grandkids who shoot. But who knows. For all we know he had a deal with said shooting buddy.
All we really knew was grandma didn’t sell them, and wasn’t against anyone having them, so ... a minor family mystery that died with grandma. LOL.
Even his reloading stuff disappeared and that’s what has fueled the theory that his shooting buddy game and collected it all.
I hadn’t thought about that side by side in decades. I don’t even remember what model it was. Mostly back then I thought it was loud. Haha.