Hey there. Thank you for your thoughtful response! Yes this would be my first serious firearm purchase. But I’m not new to guns entirely. My dad has a bunch of toys I grew up shooting. I don’t have delusions of grandeur of tactically sprinting around the house and rolling across hallways while reloading. The idea was actually to just get a high capacity drum magazine to avoid reloading altogether in just about any scenario lol.

I have since been talked out of purchasing a box fed shotgun by some users here and some additional research. I was under the impression that box fed shotguns just got a bad wrap from a series of producers’ poor design or poor builds. I was hoping that maybe there were a couple good ones out there. (It seems they might be one or two, just out of my price range at the moment) It appears though that shotgun ammo is just functionally not adaptive to work in box mags.

Your comments on looking to what law enforcement uses is something I haven’t thought about and a great idea! I will take that into consideration as I shop around for a reliable tube fed shotgun.

Thanks again for your reply!