i dont have any experience with the bps, but they look nice. my only concern is the bottom eject, my guess is that system takes more parts to operate, which means more parts to fail. it looks like it would be harder to clean too. but i dont have experience with it so i dont know. but for me personally, id buy remington, they're cheaper and you know they're reliable.
Actually it doesn't have any effect on reliability.
Famed Arms designers John M. Browning and John Penderson designed the basic mechanism used in both the Ithica Model 37 and the Browning BPS.
(As well as the remington Model 31 which preceeded the current 870)
the largest single user of the Ithica Model 37 is the LAPD and I think if there were a reliability problem with them they would have bought something else
to replace them in the SIXTY YEARS they have been using them.
The BPS is essentially a more polished and refined version of the Model37
The BPS and Ithica have no "ejector" as the "loading gate" or "shell lifter" throws one shell down while moving into position to lift the next round into position for the bolt to drive it into the chamber....
The one thing that might take some getting used to is loading
single rounds they must be loaded into the magazine tube with
the bolt closed and the action cycled. on a conventional side
ejection pump shotgun a single round dropped in through the
ejection port and the action closed to fire single shots.
Tat all being said if I were in the market for yet another pump shotgun
in 12ga or 20ga it'd probably be another Remington, if I were looking for
a 10ga It'd be a Browning because the Browning BPS-10 is the only
one out there...
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