Field Tested: Spandau S2 - Game & Fish Magazine

Rarely will you find something that is less expensive today than it was five or 10 years ago. Although technology does have the potential to lower the cost of manufacturing and components, better technology usually produces goods that come with more features or greater benefits, which in turn carry higher price tags.

There is an exception, however, and it comes in the form of the inertia-operated shotgun. Semi-autos built on inertia operating systems have established themselves as workhorses among bird hunters because they can handle a wide range of loads and shoot them day in and day out with little maintenance. They may never win a beauty contest, but there is something to admire about one gun that can go from dusty, 90-degree Texas dove fields to icy, 30-degree Maine shorelines without needing much attention other than a cursory cleaning (or not). Inertia guns run, whether the birds and conditions call for light loads or magnums, and they do it more cleanly than their gas-operated counterparts. No fussing with gas pistons or their rings, either.

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Field Tested: Spandau S2 - Game & Fish Magazine