Shotgun Review: Is the Dirt-Cheap Spandau Arms S2 Semi-Auto Up to the Job? - Field & Stream

For decades now, the prices for affordable shotguns have been locked in a race to the bottom. That’s good news for hunters because, during all of that time, manufacturers have figured out how to make inexpensive guns work. Take the Mossberg 500, for example. It may not win any beauty contests, but you can drag it through a duck marsh, and it’ll keep on shooting.

That said, the 500 is a pump gun, and pump-actions are usually pretty affordable. Decent semi-auto shotguns are always more pricey. But when I saw the new Spandau Arms S2 inertia-driven shotgun for less than $500, I wondered if we’ve finally hit rock bottom. I was also curious about how good this gun actually is. So I called up Spandau, asked for a sample gun, and hunted with it all season. I took the S2 from New York’s northern border to Stuttgart, Arkansas, shooting everything from pint-size teal to big Canadian honkers. Here’s what you need to know about the gun and how it did.

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Shotgun Review: Is the Dirt-Cheap Spandau Arms S2 Semi-Auto Up to the Job? - Field & Stream