Browning 825

I had a good look at one a while back. It felt good to me. The new forend is a great improvement. Schnabel forends are awful. It fit me reasonably well for off the shelf, just need one of Brownings longer recoil pads. I have a couple of 725’s and will end up trying an 825 out of curiosity.
 
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I had a good look at one a while back. It felt good to me. The new forend is a great improvement. Schnabel forends are awful. It fit me reasonably well for off the shelf, just need one of Brownings longer recoil pads. I have a couple of 725’s and will end up trying an 825 out of curiosity.
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How did the forend feel, Similar to a Caesar or something else?
 
An 8 pound gun with reduced sized palm swell's for a person with smaller fingers?

An 8 pound gun is usually handled better by a "larger" person with "larger" fingers where a larger palm swell feels "just right".

The 725 is a great gun.

This 8 stuff. The new Browning "8" Ball? Maybe the same marketing guys as Jaguar.

Just how much has that trigger mechanism been changed for "lighter loads"? A possible problem? If it works don't fix it.

Just saying.

Thank you for the post Mr. Alan.
 
The 825 does not have that sharp from edge on the forend. And it felt at least, like less taper from to back. It’s still not a Sporting style beavertail which is my preference because I move my left hand up and down the forend and I like a consistent feel with no taper.

I also really like the flat rib. My 725’s have a slight ramp. Although when it’s comes to actually shooting it doesn’t matter..

I am not really a Browning guy. But I have shot them all over the years and they really are good guns. 325 through to the 725. I am sure the 825 will be just fine. The one thing I wonder about is why some may have been so barrel heavy. I have had to weight the stock on all of them. I think the 825 was pretty much balanced at the hinge pin though.
 
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Was looking at a 825 review also , seen Jonny form TGS outdoors shooting it an event down in the states and Steve from TFL , neither one was really seemed super impressed with it.
Have to wait till some other reviews come out of they come to a LGS near me to look on over closer,
 
The 525/625 series fit me perfectly out of the box, the 725 has less drop at comb ,and fits more like an Italian gun. I am wondering how the 825 fits. As well, when they brought out the 725, they went with the flat rib, and abandoned the medium rib, it looks like Browning wants the Citori to be more like a Beretta, which might make some people happy ,but it makes the Citori less attractive to people that liked the older Citori models .
 
I lost interest in anything Browning when camo hoodies,stickers and seat covers became more important than what should be the primary focus, GUNS. Their customer service is beyond terrible!
 
I'll start by saying that ascetic's are important to me, if the look of the gun isn't pleasing to my eye then I won't be happy with it and I'm not happy at all with the ascetics of this gun. The styling of the receiver is ugly in my opinion and matt finishes are cheap looking. They are easier and less expensive to make than deep blue finishes because the high level of polishing isn't required like it is for bluing but the savings are not passed on the the consumer. The "8" logo looks terrible and I've never liked the stag head emblem that Browning puts on everything they make.

I'm curious about the Invector DS choke tubes, in particular I'd like to know why Browning changed the threads from the base of the tube out to the muzzle end of the tube. For years Browning fans have touted about how having the threads at the base end was far superior to having them at the muzzle like many competitors do and now Browning has switched camps, weird...
There's a lot of negativity about the DS tubes on the net but very little data to back it up. Browning's website states the patterns are superior to competitors choke tubes but other manufacturers make the same claim so that means very little unless you just like drinking the coolade. I expect the tubes work just fine but probably not any better than the main competitor's tubes.

All in all I think it will be a fine gun like most other Citori's and if you like the ascetics then that great but it's not for me.
 
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I'll start by saying that ascetic's are important to me, if the look of the gun isn't pleasing to my eye then I won't be happy with it and I'm not happy at all with the ascetics of this gun. The styling of the receiver is ugly in my opinion and matt finishes are cheap looking. They are easier and less expensive to make than deep blue finishes because the high level of polishing isn't required like it is for bluing but the savings are not passed on the the consumer. The "8" logo looks terrible and I've never liked the stag head emblem that Browning puts on everything they make.

I'm curious about the Invector DS choke tubes, in particular I'd like to know why Browning changed the threads from the base of the tube out to the muzzle end of the tube. For years Browning fans have touted about how having the threads at the base end was far superior to having them at the muzzle like many competitors do and now Browning has switched camps, weird...
There's a lot of negativity about the DS tubes on the net but very little data to back it up. Browning's website states the patterns are superior to competitors choke tubes but other manufacturers make the same claim so that means very little unless you just like drinking the coolade. I expect the tubes work just fine but probably not any better than the main competitor's tubes.

All in all I think it will be a fine gun like most other Citori's and if you like the ascetics then that great but it's not for me.
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Having used the DS choke tubes in a couple of Citori shotguns, I personally didn't like them. The patterns were nothing special, and they seemed more open than I expected. I replaced mine with choke tubes from Briley, and the patterns seemed more uniform, and tighter for the same specification.
 
The thing about choke tubes is that the specifications mean very little. You know what your talking about Stubblejumper but I hear guys complain about how their choke tubes don't measure what they think they should so they go out and buy aftermarket tubes because they measure what the guy thinks they should but again it all means very little. Measurements, specifications and points of constriction are nice for naming the choke, Mod, IC, etc but the real constriction or choke designation is what it will put on the pattern board regardless of what is stamped on the choke tube.
 
No more ported barrels! Just bought a CXT though. Maybe one day when my shooting improves enough to justify a higher $ gun, I'll look into the 825 trap max. But the Citori CX-line (I also own a crossover target) seems to fit me well out of the box.
 
I just want to point out you guys are mostly talking about the UK version of the 825. And this is also what Johnny is reviewing. The complaints about the “8” on them does not matter to us as the NA version does not have that.

Additionally the engraving and aesthetics are different on the NA versions. It’s something to be mindful of when looking at UK reviews and thinking that is what you are getting.
 
Quite a diff in what the U/K gets and what we N/A get.
Something about the 725, never drew me in to the folds...cant ever see me ever owning the 825 either.

Besides...I like my 525 in 28 ga and my 625 in 12 and my latest acquisition ..Fabarm N2Elos in 12 ga...wayyyyy tooo much.
 
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