Browning Gold?

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How do you like yours?

Will it cycle everything from light skeet loads and up?

What's a fair price to pay for one in excellent condition?

Will I destroy the wood finish and steel bluing using it on the salt water?
 
Love my 20ga! It will cycle everything, cheapiest of the cheap and 3" magnums...anything goes. Clean the ports and trigger mechanism once a season with Breakfree CLP. Excellent shotgun, very light and well balanced.

They go for over $1000 new, a fair price for one used in great condition would be anywhere from $600 to $850.....

I have no experience with salt water, but I would think that it would be very hard on this gun.
 
Browning Gold is an awesome Gun. Similar in form and function to a Winchester SX3 but I feel the fit/finish and over all feeling of solidness and quality goes to the Browning. Speed Feed is awesome too. Cycled everything I put in it.

Can't imagine salt water being good for it.

I agree with Mount Sweetness on pricing.
 
Browning Gold 20 Gauge

I own the 20 Gauge. I use mine for skeet shooting and uplandf game. The only times it failed to cycle is when I used Winchester Super X ammo in 2 1/2 Drams 7/8 oz. loads. Even then, only a handful of cartridges (5 or 6 out of 250) did not cycle, which is probably atttributable to the cartridges themselves.

I have since switched to Challenger ammo (same load as the Super-X) and it has never failed to cyle the shell.

Cleaning is very easy.
 
I've owned 5 different Gold's at one time or another, and just bought my 6th this week (Gold Upland 20ga). They are IMO, the best semi out there, and its a shame Browning discontinued them (though the new Maxus is basically an upgraded Gold). They can do anything, anywhere. Awesome duck or goose gun, and a great range gun. I shot my first 25 in skeet with a 12g Gold Hunter/26" bbl, shot my first triple (3 ducks in 3 shots from the same group) with a 12g Gold Hunter/28" bbl, and had my best goose season last year with a 12G Gold Stalker. There's also been a 20g Gold Hunter and 12g Gold Fusion in there. Super reliable, great handling, easy to maintain, and FAST shooting. I can't get enough Browning Gold's!
 
While mine isn't a Gold, I have a Win SuperX2, which is the IDENTICAL shotgun with different branding, made in the same factory in Belgum. The parts are interchangeable, as my buddy and I have proved on a few occasions. Anyways, they are among the most reliable shotguns you can get for the money. I've put thousands of rounds through mine without a single hitch, and while mine is cleaned regularly, I know some guys (guys that spend 50+ days a year hunting waterfowl) that clean theirs after the end of the season, and that's it.

If you are going to use it around salt water I'd go for one of the models with a coating on it, and a synthetic stock
 
I have the 3 1/2 model.

I found that after using cheap 2 3/4 shells it will start stove piping the odd one after 90 rounds or so.

If you buy the fedral 2 3/4 no issues.

I had trouble with the duracoat coming off of mine. Being fixed.

I am pleased with the gunb other than the coating issue
 
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