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Scott Bear

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I recently bought a Browning Citori made in '76 choked skeet/skeet. Took it for a test run tonight at the range for a trap session. Never shot trap before and haven't shot skeet for a while so hit 16/25. I noticed it rattled when the safety was off but not when the safety was on. Is this normal for a Citori or did I buy a lemon?

Any help would be great.

Thanks,

Scott
 
Skeet chokes sound a bit open for trap to me, even at the 16 yard line, unless you are taking the birds very early. I think most shooters take them around 33-34 yards and are better off with modified or improved modified choke. Don't like the sound of that rattle, just don't know what it is. My old Citori doesn't do it. I do know it would drive me crazy and I'd find out pretty fast. Does the safety work on the gun? Seems a bit early to decide about the gun. Good luck on this one.
 
Likely no worry at all ... you can take a brand new Citori, give it a brisk shake and hear a rattle when the safety is "off". Engage the safety and the rattle will stop.

It's most likely the Inertia Block ... the little gizmo that switches from one barrel firing to the other - on recoil (of the first barrel having been fired). It fits rather loosely.

I consider this "normal" for a Citori ... don't think you got a "lemon".

A 26" or 28" "Skeet" gun is hardly optimum for Trap ... particularly with fixed Skeet chokes. [ Stand on top of the Trap house and your scores will improve. :D ] Skeet chokes are designed to give optimum patterns with No. 9's at 21 yards. Yes you can shoot Trap with a Skeet gun, but it's a "Hit & Miss" proposition unles you are on the birds incredibly fast. Any hits from the back handicap yardages would be more luck than anything.

Now "Off to the Skeet range with you"
 
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