Cast on or neutral cast for left handed OU shotguns

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*disclaimer* I'm forced to shoot left handed, eventhough I'm right hand dominant (mostly blind in my right eye), so learning to shoot right handed isn't an option.

I am looking for a little input. I've shot a left handed Benelli SBE2 for a decade now and love it, but the more pheasant hunting I do, the more I was something lighter and probably over/under. The SBE2 allows me to set cast-on and I am able to shoot it pretty well. I've shot a few neutral cast over-unders and I shoot them alright, but not exceptionally. I've tried a couple cast-off over-unders and they leave be beaten and bruised after I miss the target.

So for the over-under guys with more experience than me, what should I start looking for? I understand many browning are neutral cast (although some can be cast-on or cast-off), most berettas are cast specific, then everything else older or used is a toss up and has to be checked.

I'm not too caught up on price currently, as I know many decent field over-unders are running in the $3,500ish range now, but I'm not looking to spend big bucks on something like a perazzi, rizzini, purdey, or higher-end of the available over-unders.

Thanks for the input!
 
The purpose of cast is to get your eye positioned behind the rib, so ideally guns should have some cast. Neutral cast is largely a strategy to get most guns to fit most people kind of ok.

Cast is one of the most important dimensions in getting a gun to fit, the next being drop at comb and heel, lastly length of pull. Length is the easiest to adapt to, but the relationship between length to the centre, heel, and toe is important because that's what sets what the Americans would call 'pitch'.
 
The 828u is a disaster as far as a shotgun many inherent problems
Beretta browning and ceasar all make left hand versions any one will be fine quality wise
I have a 12 and 20 ga ceasar gurruni very nice guns
Browning is not neutral cast
 
Have to agree With Struff,Had an early 828 came apart in my hands ,The forearm design is poor (mine shattered) with that adjustment screws and it could not take the pounding of heavy duck and pheasant loads started having issues with closing. And Browning makes left handed O/U
 
In my experience, Brownings tend to be neutral cast. A Browning rep told me they “all leave the factory neutral.”

Any “left-handed” Brownings I have seen simply have left-handed palm swells.

The ones with multiple trigger blades didn’t even have one canted to the left.
 
reddog said:
Have to agree With Struff,Had an early 828 came apart in my hands ,The forearm design is poor (mine shattered) with that adjustment screws and it could not take the pounding of heavy duck and pheasant loads started having issues with closing. And Browning makes left handed O/U
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Interesting. I have friends with both current production and first production 828U, but neither of which have a ton of rounds down them, but so far they haven't had issues. It would be a real shame to drop 4k on one and have it fail in the field, when a beretta 686 runs about $3,500 and is tried and tried!
 
There are shim kits available for modern shotguns with the through but stock that allow adjusting for cast and drop so if you find a gun that is neutral, you should ebba able to shim it to cast-on as well as adjust the drop.
 
gobigorgohome said:
Interesting. I have friends with both current production and first production 828U, but neither of which have a ton of rounds down them, but so far they haven't had issues. It would be a real shame to drop 4k on one and have it fail in the field, when a beretta 686 runs about $3,500 and is tried and tried!
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I was truly disappointed as I was a Benelli fan.The gun pointed really well but a diet of 3" started to shake it up. There are 2 set screws in the forearm and one came loose allowing it to move .That was enough for it to break apart. The gent that fixed it for me was a stock builder and said the design was definitely to blame. The final coup de gras was after that hunting in a blind and could not get it to close properly,\ ducks won that one .had it fixed and off to the EE .Perhaps if you stayed with 2.75 and didn't shoot a bunch all would be good.It was an early model as well.
 
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