Let's See Those Clay Target Guns

[the spank]

My newest target smasher 1955 model 12 with custom fitted precision stock and high rib.Built by BH engineering

Thats the first model 12 I've seen with a PFS stock. Is it a custom built unit or does PFS offer a model 12 unit?

 

[reddog]

Thats the first model 12 I've seen with a PFS stock. Is it a custom built unit or does PFS offer a model 12 unit?

Its a custom mod. He has built 2 with the older PFS model with the heavier action rod .Started out as a naked lady field gun.

 

[Cow Town Bill]

OK Bill, not fair, you're showing off my gun! Upside down too. Here is what it looks like right side up. And a couple of pictures of a T Mortimer 16 gauge that I had bone charcoal case coloured by Turnbull in the US about 15-16 years ago. The third gun shown is a Husqvarna Model 300 sidelock from 1912 with original case colours, protected by varnish but still faded.

Thanks for showing some really good examples of case colouring.

 

[Cow Town Bill]

This is a Perazzi MX8 SC3 grade from 1985. I had Briley choke tubes installed and have a spare stock. I can shoot all the clay target games with one gun.
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[brybenn]

How do you access or operate the tang safety on the 835?

I have a 535 ats with an ati m4 stock. Its easy to rotate the hand and thumb flick the safety

 

[brybenn]

Not sure why that went sideways. I do shoot clays with this gun and sometimes take the scope off to do it lol.
Hard to see but thats a coyote laying out in the field. He found out a .650 choke packs alot of #6 pellets in tight

 

[1963beretta]

I have a 535 ats with an ati m4 stock. Its easy to rotate the hand and thumb flick the safety

Your safety doesn't look as buried in there as the previous posted photo. I have a pistol grip stock for my 935 and as you mentioned, its not too difficult.

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

How do you access or operate the tang safety on the 835?

Safety? I don't need no stinkin' safety on a pump gun fer clay busting.

 

[the spank]

17864611[/URL]]This is a Perazzi MX8 SC3 grade from 1985. I had Briley choke tubes installed and have a spare stock. I can shoot all the clay target games with one gun.
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Nice!!

 

[the spank]

I picked up this XT two weeks ago. After all the fitting of the new stock to the MX8, RAD install, trying different pitch adjustments etc, etc I just could not get the MX8 to stop thumping my cheekbone so down the road it went. This one like every other Browning I've owned fits me to a tee and feels like a bb gun's recoil. Back to the Brownings it is.....well for my doubles game. Still shooting the TMS for singles and caps.

 

[the spank]

17841035[/URL]]This is a Perazzi MX3 game gun weighing a tad over 7 lbs. Light weight Perazzi game guns are fairly hard to find but when you find one they are a joy in the field albeit on the light side for clay targets. It has 28" barrels with fixed chokes of Mod and IMod. I love the engraving and superb wood. A number of years ago a friend convinced me to sell it to him. Last year he relented and sold it back to me. Lucky me.
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A fellow I know who sells new Perazzi(you likely know who I am referring to) told me the other day he took an absolutely gorgeous MX3 Trap SCO Grade on trade. I am anxious to see it!

 

[Falconflyer]

Spank. I shot an XT Trap for 2 or 3 years and shot it as well as any trap gun I've owned. The only reason I moved away from it was that it shot quite high as do a lot of trap guns and it was messing me up when shooting a trap style target on the sporting clays range with a flat shooting sporting clays gun. I'd find myself floating the target the way I would on the trap range and shoot under the sporting clays target. I'm shooting trap with flatter shooting guns these days to avoid that issue. That XT is a great gun thought!

 

[the spank]

18148152[/URL]]Spank. I shot an XT Trap for 2 or 3 years and shot it as well as any trap gun I've owned. The only reason I moved away from it was that it shot quite high as do a lot of trap guns and it was messing me up when shooting a trap style target on the sporting clays range with a flat shooting sporting clays gun. I'd find myself floating the target the way I would on the trap range and shoot under the sporting clays target. I'm shooting trap with flatter shooting guns these days to avoid that issue. That XT is a great gun thought!

This is my fourth XT! I should have just stuck with the first but what fun would it be not switching guns that work, right?! Lol I've also owned and shot the best scores I ever shot two Citori Plus'. Almost impossible to find one any more this side of the US border. I grabbed this XT as it was the first I've come across for sale in a long time with a parallel adjustable comb and 30" barrels. Easy to find the Monte Carlos with 32" bbls but I prefer the 30". I find the 32" feel bbl heavy and swing like a plank. I shot this one monday night for the first time, never got a chance to put it on paper but it shoots exactly where I'm looking and I like a trap gun that shoots fairly flat as well around 60/40 and this was spot on for me and inkballing targets hard. I bought it to be a dedicated doubles gun and backup gun should my singles/cap gun fail. I shot one round of 25 pair of doubles monday evening with it and broke 45/50. Started on post 4, went 9/10, 9/10 on post 5, 10/10 on post 1, 8/10 on post 2 and finished with 9/10 on post 3.

 

[1963beretta]

Those XT’s are great guns. I should have never sold the one I had. It was just like yours but with 32” barrels. It also had super nice walnut to boot. Really makes me want to kick myself for selling it, but so it goes.
Enjoy your new gun Spank!

 

[the spank]

18148360[/URL]]Those XT’s are great guns. I should have never sold the one I had. It was just like yours but with 32” barrels. It also had super nice walnut to boot. Really makes me want to kick myself for selling it, but so it goes.
Enjoy your new gun Spank!

My first one had really nice wood and 30" bbls, bought it brand new from Le Baron but the Monte Carlo stock was too high for me at the time. I've lost enough weight now it would fit perfectly but it's long gone. I had an XT Gold w/32" bbls, it had gorgeous wood but I just could not swing those 32" bbls for doubles very well. I can get to the second target 5 yards sooner with the 30's and catch it still on the rise or just cresting whereas the 32's I am catching them crested and starting down. It's not the extra length but the extra weight forward off balance feel that seems to be the factor for me. Hard to fathom two inches and a couple ounces can change a gun's characteristics so much that its a plus for some and a minus for others? I guess thats why they make the choices they do!

 

[the spank]

Here is the current line up from last evenings practice. L to R...my Perazzi TMS(34"), XT(30") and my wifes BT-99 Micro(30").