My first time

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RussellDyck

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So this past Sunday I had the chance to try out my new sirius one step thrower.:dancingbanana:
Holy hanna what fun!!
Then just before one O clock people started showing up at the shot gun range for an afternoon of skeet and trap and was invited to try a few rounds of skeet with the guys. At first I had declined, since I had never seen this in person before, so I could just sit back and watch and observe to see how things are done. Well after a hour of watching I was invited again and this time accepted:dancingbanana:
Holy hannaagain what fun!!:dancingbanana: and harder than trying to hit clays moving from a self opperated thrower! There were two fellas that were right there giving me pointers, sorry guys I can't remember your names but if your a member here and your reading this thaanks for all the help! I think I only got 3 hits out of 25, but I really don't care all that much, I just had a heck of alot of fun on Sunday and I am really looking forward to getting out there soon and getting in more practice. One thing that I did notice with the Mavric 88 that I was using is that once the bbl started getting really warm the rib on top of the barrell would start curving to the left and up, looks to me like a chance to up grade shotguns and to keep the 88 for the truck and camping.
 
Good for you!
It can be really addicting, for sure.
You may want to look around for an older Wingmaster with a vent rib, that is a great gun for a begining trap shooter.
A few of us older fellas sometimes shoot them regularly!
Cat
 
catnthehatt said:
Good for you!
It can be really addicting, for sure.
You may want to look around for an older Wingmaster with a vent rib, that is a great gun for a begining trap shooter.
A few of us older fellas sometimes shoot them regularly!
Cat
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I've got an 870TB trap for sale in the EE. Its an excellent trap gun with beautiful wood.
 
Yeah, when I bought the mavric 88 I had only purchased it for a camping/truck gun, two years ago I never once even suspected that I would be using it for trap/skeet.
I am thinking that for my next shotgun I would like to get something in a o/u, I've had my eye on a CZ Woodcock
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for sometime and from what I have heard they are a good choice for some one that doesn't want to break the bank wide open, that and the price that I was qouted was less than what is recomended on the CZ site. I was handling one at lunch the other day and the fit up felt good and when I was mounting the gun I was way more consistant than with the 88, waaaaaaay more consistant.
I find that one of the bigest problems with buying guns that fit good is that I am just to big, 6'4", with arms, legs, and neck to long for the body
 
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IMO - you need to spend serious money to get a reliable O/U for clay shooting. Browning Citori would be entry level and are very popular. You'd be much better off paying a little more for a quality used O/U.

And don't buy a field gun. They are not stocked properly and are too light for high volume shooting. They will literally recoil the daylights out of you.

In fact, keep showing up and talk to the experienced shooters at your range. You'll get a wide variety of opinions but you might also get to try a wide variety of shotguns.
 
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The clay bug bites some harder than others. I have been shootimg relatively small amounts of clays for years with a number of different sporting or hunting models. Several do work well enough for the 2 or 3 rounds a week shooter.
I have used a Cooey single shot, a Weatherby O/U and a new Fausti 20 ga O/U amoung other guns. My main pupose for shooting trap is to sharpen up my shooting for hunting so using the same gun seems the way to fly for me.
 
I use a 870 my dad has the CZ o/u and it is a very nice gun to shoot if I had the cash I would buy one MY 870 is a great gun to shoot for the price
 
I use my Benelli SBE II (Max4 Camo Pattern) for both sporting clays, skeet, and trap, no it's certainly not the ideal gun to use for these sports but it's what I hunt with and as the previous poster mentioned I also shoot these sports to keep sharp for hunting season...plus they are a heck of a lot of fun.

Though there is a Silver Pigeon or Citori in my future as well cause the clay bug is biting pretty hard for me too.
 
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I use my Benelli SBE II (Max4 Camo Pattern) for both sporting clays, skeet, and trap, no it's certainly not the ideal gun to use for these sports but it's what I hunt with and as the previous poster mentioned I also shoot these sports to keep sharp for hunting season...plus they are a heck of a lot of fun.

Though there is a Silver Pigeon or Citori in my future as well cause the clay bug is biting pretty hard for me too.
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How do you find the SBEII with light loads? I've been tossing around the idea of getting a Benelli M2 vrs Benelli SBEII. I shoot geese on occasion, so thought the 3.5 mags might be welcome (not that I have needed them much before), but hear the SBEII has some problems cycling the lighter target loads.
 
I haven't tried the SBEII with anything lighter than 1 ounce loads and it cycled them without any issues whatsoever...though I did put 4 or 5 boxes of hunting loads through it first (as suggested by Benelli) when I first bought it to work the action in.

Haven't had any issues whatsoever this thing will eat shells all day long, next time I'm out if I can get my hands on some lighter (7/8 ounce) loads I'll give them a try and see how it goes.
 
It sounds like you don't have too many issues with the SBEII. I hear that the action reduces recoil quite a bit, so light loads for sporting clays may not be required... thanks for the feedback.
 
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