Thinking of getting into Skeet Shooting - best entry lvel 12 ga o/u

[struff55]

Junk.

X2 on the junk .

 

[bdft]

While I agree that a used "B" gun is a great place to start, at a 1K budget, most will be very well used. Don't pass up a clean Remington 1100 with a 26" fixed skeet barrel or 28" Remchoke barrel if you see one. They're great guns that are easy to shoot and find parts for if they break (I have had/have several and I only ever had a 28 Gauge 1100 give me any type of grief).

This right here. If you are like any of the Skeet and Trap shooters I have met you will want another gun soon enough. You will be able to get your money out of a used Browning or Beretta or the 1100. Either one of those guns will outlast a brand new Turkish gun and when they break you can get parts. I broke a hammer in my Perazzi this spring and I had one coming the next day. It took 10 minutes to replace it. Try that with a Canuck or a Churchill.

 

[marshall]

I had a old Winchester 101 sheet for years, and I shot a lot of magpies and pigions with it as well.
These days that gun should sell about 700.oo , even less, the barrels are too thin to put choke tubes in them

 

[stubblejumper]

What is the collective opinion on sub 1000 guns such as Mossberg Silver Reserve, Canuck, Akkar (Churchill)

The Silver Reserves had firing pin issues, and I have seen them double first hand. A fellow showed up to shoot skeet with an Akkar, and it was so stiff, he used his knee to break it open each time.