Unboxing my New Fausti Conrad O/U

I hope everything works out well for you. I have been around a lot of different shotguns, I shoot sporting clay every Sunday, and have seen first hand the Turkish guns are substandard to say the least. I will admit I have not seen the gun you bought, so maybe you got a good one. Problems I have seen have been cracked stocks, due to poor metal wood fit up. Failure to fire, due to bad firing pins or bad selector switch. Stuck choke tubes, due to poorly cut threads. I have been involved in manufacturing engineering, all my career. This is all caused by lack of process control, making sure that things don't get out of spec. Speaking ounce with another engineer, that went on a tour of the Turkish plant, that made o/u of a unmentioned brand. He said he was shocked, most of the workers there looked like they were kids. Could not find any skilled gun makers in the bunch. Anyway you get what you pay for.
When money was tight and my mortgage high I saved and saved ,to buy a used B gun. Shot it for seven years without a failure. Sold if just 200$ less than I paid and the guy I sold it to is still shooting it close to 100 k rounds now . B guns hold value.
Good luck with your gun, enjoy trap. Clay targets have been my addiction all my adult life.
 
Kenny said:
I hope everything works out well for you. I have been around a lot of different shotguns, I shoot sporting clay every Sunday, and have seen first hand the Turkish guns are substandard to say the least. I will admit I have not seen the gun you bought, so maybe you got a good one. Problems I have seen have been cracked stocks, due to poor metal wood fit up. Failure to fire, due to bad firing pins or bad selector switch. Stuck choke tubes, due to poorly cut threads. I have been involved in manufacturing engineering, all my career. This is all caused by lack of process control, making sure that things don't get out of spec. Speaking ounce with another engineer, that went on a tour of the Turkish plant, that made o/u of a unmentioned brand. He said he was shocked, most of the workers there looked like they were kids. Could not find any skilled gun makers in the bunch. Anyway you get what you pay for.
When money was tight and my mortgage high I saved and saved ,to buy a used B gun. Shot it for seven years without a failure. Sold if just 200$ less than I paid and the guy I sold it to is still shooting it close to 100 k rounds now . B guns hold value.
Good luck with your gun, enjoy trap. Clay targets have been my addiction all my adult life.
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Nice rant but these guns are not Turkish.
 
not a rant at all,, just some observation ,, like I said I have never seen this gun ,so my bad,, I know that when you give opinions on guns on here some take it like your insulting their sister. Like I said before good luck with your gun.
 
Fausti makes excellent quality shotguns. They are not really well known as most of there offerings start around $5,000 and go up from there. You need to be shopping in that market before you find out about them. The Conrad was there entry level market gun, but still very well made from the ones I have seen.
 
Kenny said:
I hope everything works out well for you. I have been around a lot of different shotguns, I shoot sporting clay every Sunday, and have seen first hand the Turkish guns are substandard to say the least. I will admit I have not seen the gun you bought, so maybe you got a good one. Problems I have seen have been cracked stocks, due to poor metal wood fit up. Failure to fire, due to bad firing pins or bad selector switch. Stuck choke tubes, due to poorly cut threads. I have been involved in manufacturing engineering, all my career. This is all caused by lack of process control, making sure that things don't get out of spec. Speaking ounce with another engineer, that went on a tour of the Turkish plant, that made o/u of a unmentioned brand. He said he was shocked, most of the workers there looked like they were kids. Could not find any skilled gun makers in the bunch. Anyway you get what you pay for.
When money was tight and my mortgage high I saved and saved ,to buy a used B gun. Shot it for seven years without a failure. Sold if just 200$ less than I paid and the guy I sold it to is still shooting it close to 100 k rounds now . B guns hold value.
Good luck with your gun, enjoy trap. Clay targets have been my addiction all my adult life.
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Epic FAIL!!
 
1963beretta said:
Your observation huh...
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Ken is the real deal and I don't doubt has observed multiple failures of entry level guns as described. His gaffe was in thinking the Conrad was from Turkey.
In any case, most field guns weighing around 7 lbs are not built for high volume trap or S.C. shooting - hard on the gun and hard on the shooter. I bought my Citori Skeet SX from Ken when it only had 30 thousand shots fired. Since then he has probably shot twice that through his Guerini.
That's not relevant though with regards to the gun discussed and congratulations on a fine hunting tool.
 
Update- Just put my first 100 rounds trough the gun.

Worked flawlessly, did two rounds of skeet, one double skeet round and a round of Skatch( shooting trap from skeet position). Broke me clays from every stand, had a few doubles and smoked some into black dust...I am hooked
 
fljp2002 said:
Update- Just put my first 100 rounds trough the gun.

Worked flawlessly, did two rounds of skeet, one double skeet round and a round of Skatch( shooting trap from skeet position). Broke me clays from every stand, had a few doubles and smoked some into black dust...I am hooked
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This is fantastic news fljp! Unfortunately my local CT doesn't carry the Fausti line of firearms so I'll be on the hunt for used B guns.
 
Enjoy your new gun, and keep us posted on your experience with it. Hooked after 100 rounds? Better lay in a few more flats of ammo when they are on sale. The addiction tends to be lifelong.
 
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