Which Shotgun for Sporting Clays

Rob!

Rob!

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I posted this on a Facebook Clays forum in response to a "Which Brand" poll. Thought I'd share it here....

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Browning and Beretta have the most extensive dealer network - pretty much anyone who applies - and they have a range of offerings from almost cheap to some pretty high end stuff.

Krieghoff represents the guys who used to own Brownings but thought they could buy 10 birds with an expensive gun.

The Perazzis are the former Krieghoff's who didn't get the message the first time.

Blaser, Zoli and CG are just guys who can't stand to drive a Ford even if it does get you there - so they stepped up a notch...

Remington, Winchester, Mossberg and the rest are just duck guns that double for clays fun. Nothing wrong with that.

The survey predicts it all pretty well.

Perhaps the next survey should be "Favorite Medical Insurance" because - good natured fun or not - I'm about to get a beating. 🤣

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interesting assessment, I always thought the only people who shoot Krieghoffs were those in overpaid professions, or people who got a big inheritance.
you also forgot Kolar, FAIR, Fabarm, Benelli, CZ, Rizzini, Franchi and so on and so forth.

The big time sport shooters, no matter which game it is, shoot Krieghoff, Perazzi, Beretta, and the odd Blaser or Zoli every now and again.

I vote for Browning Field guns, not a fan of their sporting guns. The action will still hold up over time.

and Allstate is pretty alright.
 
At my local club, Browning and Beretta likely make up well over 75% of the shotguns used. I have seen a few Krieghoffs and Perazzis, and some Blaser, Zoli and CG shotguns, and the rest are pretty much a mix of other brands, including some low priced Turkish made guns. The people that use the more expensive guns, just seem to prefer to use higher end shotguns, they don't seem to have the attitude that some people expect. What I am not seeing, is many highly engraved, high grade wood models, even the people using higher priced guns, are generally using the less fancy grade models.
 
Plain wood don’t warp.

Seen lots of forends that won’t go on when people travel from
Low humidity to hi.
 
Browning and Beretta are by far the most prevalent guns at any place I shoot with all the other makes making up the difference but to say that the Krieghoff and Perazzi owners are guys who think they could buy 10 birds with an expensive gun is just plain wrong and unfair. Some of the guys I see that resent people with nice guns are making payments on motorcycles or quads that cost more than those guns! I also shoot occasionally with some guys who have shotguns that cost many times what Krieghoff's and Perazzi's cost and not only are they great and humble guys but they aren't top shooters either, they just like to have fun and enjoy their money and they'd never look down their noses at anybody.
In short, I don't agree with most of your assumptions at all!
 
Never understood the resentment of more expensive guns. Compare the price of a Krieghoff or Perazzi to a new sled, bass boat or ATV plus the trailers to haul them. And over ten years of use that K or P-gun will retain lot more value than a sled, boat or ATV.
 
If there is an attitude related to the type of shotguns being used, it is more jealousy of the people using the higher end shotguns. Of the people using the higher end shotguns, I haven't seen any that honestly believe that the price of the gun determines how many targets they break. Some people spend their money drinking, or smoking, or gambling, or traveling, or on high dollar vehicles, or boats, snowmobiles or other recreation, other prefer to spend more on a shotgun.
 
It's called jealousy, common in children. For many people there is a built in quest for quality, either real or perceived and the confidence and satisfaction of using of using a "better" gun will add to their enjoyment. We have all been burned by goods that did not meet our expectations, some people learn from this and some don't.
 
The best clays gun is the one that fits you, I have seen way too many buy the wrong gun just because it was a high end expensive piece. I quite often shoot the highest scores with a full choke plain barrel hunting gun from the the fifties, Ithaca 37, Winchester 51, or 1897 for example.Its all about FIT. I have several Citori’s but I have more fun with old classics.
 
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