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My sporting clays club had a few Zoli demos available for trial last Sunday. My buddy and I tried them out and liked them. They are less expensive than P and K guns but certainly more than say Browning 725's.
I'm wondering what other shooters have experienced with them---particularly how they stand up over time--- we didn't ask about warrantee or repair service. Also wonder about re sale value.
 
I think they're a good quality gun and several top sporting clay's shooters in the US are using them but even though they're less money than the P and K guns, they're not holding the resale value as well and I think it's mostly because they're not as popular. Some day they may hold they're value better but for now you'd better plan on shooting it for a few years.
 
Thanks for your responses. Thought more people would reply but guess there are not a lot of Zoli guns being used. They certainly look and shoot well. I understand that two guns were sold during the demo--- a good sign for sure.
 
Falconflyer said:
Yes, I saw it and it's been there for a while.

My point was that for every Zoli you see for sale you'll see a whole barrel full of B, P or K guns.
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You are correct. They are in a tough price range.

If I was in the market for a Zoli, the one in the exchange would not be there much longer.
 
Some searching on the net tells me that Zolis aren't overbored. I find that surprising, as I think most modern target guns are overbored--- Brownings certainly are.
 
Cow Town Bill said:
Some searching on the net tells me that Zolis aren't overbored. I find that surprising, as I think most modern target guns are overbored--- Brownings certainly are.
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I found the same info and it surprised me to find that out as I think it's been proven that long forcing cones and over bored barrels give better patterns and reduce recoil somewhat. Having said that, one zoli that I looked at had the barrel diameter's stamped 18.5 and the other 18.6, I don't like the diameters being different as it messes up the constrictions for a given choke. In other words a given choke will give a different constriction for each barrel. I would expect a gun in this price range to have better matched barrels since guns costing one third to half this much generally do.
 
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Falconflyer said:
I found the same info and it surprised me to find that out as I think it's been proven that long forcing cones and over bored barrels give better patterns and reduce recoil somewhat. Having said that, one zoli that I looked at had the barrel diameter's stamped 18.5 and the other 18.6, I don't like the diameters being different as it messes up the constrictions for a given choke. In other words a given choke will give a different constriction for each barrel. I would expect a gun in this price range to have better matched barrels since guns costing one third to half this much generally do.
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18.5 and 18.6 are not exactly tight as far as bore goes.
 
Falconflyer said:
Are you saying that Beretta, Kreighoff and Perazzi aren't European? Admittedly their guns aren't generally AS overbore as some north american guns but they have all been make target guns with over bore barrels for several years now.
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For many years Perazzi did not over bore barrels---apparently the Italian proof house did not recognize over boring---that has changed as a friend ordered a Perazzi a couple years ago and he got it over bored.
Presumably, Beretta have followed suit.
I'm quite sure Krieghoff over bore as well, at least for current guns.
A friend has a Blaser and it is over bored.
Bill
 
Beretta has had over bore barrels since the 682 Gold E and Dt-10 came out with the Optima Bore barrels almost 20 years ago, they're 18.6 or .733 inches. Perazzi was offering 18.8 barrels (on order) 7 years ago but stopped because they were having trouble getting fiber wads to seal, 18.6 seems to be where they have settled. I don't know when Kreighoff started over boring the barrels but currently they bore to approximately 18.6 and have for some time.
 
I finally made the decision and bought a Zoli ---one that was listed on the exchange.
Tried it out yesterday on sporting clays and it works extremely well. Unfortunately very strong winds had
the targets all over the map and made for a trying day.
One thing that really got my attention was the reduced felt recoil--- very manageable.
Bill
 
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