Best over/under shotgun

[Jarhead FLSTI]

I seriously need to pattern both by Tristar and my FN SC1. I actually shoot trap better with the Tristar and shoot wobble about the same with both. The FN really shines for sporting clays and 5-stand. It is a longer/heavier gun and swings so much better. I've never tried skeet but want to give it a go before the end of the year.

One thing for the OP to consider with his new Tristar... I bought Carlson extended chokes for mine (Beretta/Benelli thread pattern) and saw a significant improvement on trap scores. Bass Pro had them on sale for around $75 for a set of 3 (waterfowl).

 

[Ack Ack]

There's a Winchester 101 on the CMP board for $950 (shipped in a CMP case). It has 30" barrels (which are popular these days). Only drawback I see is that it's choked full/full.

http://forums.thecmp.org/showthread.php?t=172646

 

[Bolts Rock]

You are right, I definitely can't shoot trap. Too monotenous for me, I don't have the brain capacity to shoot at the same easy targets over and over.

All that as side, trap is more mental like skeet. Its more convenient and cost effective, besides PG county if you aren't close to the PA state line or Eastern shore its a haul to get to a 50/100 target Sporting clay course for amateur hour. Not sure what VA or WVA has for Sporting clays

You need to shoot trap with a certain MDS crew, quite the challenge when you're laughing at the bird calls...just ask teratos.

 

[PapiBarcelona]

That sounds like fun. I got really turned off from trap, at least locally to me since I shoot mostly in the winter, things are slow and clubs would only have 1 trap field open and 5 squads signed up. Takes over an hour to get to shoot.

With sporting clays, you show up when they're open and you can basically run the course how you feel like it

 

[Pinecone]

The other thing about sub 1K guns besides durability. is that some aren't regulated very well either...

Yeap, it costs money to make two barrels shoot to the same POA.

The thing is, there are some nice O/U for a bit more money. Especially if you go used.

The old Winchester 101 was a superb shotgun. After Wincheser stopped making them, CVC was making a copy. And they were not cheap. Not sure how Winchester is making them so cheap, and if the are the same basic gun as the old ones. If so, I will need to pick one up.

 

[Maher1510]

I guess I should have said what I would use it for. It would be mainly for dove rabbit hunting. Probably get shot 100 times a year on average. Don't shoot shotguns for practice or fun near as much as rifle. And thanks for the heads up with the Carlson chokes Jarhead. In my list to get this weekend.

 

[sxs]

Yeap, it costs money to make two barrels shoot to the same POA.

The thing is, there are some nice O/U for a bit more money. Especially if you go used.

The old Winchester 101 was a superb shotgun. After Wincheser stopped making them, CVC was making a copy. And they were not cheap. Not sure how Winchester is making them so cheap, and if the are the same basic gun as the old ones. If so, I will need to pick one up.

Been wondering that as well. I had a friend...an old man I was close with some years back who had a Win 101 Pigeon Grade that I shot very well. Everyone I knew back then liked and respected the Win 101...but they were around 1k 20 years back. It does make one wonder how good these newer 101s are. Just saw an ad for one at $1049. Supposed to be from FN in Herstal Belgium.

 

[Pinecone]

Maybe used $1K 20 years ago. They stopped making them in the late 80s or so. We started in the early 90s, and the CVC guns were coming out then.

But looking at the new ones, they use Invector Plus choke tubes, which mean all my Browning choke tubes work.

Hmmm, may have to pick one of these up.

FN made, same dimensions as the original, uses the choke tubes I already have.

Oops, Sporting model is $2379 MSRP.

But field grade is $1899 MSRP, so about $850 off the MSRP at $1049. So maybe about $1500 for Sporting???????????

 

[PJDiesel]

INV Plus is gone, they're "DS" now.

 

[Pinecone]

Hmm, from their site yesterday.

Then I have to find an older one.

 

[Redcobra]

You are right, I definitely can't shoot trap. Too monotenous for me, I don't have the brain capacity to shoot at the same easy targets over and over.

Especially when you keep missing

 

[Redcobra]

That sounds like fun. I got really turned off from trap, at least locally to me since I shoot mostly in the winter, things are slow and clubs would only have 1 trap field open and 5 squads signed up. Takes over an hour to get to shoot.

Sounds like the AGC. That's why I quit going there. Come to LRSTC. If you wait 10 minutes, that's a lot.

 

[El_flasko]

Come to LRSTC. If you wait 10 minutes, that's a lot.

I still need to get over there and try that place out. I stopped by there last year in the way home from work but got hooked on Oxford shortly there after.

 

[Rockzilla]

To put your budget into perspective. .....I paid $ 1195 for my Browning Citori Special Sporting Clays...........in 1990 !!!!!

For a grand your better off looking at a nice semi-auto.

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Picked up a Broadway and Citori both Belgium made, a long while
back, from Ralph Browns Trading post in Jefferson, also a T-bolt 22

A semi-auto in around 1K maybe...


-Rock

 

[PapiBarcelona]

Been wanting to do Loch Raven 5 stand for a long time

 

[tigmaned]

for a new over/under in the $1000 +or- price range, I wonder which would be better choice?
A new model Winchester 101 Field. or a Franchi Instinct L. Winchester made by FNH in Belgium. Franchi made in Italy.

http://www.winchesterguns.com/products/catalog/detail.asp?family=020C&mid=513046


http://www.franchiusa.com/instinct-l-over-and-under-shotgun

 

[PJDiesel]

Been wanting to do Loch Raven 5 stand for a long time

Me too. The guy who sets it is a regular on Tuesday's at Oxford. They say it's a good set up.

 

[PJDiesel]

for a new over/under in the $1000 +or- price range, I wonder which would be better choice?
A new model Winchester 101 Field. or a Franchi Instinct L. Winchester made by FNH in Belgium. Franchi made in Italy.

http://www.winchesterguns.com/products/catalog/detail.asp?family=020C&mid=513046


http://www.franchiusa.com/instinct-l-over-and-under-shotgun

Out of those two I like the Franchi

 

[sxs]

Maybe used $1K 20 years ago. They stopped making them in the late 80s or so. We started in the early 90s, and the CVC guns were coming out then.

But looking at the new ones, they use Invector Plus choke tubes, which mean all my Browning choke tubes work.

Hmmm, may have to pick one of these up.

FN made, same dimensions as the original, uses the choke tubes I already have.

Oops, Sporting model is $2379 MSRP.

But field grade is $1899 MSRP, so about $850 off the MSRP at $1049. So maybe about $1500 for Sporting???????????

Well, only the field grade was in the sales ad at BP. Maybe check out the store to see if they have a clays model in stock. If I was inclined to get one, it would be the field. I don't like floating the clay.

 

[Redcobra]

Been wanting to do Loch Raven 5 stand for a long time

Thursdays and Saturdays for 5-stand.
All Clays tournament coming up in October.
1 rd Wobble, 2 rds Trap, 2 rds Skeet, 1 rd 5-stand. Shoot off is simo pairs at 5-stand.
http://www.lochravenskeettrap.com/cgi-bin/dada/mail.cgi/archive/news/20150826082241/