Best over/under shotgun

[Redcobra]

I am thinking about looking around for a quality O/U - probably used and sub $1,500.

I haven't been able to find much in the way of comparison charts rating/comparing the brands and individual models.

IE:
Beretta silver pigeon
Browning Citori xyz
Beretta model xyz
Browning other model xyz
ETC

The reason i'm interested is so if I see a particular quality gun for sale used, I might have a chance at discerning the quality of the deal and/or how much room I may have to negotiate.

Thank you for the help!

Chances are that if a Beretta feels good to you, you won't like Browning.
If the the Browning feels good, the Beretta will not please you.
Both good guns, just different, although the new Browning 725 feels closer to the Beretta Silver Pigeon. That being said, try a Guerini and you'll be hooked.
However, not $1500.

 

[Ranger Tom]

I got to shoot some clays with my step-son's new Browning Cynergy Sporting this weekend. WOW!!! It is a great gun. It is a new production gun that doesn't have that goofy looking stock/recoil pad.

http://www.browning.com/products/catalog/firearms/detail.asp?fid=014B&cid=018&tid=704

I may eventually have to get one as a backup or a second gun when I take friends out.

Whoa there, I shoot a Sporting Model Cynergy with the goofy looking recoil pad. The recoil pad does it's job. The gun is a higher grade model (fancy wood, extra gold) that Browning no longer has available. If the new ones shoot as good as mine you won't go wrong on the purchase.

 

[sxs]

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

Didn't notice this when I first read it. But, FYI, The Broadway is a Superposed...definitely made in Belgium. However, the Citori is a Japanese Miroku made shotgun. Excellent gun (I have one...first year for Invector tubes...previous Citoris were fixed chokes)...just not Belgium made.

 

[Pinecone]

Chances are that if a Beretta feels good to you, you won't like Browning.
If the the Browning feels good, the Beretta will not please you.
Both good guns, just different, although the new Browning 725 feels closer to the Beretta Silver Pigeon. That being said, try a Guerini and you'll be hooked.
However, not $1500.

This ^^^^^^^^^^^

I fit Brownings. A good freind fits Berettas. We do not fit each others shotguns.