oneounceload
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f it was a "drilling" it didn't have 4 or 5 bbls., drillings only have 3
TRUE! - those are called fierlings and funflings
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f it was a "drilling" it didn't have 4 or 5 bbls., drillings only have 3
I take my walmart 870 to the sporting clays range, and routinely outshoot the guys with the O/U's. I'd love to shoot with a guy that owns one of these guns
Because people will buy them......No other reason I can see.
These kinds of flippant answers always grate on my nerves, both because they are incorrect and because they play upon class envy that I find highly objectionable and immature.Because some people have too much freaking money. Same goes with Blaser rifles. There's your answer.
Exactly so. For folks that shoot a lot, and need the gun to function like clockwork and without exception every single shot, putting a lot of money into a single well-crafted platform makes a lot of sense....Some of the guns such as Perazzi and Kreighoff can take a serious beating. There are some shooters who have over 1,000,000 rounds through their shotgun, and it's still running strong.
So where do you shoot? I read on the Internet about guys who outshoot high end guns with their Walmart 870s. Never see it in real life. Not that I don't believe you I'd just like to see it for myself.I take my walmart 870 to the sporting clays range, and routinely outshoot the guys with the O/U's. I'd love to shoot with a guy that owns one of these guns.
I'm not a competition shooter, I don't enter any organized shoots, I just shoot informally. If that statement sounded boastful, I should clarify, I'm not claiming to be that great of a shooter. (I typically only shoot high-70's to low-80's). I don't make it out to shoot that often, but amongst the company I shoot with when I do, I usually finish near or at the top of a group of half to a dozen shooters, and give them a good natured ribbing about there expensive guns (not the $10k+ guns were talking about here, just $2k-$3k O/U's, and there are some days I don't finish high, and have to take that ribbing, too).oneounceload said:I have NEVER seen ANYONE win a sporting clays shoot with a pump or SxS, unless the shoot was only for those guns - what shoot championships have you won?
Because this is America. I'm damn proud to live in a country where one can buy a $10,000 shotgun if they wish and have a job that allows them to do so
These kinds of flippant answers always grate on my nerves, both because they are incorrect and because they play upon class envy that I find highly objectionable and immature.
Expensive shotguns are simply made of better designed parts that are made of better materials, fitted together better, finished better, and custom fitted to the specific shooter. That level of visual, aesthetic, mechanical, and functional optimization may not be needed for how you use a shotgun (for example, my everyday gun is an 870 or a Nova) but that does not mean that it is irrelevant or unneeded.
Muzzle Loading Skeet Champion
There was an episode of Top Gear where they showed a Range Rover Estate which was a limited edition shooting brake. The truck came with a custom fitted gun case under the back seat and a set of Purdey or H&H drillings & doubles (can't remember which). Jeremy Clarkson said the guns were worth more than the truck- lots more than the truck.
Do they go BANG and spit lead shot out the barrels? Yes. Just like a Hyundai Sonata and a Mercedes Maybach both get you to Burger King.
I just went to the range last night and shot 3 rounds on the trap range with my $700 Rem 870 Wingmaster. BTW, I only use that gun for clays. And I shoot skeet, wobble, and sporting clays as well. I am better at skeet than trap believe it or not.
Trap last night:
1st round hit 15
2nd round hit 10
3rd round hit 13
I just started this past November and probably have shot no more than 15 rounds on trap (Ever in my life) So I am just a noob. I feel that is pretty good. Not stellar, but as good as some of them with O/U's. I was shooting with a kid on the skeet and wobble range 2 weeks ago that uses a Mossberg 500 pump and he was easily hitting high teens to low 20's every round...