Tristar TT-15 CTA for skeet & Sport Clays?????

[flexible]

Hi everyone, flexible here. Advising a friend who is just starting to shoot clays. He's looking for an affordable O/U for all the clay sports and he's looking at the Tristar TT15 CTA.
Opinion please, how's the quality and can it be used in skeet and sport clays?
thanks

 

[MEHavey]

Tristar TT15 CTA

While I've generally been impressed w/ TriStar as a Best Buy... That's a rather expensive "starter" gun especially for clays/skeet

An NRA Shooting Sports Journal | Review: TriStar TT-15 Combo Trap Deluxe

The TriStar TT-15 Deluxe Trap Combo is an affordable trap gun loaded with premium features that are normally found on shotguns costing thousands of dollars more. Tested with Federal’s Gold Medal Grand shotshells, read our eview of the TT-15

www.ssusa.org

Is that in fact the model you're looking at ?

 

[Thomasss]

Hate to say this but one blew up a year ago at a trap club in northern Wisconsin. It was an O/U. Both the shooter and the person standing to his left were injured. It appeared that the breech blew out of the gun throwing metal and wood fragments about. The actual cause was never determined.

 

[ColtPythonElite]

I would rather have a used Browing Citori

 

[jaguarxk120]

Duh, was the shooter using reloads???

Or did he drop a 20 gauge shell down the tube first?

Saying a gun blows up with out the back story is nothing but hearsay!!
It is just like saying a damascus barrel will uncoil like a spring. Since W.W. Greener has done blowup tests.

 

[Thomasss]

Or did he drop a 20 gauge shell down the tube first?

They were shooting 16 yard trap. Both injured people were experience shooters. The blow up occurred on station 2 the other injured person was on station 1 and they had been shooting prior to the accident. I believe they had just changed stations and the shooter on station two was shooting his first shot on that station.
What can't be figured out is why the breech exploded and not a barrel being knuckled or splitting. The shooter went to the hospital with fragments in his arm, wrist, and face. The person next to him, got wood fragments in his right arm.
Personally I am not of big fan of Tristar. I've heard of a lot malfunctions associated with their shotguns and they are not alone in the area. Many guns won't hold up to the repeated firings in target sports. I've been shooting trap since the 1960s and only have come across 3 shotgun type "destructions". The other two were a knuckled barrel and a split barrel. I don't have the slightest idea what would cause a receiver(breech area) to disintegrate on a shotgun. Tristar is a fine hunting and target gun for the occasional shooter but it wouldn't be the first gun I would recommend for a serious trap shooter..

 

[jaguarxk120]

A double charge of fast burning powder!

 

[PapaG]

On another forum, one concentrating on trap shooting and shotguns, you can find whole threads dedicated to the tri star and other imports. Quite a lot of variability in the early days on quality and the butt of many jokes. I have only seen one in the "flesh" and I was quite impressed with all the features. Doesn't seem likely that you can get a truly high quality shotgun that comes as a combo with adj comb and adj ribs plus all the other bells and whistles.
I'd like to try shooting one.
About equal to a Browning 725 combo in features for 1/3 the price. Don't know how they can do it and have long term performance.

 

[jaguarxk120]

The March/April issue of Shooting Sportsman has a review
of the Tri Star O/U.