I shot in a competition for a fund raiser for our local high school’s sporting clays team recently. One of the guys in our group had a very expensive/ornate British side by side.
He wasn’t hitting a darned thing while the rest of us were knocking down probably about 80%-90% at each station. It was pretty clear that he wasn’t fitted for the gun, and was probably a well to do parent who thought they would go out, buy a nice shotgun and show up at the range and knock clays down all day. After all, how hard can it be? Collectively I think we had a Mossburg 500, a Remington 870, and my Lanber. For those not familiar with shotguns, none of these are shotguns that would cost more than maybe $400-$500 new, except for my Lanber, which is more like $1200 if you could buy a new one (they’re no longer in business in the US.) This guy’s shotgun, which appeared to be brand new, was no doubt in the several thousand dollar range, if not more. By the fourth or fifth stand he was getting pretty frustrated, so we started letting him try shooting with our shotguns on a rotating basis. He gravitated to the Mossburg, an excellent shotgun, and by the end of the round was hitting easily seven out of ten. Afterwards we got him set up with Roger, our coach, to get fitted to a gun. I suspect his fancy shotgun will get sold or go in a cabinet somewhere.... -D > On Aug 30, 2019, at 12:33 PM, Greg Fiorentino via Mercedes > <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > > A long time back I was hitting the trap range pretty regular with my > plain-Jane field grade Rem 870. I was standing next to a guy with a really > nice Browning auto. I was hitting 22 or so out of 25 (pretty good for me, not > much of a shotgunner), him not so much. At one point he comments ironically > "That's a nice shotgun you have there!" > > Greg > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mercedes [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com] On Behalf Of G Mann via > Mercedes > Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 3:54 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Cc: G Mann > Subject: Re: [MBZ] OT: Oh the temptation > > If it fits when you shoulder it, for that price, buy it. The brand snobs > will always be around, for what they paid for the > "brand gun" you can buy many cases of ammo and practice to out shoot them. > What a joy that would be. > > On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 1:30 PM Dan Penoff via Mercedes < > mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > >> Agree with Randy - do it. >> >> I considered the Stoegers when I was looking for my first sporting clays >> shotgun. Of course the brand snobs trash talk them, but for the money they >> are considered to be pretty good shotguns for entry into the sport. >> >> -D >> >>> On Aug 29, 2019, at 4:12 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes < >> mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >>> >>> Cabellas/Bass Pro have the Stoeger Condor over/under shotgun on sale for >> $299 after a $50 rebate. >> https://www.cabelas.com/product/Stoeger-Condor-Field-Over-Under-Shotguns/1401856.uts >>> I've been thinking about getting an O/U for duck hunting. A pump or >> semi-auto is only allowed 3 shots anyway and an O/U would be nice for >> trap/skeet/sporting clays... >>> The reviews are really positive, they call it the "best O/U under $500". >> Dad says a lot of people are using them at the trap range he goes to. >>> -Curt >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
