Over Under Advice

[Guest jcramin]

Im looking for some advice on a cheap Over Under shotgun for Skeet and Trap for me my wife and my son.

This is just a started gun to see how interested we are in trap and skeet. If non of us like it, it may just end up in the safe. So, im looking for CHEAP right now.

ALSO Id like advice on some nicer ones in case we do like it and want to upgrade and my son will be going to high school next year and the school has a trap team that he may join if he decides he likes it.

Thanks,

J

[DavidD]

A Stoeger Condor can be found for around $300. I have personally shot one several times and they are really nice for the money. My O/U is a Beretta White Wing (pretty much the bottom of the Beretta line) so by no means am I shooting the cream of the crop but there is a noticeable difference in feel (balance) as well as fit and finish but I'm not sure there's a $1,000 worth of difference to be quite honest. My "Sporting Clays" gun is a Benelli Super Sport (Semi Auto) and it is truly the bomb! Accurate (30" barrel), Light, points great and I can shoot 150+ rounds of 12 ga. without breaking the shoulder.

PS- Watch out, clays are DAMNED ADDICTING.

[Guest Tom@GunDepot]

Remington SPR 310's if you want a Inexpensive gun but still a good gun for the $$$ we sell a ton of them 399.00+T/T

For nice O/U Winchester Platinum Field is a really nice gun, but so are CZ's and Ruger Red labels. It's really what fits you best.

[Garufa]

You really don't need an O/U if you're just getting started. Why not try out a pump to see if you're into it and then progress from there?

[R1100R]

Remington SPR 310's if you want a Inexpensive gun but still a good gun for the $$$ we sell a ton of them 399.00+T/T

I own one and paid 499.00 for it when they first came out with all the chokes included. I love mine. It shoots a well as my Citori and I don't have to worry about abuse while hunting with it.

[Warbird]

You can buy a decent new or used semi-auto Beretta for not too much money. Any good O/U for sporting is pretty expensive. You can buy an inexpensive hunting model O/U, but you wont be getting much. O/U are just expensive to make and sell. I would also recommend a decent Remington 1100 with chokes. You don't want fixed barrels. Semi autos have the least kick. What some think is a good gun because they hunted with it have never shot it for a hundred times and then made a decision. These are two different things entirely.

Do not buy a Ruger Red Label for sporting clays of any kind especially if you mean for the wife and son to shoot it. They have a rep for being one of the worst kicking guns of any O/U made in the world.

A pump is a very poor choice for a clays gun. Some very good and fast shooters can use them. Most can't. It is a lousy choice for a novice trying to learn. If you get a decent semi-auto you can aways sell it easy enough. I will warn you unless your wife and son are about the same size you may have one who can shoot it well and one who can't. Shooting clays of any kind depends on a shotgun that fits. Otherwise learning will be frustrating and often people give up too soon just because they cant get it all because of an ill fitting gun.

[DavidD]

You can buy a decent new or used semi-auto Beretta for not too much money. Any good O/U for sporting is pretty expensive. You can buy an inexpensive hunting model O/U, but you wont be getting much. O/U are just expensive to make and sell. I would also recommend a decent Remington 1100 with chokes. You don't want fixed barrels. Semi autos have the least kick. What some think is a good gun because they hunted with it have never shot it for a hundred times and then made a decision. These are two different things entirely.

Do not buy a Ruger Red Label for sporting clays of any kind especially if you mean for the wife and son to shoot it. They have a rep for being one of the worst kicking guns of any O/U made in the world.

A pump is a very poor choice for a clays gun. Some very good and fast shooters can use them. Most can't. It is a lousy choice for a novice trying to learn. If you get a decent semi-auto you can aways sell it easy enough. I will warn you unless your wife and son are about the same size you may have one who can shoot it well and one who can't. Shooting clays of any kind depends on a shotgun that fits. Otherwise learning will be frustrating and often people give up too soon just because they cant get it all because of an ill fitting gun.

Now that's good advice , especially about the Semi-auto and most especially about the size of gun that fits.

[Guest Jcochran88]

What about a mossberg? Not sure I see them in my local shop on the used rack all the time. Seems to me like the stoeger condor.

[Guest jcramin]

My dad has an older Winchester model 1400 12 guage, but I do not know what kind of choke it has, but I do know he used it for duck hunting mostly.

Would than work as a starter gun ?

J