Cynergy or Citori for sporting clays

[mlorr]

I'm shopping for a good sporting Clays gun. My Superposed is choked F&M, too tight for my skill level on the course. I'm a Browning guy and would like either a Citori or Cynergy.

Advise please. Edited October 5, 2014 by mlorr

[leroy]

Get ya a Citori with interchangeable chokes (...that fit's ya...)... Ya can hand it down (...with your superposed...) to your grandchildren... You'll never be able to do that with a pump or seimauto...

 

leroy

[Luke E.]

 My grandfather has a 12 and 20ga Citori and I've shot clays and dove with them. I have a very high opinion of them and think it would be hard to go wrong with one.

[McAllyn]

For Sporting Clays, I'd do a Citori 625.  For Trap, I'd look at the Cynergy Classic.  In the right hands, a Browning can make some deep-pocketed fellas feel pretty bad.

 

FWIW, there was a really nice Browning Special Sporting Clays at The Gun Room in Lebanon with a full set of Briley sub-gauge tubes.  Made me regret giving up the clay sports.

 

Mac

[KahrMan]

I vote for the Citori as well.  Browning makes some great skeet/trap/sporting clays guns.  I used to shoot a Browning XT Trap and loved it.

[mlorr]

all good info, thanks guys.  what are your thoughts on barrel length for sporting clays, 26", 30"?

[McAllyn]

I always used 30" for sporting clays and trap, and a 28" for skeet.  However, I was always terrible at all of those sports, so maybe it's a "Do as I DON'T Do" situation.

 

Mac

[runco]

My statement is not about science, but rather my opinion:  Longer barrels do not effectively impact shot pattern, but helps with the hand, eye, anticipation, and lead with the brain.  The longer the barrel, the more it helps my brain process the visual information.  At the end of the day, shooting in sporting clays and alike, sights become useless.  I seldom if ever use sights anymore when shooting clays.

[KahrMan]

It has been my experience that most people shooting skeet/sporting clays shoot 26-28" barrels and trap 30-32" barrel.  In games where you have to swing and track "birds", you don't have to swing the shorter barrels as far as the longer barrels.  It is not a huge difference but it does allow you to acquire the birds faster with a shorter barrel.