I am in the market for a sporting shotgun for shooting skeet and or sporting clays.
It is obvious to me that one can spend an infinite amount of $$$$$ on one if so desired. I however have placed my budget at $1,500.00 or less and feel this will buy me a very nice sporting shotgun.
Does anyone on the board shoot skeet/trap or sporting clays that could help me with choosing a make and model that would suit me for this price range? If I need to spend more let me know that to.
I have been out of the shot gun market my whole life as I have always had shotguns when growing up from my grandfather and my dad and had plenty to choose from for hunting and even shooting skeet with. Times have changed, designs have changed, technology has changed and I know there is a lot more shotguns on the market today that are more advanced than ever before.
The ones I have been looking at, and are in no praticular order are,
Beretta, Xtrema2 from $1,050.00 to $1,450.00
Scroll down to the Xtrema2
http://www.berettausa.com/product/product_field_guns_main.htm
I have been looking at other Beretta's too but as I said I don't know much about the different models to be able to choose one.
Benelli, Sport II $1,299.00 and Super Sport $1,549.00
http://www.benelliusa.com/firearms/supersport.tpl
Both of these guns are nice and I think would serve my purpose very well but I want to hear your observations on them and others if you have experance with them.
Dehaan U5E English Sporter, This was recommended to me and looks to be a fantastic gun for the money. $1,095.00 shipped.
Go to the special offers section.
http://www.dhshotguns.com/
This is just confusing as there are soooooooo many to choose from and these are just a few I have been looking at and I am not dead set on any of them, I am trying to get others opinions as to what you recommend and or use and why?
Thanks for your time.
ETA - I had to take the pic's out because they were way to big, sorry.
Ti.
It is obvious to me that one can spend an infinite amount of $$$$$ on one if so desired. I however have placed my budget at $1,500.00 or less and feel this will buy me a very nice sporting shotgun.
Does anyone on the board shoot skeet/trap or sporting clays that could help me with choosing a make and model that would suit me for this price range? If I need to spend more let me know that to.
I have been out of the shot gun market my whole life as I have always had shotguns when growing up from my grandfather and my dad and had plenty to choose from for hunting and even shooting skeet with. Times have changed, designs have changed, technology has changed and I know there is a lot more shotguns on the market today that are more advanced than ever before.
The ones I have been looking at, and are in no praticular order are,
Beretta, Xtrema2 from $1,050.00 to $1,450.00
Scroll down to the Xtrema2
http://www.berettausa.com/product/product_field_guns_main.htm
I have been looking at other Beretta's too but as I said I don't know much about the different models to be able to choose one.
Benelli, Sport II $1,299.00 and Super Sport $1,549.00
http://www.benelliusa.com/firearms/supersport.tpl
Both of these guns are nice and I think would serve my purpose very well but I want to hear your observations on them and others if you have experance with them.
Dehaan U5E English Sporter, This was recommended to me and looks to be a fantastic gun for the money. $1,095.00 shipped.
Go to the special offers section.
http://www.dhshotguns.com/
This is just confusing as there are soooooooo many to choose from and these are just a few I have been looking at and I am not dead set on any of them, I am trying to get others opinions as to what you recommend and or use and why?
Thanks for your time.
ETA - I had to take the pic's out because they were way to big, sorry.
Ti.