Help buying new o/u shotgun

[tackb]

most important is you tell us and show us what you decide to get

we all love a bit of new gun porn !

 

[Bowland blades]

I've used ancient side by side shotguns all my life, but I can no longer justify the cost to keep them in repair. I'm ready for a new over an under now. My requirements are very much from a rough game shooting requirement (not clays):
- proofed for high speed steel.
- 3 inch chamber (I shoot some geese and foreshore)
- I don't like full pistol grips so as classic/straight as possible
- 28 inch or max 30 inch barrels
- adjustable chokes or if fixed not tighter than 1/2
- I guess I'll have to get used to single trigger, but I don't need it to be selective or anything like that.
- functional, don't need fancy wood or engraving.
- Budget <£3k
Currently people are steering me towards Miroku, Beretta or Browning (apparently they are made by Miroku aswell). I'm off the nearest clay ground to try a few, but if anyone has any advice or has recently been through this process, let me know. Thanks in advance.

You take a nice wood and deep blued metal on the foreshore ..... You might cry when you get back home from rust etc . Get a 3" 1/2" gas gun or a pump for the wildfowling . When you dump it in the mud or worse they aint hard to take to bits to clean out the mud .

 

[Smellydog]

Pick a point 25m away, shut your peepers then mount the gun briskly, open eyes and you should be looking straight down the rib. Old farmer / shotgun dealer taught me that before I knew what a was.

Yep, that is what I do as well

 

[muddy42]

You take a nice wood and deep blued metal on the foreshore ..... You might cry when you get back home from rust etc . Get a 3" 1/2" gas gun or a pump for the wildfowling . When you dump it in the mud or worse they aint hard to take to bits to clean out the mud .

Hi - Thanks for your concern. Believe me I am meticulous about caring for old guns. I think you owe it to the craftsmen who made them 100 years ago. Generally I don't shoot below the high tide mark, but on fields next to the sea so the salt isn't as bad. But secondly I take oily rags with me and keep wiping. It gives you something to do in the hide!

But yes, got my eyes on a 3.5 inch Beretta xtrema aswell!

 

[Tarquin]

Get one of these a Kofs RP with 3 barrels with 3.5inch chambers. Wouldnt matter too much if it didnt fit!

 

[muddy42]

Get one of these a Kofs RP with 3 barrels with 3.5inch chambers. Wouldnt matter too much if it didnt fit!

I like it. An over and under and a side by side - best of both!

 

[tackb]

I like it. An over and under and a side by side - best of both!

a disappointment free threesome............

 

[Malxwal]

a disappointment free threesome............

Dunno, ever felt a Kofs trigger ?

 

[Bowland blades]

Hi - Thanks for your concern. Believe me I am meticulous about caring for old guns. I think you owe it to the craftsmen who made them 100 years ago. Generally I don't shoot below the high tide mark, but on fields next to the sea so the salt isn't as bad. But secondly I take oily rags with me and keep wiping. It gives you something to do in the hide!

But yes, got my eyes on a 3.5 inch Beretta xtrema aswell!

I was going on the brief set and stated as" foreshore" that is land that is covered by the in-coming tide .

 

[muddy42]

most important is you tell us and show us what you decide to get

we all love a bit of new gun porn !

Right so I went with a second hand Beretta 690 field III. I tried out quite a few guns and this one just felt right - correct point of aim, balance and cast. Decision made and paid for in about 20 mins. It has a 3 inch chamber, single selective trigger, resetting safety catch and variable chokes (currently with cylinder and 1/4, I don't think I'll change this). Its ok for high performance steel and as I understand it, being proofed for 1320 bar can take pretty much any cartridge on sale up to 50g 3 inch magnums, not that that would be comfortable to shoot!