One receiver, many barrels

[Schmendrick]

Okay, I getting ready to prove my newbie status here:

I am looking at the Browning Citori 725 Sporting 12g 30" for my first gun. I would like to shoot all the diciplines. My local Clay Club offers quite a bit, including field hunts. I was reading that different guns are required for different diciplines. I dont have that kind of money.

Is it possible to buy different sets of barrels to fit one on receiver? Say, a set of barrels for each dicipline? Would I have to buy them all at once as a package deal, or would it be possible to acquire them over a period of time as my budget allows?

 

[tiptop]

Buy a multi choke gun. Just change the chokes to what ever discipline you are doing(sporting,skeet,trap) until you decide which discipline you are going to stick with.If you decide later that skeet or trap is your favoured discipline then you can go and buy a dedicated gun for that discipline if you wish.

 

[Will Hewland]

Very few people shoot all disciplines and if they do, they will likely have a main favourite one. I would say buy a sporter with an adjustable comb and 30 or 32" barrels. It will do for most things very well. After a year or so, if you finalise on one discipline then you might want to change gun, but unlikely. Knowing one gun well is worth more to you than supposed advantages from different gun types for each discipline.

 

[Jan Powell]

There's certainly no need to buy several barrel sets (although that can be done). Depending on your build and shooting style 30" or 32" barrels will be fine, choked to suit the discipline. If you wish to shoot different gauges, as many skeet shooters do, then buy yourself a set of Briley tubes.

 

[Skeet UK]

Okay, I getting ready to prove my newbie status here:

I am looking at the Browning Citori 725 Sporting 12g 30" for my first gun. I would like to shoot all the diciplines. My local Clay Club offers quite a bit, including field hunts. I was reading that different guns are required for different diciplines. I dont have that kind of money.

Is it possible to buy different sets of barrels to fit one on receiver? Say, a set of barrels for each dicipline? Would I have to buy them all at once as a package deal, or would it be possible to acquire them over a period of time as my budget allows?

Hi. The 725 has been well received on both sides of the pond. They have chosen to slim the gun down a bit, more like a Beretta. Brownings have traditionally been quite wide and tall, this new gun is much sleeker.

As has been said, 30 inch tubes are a good idea and will allow you to shoot skeet, sporting etc.

They might be a touch long if you decided you like the super fast, International Skeet, but don't worry about that for now.

They might be a touch short if you decide you really like Trap disceplines, but again it is a non issue for quite some time.

So yeah, if you like the gun, get one. Adjustability is good so if you can get one with that facility, all the better.

 

[Les53]

I will go along with everything said previously. Can you not try all the disciplines and then decide which you want to shoot. The business of having different barrel sets, stocks, forends used to be very popular in the USA, maybe it still is, however it's not cheap to have such sets. A lot of people start off with a multi choke sporter, however a lot of people end up specialising in one discipline or sub discipline, so having the right gun for the discipline is often favoured. Having the right gun for the job makes life that bit easier, as different things are required for each discipline or sub discipline. :wink:

 

[Wonko the Sane]

I would suspect that the value of what you assemble would be a determinant. What sort of costs are entailed and how much of that can be recovered if you decide to flip the lot?

I have a Perazzi Mirage that I have acquired two additional barrel sets for. It was a 72cm originally and now I also have a 70cm (helice), and a 75cm (trap stuff). I've put an adjusto stock on it but all the barrels shoot to the same POI so the adjusto stuff just got me to where I like it w/out a lot of screwing around looking for the right stock. The same forend fits all three barrels too so packing the set around is no big shakes. The point of all that is that I have a really versatile setup that will be easy to recover the cost off since I shopped hard for the additional barrels. Not that I have any intentions of offing it.

But like was mentioned above, a single gun with screw-in chokes will definitely serve the same purpose. An 70cm MT6 I have has done everything from flyers to skeet and for some time was the only O/U I had. (One gun can do it all for me since my meager skill levels are not demanding hahaha) My personal opinion is that the current fad for mega long barrels is just absurd. Nobody shoots targets any more difficult than bunker and 75cm barrels have served the winners for decades.

But - whatever rings your bell is what you need, so try them all

WtS

 

[** Pending Removal **]

Pick the gun that you like and that you can shoot and just shoot. Nothing wrong with shooting lots of disciplines......I do (except skeet because I gave that up).

For me it is a MX8 fixed choke trap gun for all trap disciplines and Helice plus a bit of sporting in my off season. Only change I make is to go to a 20 bore version for game shooting

 

[ips]

30" multichoke sporter is what you require, end of.