after a year she still looks new...

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Slugo

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couldn't ask for a better sub-gauge gun!! The last of the Weatherby O/U's built by SKB of Japan. This one is the 20ga/28" Orion Classic III with hand-rubbed English walnut furniture. I use it primarily for sporting clays, and it makes a terrific, fast handling skeet gun. Top it off with some custom Carlson's choke tubes SK/IC and begin to smash some orange clay!!

Hope I do as well with my 20 gauge Citori back from the gunsmith. Sitting in the gunsmith's shop waiting for a new rubber shoe...

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CDNN...

absolutely not! CDNN has in stock a few Weatherby shotguns that were built by Fausti of Italy, with short 26" barrels. This gun was built by SKB, big difference. You have to remember, CDNN offers weapons that for the most part are poor sellers or overstock inventory. That's how they can offer such low price points. Although, they do have a few really nice shotguns over there, like the Winchester SX3 autoloader for $800 bucks...
 
Shows what I know, I didn't even know Fausti made guns for Wthby. I've seen some decent fausti and then some that I wondered what they were thinking. SKB's I'm learning from watching Ithicas.
 
hehehehe, it's musical chairs. Weatherby just dropped their line of O/U's and now offer none! Checkout their website... :confused:
 
The world is like that. I remember folks coming in the shop I used to work at and bad mouthing one type of guitar while talking about how great their's was. I didn't have the heart to tell them that both were made in the same factory by the same workers with the same parts.
 
Nice.....

I value the Ithaca/SKB 20 gauge O/U here quite a bit. It's a fine dove gun and does well for the uplands too. Overly choked at Mod/Full, but that's what spreaders are for.

Yours is prettier....
 
I have the Model 685 SKB which is what this model is. I find that they are very solid guns, excellent triggers, with outstanding wood for the dollar that was available at the time. I always thought the phesant on the side could have been done a little differently but for the rounds that I put through mine I can not complain. Great looking gun.
 
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