Browning Citori XT Trap ?

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Coop204

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Need some opinions on a used Citori XT Trap with adjustable cheek stock. I looked at this gun at my local shop today and the metal to me would rate 99%, but the stock has two tiny dents and a few fub marks in the clear coat , I would rate it about 95%. Only has about 300 shells fired through it, has 4 choke tubes and Browning box.

Is this to good to pass up for $ 1500 out the door? Thanks Rudy
 
Check the lock up ...and make sure its tight.

Take the gun apart - and check the barrel to receiver connection - make sure there is no galling.

You can maybe steam out the dents / and with 20 man hours you could fix the finish ...but its a lot of work.

If its a 30" barrel - its not, in general, desireable. If its a 32" - its more desireable. If it has Invector Plus chokes - vs Invector --- its more desireable. Does it have the adj trigger shoe...

all little things - but yes, it sounds like a pretty good deal.
 
Thanks for your help guys! The marks on the stock bother me. I still haven't decided on what to do yet. Rudy
 
A gun at 95% and only 300 shells thru it ...are not consistent ...and it makes me wonder a lot about what you're being told.
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300 shells for many of us ...is one week's usage / maybe 2 weeks ...

and dents and scratches ...( while things happen) .../ I have guns that had thousands of shells thru them before they got their first scratch...
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Whether it has a Browning box or not / to me is irrelevent. If we save the boxes ( and I don't ) mostly because if you own a dozen or more shotguns - the boxes are too bulky to keep unless you stick them up in the rafters of a garage or somewhere out of the way - and unless I want to give the gun as a gift down the road .... I've never had a need for a box. I don't buy guns with the intent to resell them down the road ....so having a box or not to me ...is just no issue.

If I were going to sell a gun ...and the buyer insisted on a box or discounting the price / I might raise the price just because the buyer was irritating me - and making up petty issues to pay less. You're buying the gun - not the box ...so whether its there is irrelevent to me.
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The OEM Browning finish is difficult to match. Steaming a dent out of a stock can be done - with damp towels and a steam iron ( and patience ) ...but in almost all cases, its still visible in some kinds of light unless you're willing to sand it a little. If you touch the stock with sand paper ....now you've created a monster. Once you rough up, or scratch, or marr that varnish on the stock ...about the only thing you can do is strip it off ...and refinish the whole gun ( and if you get into the color in the wood / its way tougher).
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Or, if you buy it ...living with the dents and marrs on the finish - is probably what you should do..../ and I don't blame you for questioning it ...if every time you pick up the gun - those dents and marrs bother you - then don't buy it !!
 
Remember to offset this used gun ...against what it'll cost you to buy a new one ...the XT Trap with the adj comb lists for about $ 3,300 with the street price in my area at around $ 3,000.

If you have the serial number on the used XT Trap - the Browning web site will give you the code to decipher the year the gun was made...
 
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