I have some nice investment grade shotguns, I DO NOT bring them to trap, skeet, sporting clay shoots, lol...
I bring my A400 Xcel or beretta 686 onyx or both, Them both cost under $4000 new, I also have a citori that I will sometimes bring, but I have gotten so good with the 686 I don't use the browning as much...
I have a buddy that can afford any shotgun he wants and he uses a CZ redhead target, I was with him the day he bought it for $1000 plus tax brand new, he has won more competitions with that thing no matter what the next guy spent on his gun, he has beat me more times than I can count and we have swapped guns, he still beats me with my gun...
So its not the gun I can assure you, if you can afford it and it swings well for you, shoot it. If there is a snob on the field making you uncomfortable, ask him to see his fancy gun {he will be more than glad to show it off} and drop it "by accident" as you hand it back to him, lol just kidding, that could get you shot...
I have noticed certain fields bring certain types of people. I don't care what the others think, I pay my dues, I am a member, I can shoot what I want. I find that more of an issue than what gun you shoot is- what some of these snobs have labelled "range etiquette", this used to just be a list of common sense rules that were more safety minded than anything else.
Now they have morphed into something different- "don't drop your shells on the ground", "don't bend over to pick up shells", ect ect ect..
I wear a pouch vest because I am lazy and don't want to bend over to pick up shells everytime, but if someone else wants to bend over and pick out of a box, that doesn't bother me, at a range meeting we had a few guys said "its distracting" a friend of mine replied "if you are distracted by me bending over maybe I am in the wrong club", we thought it was funny, the snobs did NOT. Also with the letting your shells drop issue, if you pick them up who cares where they land when you are shooting, I am an offender of this, I let them drop at my feet and then when I am done, I pick them all up and put them in my vest, these guys drop them in their hands, the bending over thing really is not popular wit the gun snobs for some reason...