Shotguns
I love these threads. Reminds me of my first efforts at shooting clay targets. I decided that I wanted an O/U and that I wanted to learn to shoot sporting clays.
Read tons of literature in gun mags and decided to purchase a Remington Peerless. I knew nothing about O/Us and my only experience previous to this was with remington 870's. I figured that Remington built good guns and the Peerless had to be good.
When I started shooting I was the butt of jokes, most behind my back. The Peerless was a POS and everyone knew it, except me of course. I shot the gun for Two years untill the trigger started to malf... Lots of shooters had a great time amusing themselves at my expense.
But I did learn...
After a few lessons and shooting several different guns.
Cleaned out my gun safe and put a down payment on a K80. Financed the rest of it. I love shooting sporting and I decided that I wanted one gun that was the best. The gun has worked flawlessly and I am very happy with it. It is worth every penny I spent on it. Dumped the Peerless to some foo...shooter who collects Remingtons.
Now the same guys who laughed at me when I shot the Peerless find ways to berate me because of my "High dollar gun". They ask if it bought me any targets, complain it is too heavy or that it has a hair trigger when I let them shoot it. But they all want to shoot it
they brag when they shoot better than me, and if I beat them it is because I have an expensive gun!
What is the point of this diatribe?
Simple, find a gun you can afford and shoot well and ignore the jerks who comment about your choice of weapons.
The 1100 and 870 have won a lions share of Trap and Skeet trophies over the years.
Geoff Ross