It's not just you. Of course, I don't keep a close eye on new gun prices -- gas is too expensive for me to take any detours, to the LGSs, on my way to the range.is it me, or, have many new autoloaders gone way up in price...
funny, I just did the math on the "average" cost of a trip to the skeet range. Say 5 rounds, plus some 12 ga ammo purchased on sale, and it's real easy to spend $50 a trip. Work in some sporting clays or five stand, and the costs go up. Multiply that by an average of 2 weeks a month (give/take for summer/winter), and it's pretty easy to spend $1,200 a year on ammo and targets.
Sheesh, wish I had done this math when I was looking for an O/U. That would have pushed me to get a XS Skeet
Stick or stack, that is the question.I am actually looking at the Beretta A400 Xcel Sporting model - even at its newer prices it is still half a basic Browning or Beretta O/U