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Sho' is pretty! Another way to look at the question is, "does Browning ever make junk?" I have never owned one, but I believe their reputation for quality is arrived at honestly. The only real issue is whether or not this gun is in your price range. But while you're looking at autoloaders, you might want to also check out the Benelli M2. Cabelas has them in the $1200 to $1300 range. It looks like they carry the Browning Silver shotguns for roughly the same price range. Like I said, I have no experience with the Brownings, but I've handled the Benelli, and there is no slicker action on a semiauto shotgun than Benellis. It is very impressive.i8godzilla wrote:Any constructive comments are very appreciated.
I don't have 6.5 lb. SBS, but I do have a 32" barreled competition O/U that has GOT to weigh 8 or 9 lb. at least. I've taken it dove hunting but mostly used it for skeet. It's a pretty good skeet gun.....better than I am a skeet shooter.....but now I want an autoloader for hunting. Plus, when I break open my O/U, it really shucks the spent shells out about 900 yards, and an autoloader has got to make it easier to police up my spent hulls on somebody else's property.Dadtodabone wrote:Be creatively and practically Anachronistic! Find a nice used Browning BSS or one of the other iterations of Miroku double guns. There are other choices that are comparable in American field doubles that aren't pricy. The first time you swing a nicely balanced 6.5 lb. double you'll be hooked. Everything else will feel like you're balancing a pig on the end of the barrel.
My current field guns are box lock non-ejectors(AYA No. 3 and WW Greener E18). Break the gun, pluck out the hulls, drop them in the pouch, load two more. I do shoot an Arrizaballaga side lock ejector when my arthritis is bad. Not due to the ejectors, it's the only gun with assisted opening I own currently, that my wife will let me carry in the field.The Annoyed Man wrote:I don't have 6.5 lb. SBS, but I do have a 32" barreled competition O/U that has GOT to weigh 8 or 9 lb. at least. I've taken it dove hunting but mostly used it for skeet. It's a pretty good skeet gun.....better than I am a skeet shooter.....but now I want an autoloader for hunting. Plus, when I break open my O/U, it really shucks the spent shells out about 900 yards, and an autoloader has got to make it easier to police up my spent hulls on somebody else's property.Dadtodabone wrote:Be creatively and practically Anachronistic! Find a nice used Browning BSS or one of the other iterations of Miroku double guns. There are other choices that are comparable in American field doubles that aren't pricy. The first time you swing a nicely balanced 6.5 lb. double you'll be hooked. Everything else will feel like you're balancing a pig on the end of the barrel.
