Looking for a New O/U

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Nmhuntr

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I have a 20 O/U but I am considering a 12 O/U. I need recommendations on a good one that doesn’t weight too much yet still is good an absorbing some of that recoil. I have a Semi but would like to try a O/U

Thanks
 
You'll get alot of answers......

I have a Browning Cynergy CX Composite. It can take a beating, is light but not too light, has the ability to add spacers at the buttstock for fit of length, has the ability to raise the cheek pad for proper head alignment, has several barrel length options, smooth and crisp trigger. Plus it's a sharp looking gun.
 
Take a look at the Weatherby Orion 1. I have the twenty gauge and that comes in just a little over 6 lbs. The 12 gauge comes in at just a little over 7. My Citori Hunter in 12 gauge comes in at 7.75 lbs. I do love the way my Citori feels and it shoots wonderful . I don't spend much time in the field anymore usually one to two hours so the Citori weight doesn't bother me.
 
Goosemaster said:
28 EELL
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Wait a minute, let me get my glasses. Is that goose over there or is that a high-brow blue-blood in a Suburban?

Technically EELL means Extra Extra Lusso Lusso. Lusso=Luxurious

Goose, lets go on a late season hunt together. Bring that late model 'burban with the heated seats and steering wheel. I'll call one of the Gucci lodges in Montana and get a reservation. They'll throw out a bunch of cracked corn and liberated birds 30 minutes before we start our hunt.
 
There are many options out there for what you are looking for. I’d suggest getting to a shop and holding as many different guns as you can. I prefer Beretta but really liking the new Rizzini I bought his year also.
 
Bob Peters said:
Wait a minute, let me get my glasses. Is that goose over there or is that a high-brow blue-blood in a Suburban?

Technically EELL means Extra Extra Lusso Lusso. Lusso=Luxurious

Goose, lets go on a late season hunt together. Bring that late model 'burban with the heated seats and steering wheel. I'll call one of the Gucci lodges in Montana and get a reservation. They'll throw out a bunch of cracked corn and liberated birds 30 minutes before we start our hunt.
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Ok great.Sime Some elitist from California will cook fondue and get the short bus out.We can write a check for 5 grand after 3 days.
 
I switched back to 12 ga guns for pheasants this season and went with a Citori 725 Feather Superlight. I don't weigh guns, but its light. I'm not recoil sensitive, but I've shot probably 50 rounds at pheasants this season and haven't noticed anything stiffer than when I hunted with 16s or 20s (even though I know it is).
 
I’d start looking at a Beretta SP1 or a Browning 725/825. Fausti, Rizzini, Cesar Guerini it all depends on how much you want to spend.
 
I was looking for a lighter gun this spring and was going back and forth between a light weight semi and an over and under. I was looking at the FABARM semis and ran across a used FABARM Elos d2 ou. The used price was a little easier for me to justify. Otherwise I think I would have went with a Rizzini aurum in 16 or or an aurum light in 12. I was thinking about the ultralegaro too.
Mine weighs 6.5 even with shells in the chamber, extended choke tubes , and an ounce and a half of weight in the butt of it.
Recoil while hunting is not a problem. I’m sure there is some muzzle jump. I shot quite a few clays with it this summer. One day I made the mistake of shooting 200 with it . At about 5 boxes I started to feel it and at the end of the round face slap was brutal.
 
There are a few manufacturers that produce aluminum alloy framed guns now. I would not recommend one for any of the shooting sports unless you're into that self-harm thing. But You won't find a finer gun than the Beretta. Mine was one of the first off, the boat. Sometime in the 80's. Plain black 686 ultralight. 26'' tubes. Waited 3 months for it. Had Bryley's port it and a sporting clays pad put on. Bought a full set of extended chokes. Killed countless phez, quail, grouse and turkeys. It's never missed a lick!
 
BrownDogsCan2 said:
I was looking for a lighter gun this spring and was going back and forth between a light weight semi and an over and under. I was looking at the FABARM semis and ran across a used FABARM Elos d2 ou. The used price was a little easier for me to justify. Otherwise I think I would have went with a Rizzini aurum in 16 or or an aurum light in 12. I was thinking about the ultralegaro too.
Mine weighs 6.5 even with shells in the chamber, extended choke tubes , and an ounce and a half of weight in the butt of it.
Recoil while hunting is not a problem. I’m sure there is some muzzle jump. I shot quite a few clays with it this summer. One day I made the mistake of shooting 200 with it . At about 5 boxes I started to feel it and at the end of the round face slap was brutal.
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You might have already done this. When I shoot an O/U for high volume clays I shoot the lightest load possible. If you can find 1oz. at 1170 or so they shoot so much softer than the standard 1 1/8 1200
 
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