durstgt
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I've been thinking about picking up a shotgun for a few years and I'll finally have the means to do it. I live in Texas, so guns are readily available secondhand. My budget is about $1k, and I'd probably primarily use it for skeet and trap. I would like to potentially use it for pheasant up in the TX panhandle with my uncle though.
I'm leaning towards over/unders because I've shot a few and really liked them. My favorite that I've shot is a beretta silver pigeon, but new they are out of my price range. On the other end of things, I've shot a friend's yildiz O/U that I believe was around $500 new (they are turkish and only distributed through academy AFAIK). I liked the gun alright, except one extractor got stuck a few times over a day of shooting. That makes me kind of nervous about their quality/reliability.
I'm currently thinking about either
A. Getting a nicer used O/U at one of the zillions of gun shows in Houston
B. Getting a cheaper new O/U (recommendations on models?)
If I decide to go the used route, what should I look out for when inspecting the guns. I know the simplest thing to do is take a friend who knows alot about O/U's but all my friends who claim to be knowledgeable about them have turned out to be full of ****.
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Also, I've considered getting a standard semi-auto field type gun, since I do live in Houston and may one day want to duck hunt. I'm not sure I'd ever actually do this, and while duck is my favorite meat that flies, it seems like a real pain ********** to clean a bird like that. Let me know if you have any recs/know of any good deals there as well.
I'm leaning towards over/unders because I've shot a few and really liked them. My favorite that I've shot is a beretta silver pigeon, but new they are out of my price range. On the other end of things, I've shot a friend's yildiz O/U that I believe was around $500 new (they are turkish and only distributed through academy AFAIK). I liked the gun alright, except one extractor got stuck a few times over a day of shooting. That makes me kind of nervous about their quality/reliability.
I'm currently thinking about either
A. Getting a nicer used O/U at one of the zillions of gun shows in Houston
B. Getting a cheaper new O/U (recommendations on models?)
If I decide to go the used route, what should I look out for when inspecting the guns. I know the simplest thing to do is take a friend who knows alot about O/U's but all my friends who claim to be knowledgeable about them have turned out to be full of ****.
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Also, I've considered getting a standard semi-auto field type gun, since I do live in Houston and may one day want to duck hunt. I'm not sure I'd ever actually do this, and while duck is my favorite meat that flies, it seems like a real pain ********** to clean a bird like that. Let me know if you have any recs/know of any good deals there as well.