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Field vs. Sporting

ducati04ducati04 Member Posts: 2 ✭✭
edited May 2007 in Ask the Experts
I grew up hunting all types of small game. I used the same gun with the same setup for everything (a Browning BPS Pump.) I have not shot for a while and recently went to a sporting clays shoot and got the itch. I have been looking at the Beretta White Onyx as a new gun for sport, but was told that it is a field gun and will cause me to shoot low at sporting clays. Beretta also makes a 686 White Onyx that it lists in its "competition guns" section of the website.

#1 should I be concerned that a gun is labeled "field" vs. "sporting", and #2 Is there a difference between the White Onyx and the 686 White Onyx. Finally, if I wanted to use the gun for both bird hunts and for sport, which type of gun should I choose.

I would appreciate anyone's opinion on this subject.
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  • Tailgunner1954Tailgunner1954 Member Posts: 7,734 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Well, let's just say that you'll have a lot of fun at clays with the gun you have now.
    If (when) the bug bite$ you hard, and you $tart getting $eriou$, than look at upgrading your $hooting iron.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    field guns are patterned to hit a target with a 50/50 swarm to catch birds that tendto dip during a hunt just as you sqeeze off the round.

    target guns are 60/40 and 70/30 so you never lose sight of the bird as it travels.
    stay with a target grade gun for target disiplines and field grade guns for field use.
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
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    MO, CT, VA.
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  • clickclick Member Posts: 107 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    unless you want to re-learn how to shoot a shotgun, i would stay with a field grade gun.. only down side to this in sporting and trap is that you lose sight of your target when about to shoot.. my .02
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  • iwannausernameiwannausername Member Posts: 7,131
    edited November -1
    But then the games are designed to simulate hunting...


    i'd go with just buying a buttload of ammo and practice rounds with the $$ you'd spend on a new gun. I used to show up to skeet shoots with a ratty old mossberg pump, gave the surgeons with the browning autos and various O/Us the willies with it. At least your pump gun is a nice one :)
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  • grizzclawgrizzclaw Member Posts: 1,159 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The 680 series are the same frame, and the White Onyx is a 686 frame. To simplify a little, a high comb stock will make you shoot higher, a regular stock will pretty much be right on. If your going to shoot sporting clays buy a regular stocked gun or one with an adjustable comb.
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  • rsnyder55rsnyder55 Member Posts: 2,526 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guns for skeet and other such shooting sports were also built to withstand a much higher volume of shooting. A shooting sport participant can shoot in several months what an average field gun would see in a typical lifetime.

    For example, I usually shot 75 to 150 shells per session and at my peek, was going out three times a week. My field guns were lucky to get shot 150 shells per year.
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