Browning Citori O/U

[fabsroman]

Originally Posted by 6.5s4ever

Popplecop,
I have had many Browning O/U's, used most of them for shooting doubles in Trap, I now have two Brownings I use specifically for 5 stand Sporting Clays .
I tried a couple Beretta O/U's but the fit was not as good as the Brownings.
So I use what works best for me and that is a Browning 525 Sporting Clays
model with the Adjustable Stock and my backup gun is a Browning XS Special
also with an adjustable stock. Both guns are great performers and work very
well with reasonable care. The barrel rusting issue was a good while back, they now chrome line all their barrels so rusting is no longer a problem. I
can not say anything bad about them really, other than a few of my trap
version guns had galling on the reciever mating surfaces. The more recent
models say in the past 10 years dont seem to do that anymore from what I have seen. Browning seems to be making a good product as of current.
Regards 6.5

Yeah, my Citori was from around 1990 because I bought it right after the Mustang GT in 1989. I have no idea what Browning makes anymore because since that incident I refuse to buy another Browning. Looked at a Browning Gold 3.5 back in 1997 because it was $200 cheaper than the SBE and I was broke and in law school, and then decided to save for the SBE in lieu of buying the Browning. Nowadays, Browning might make a very good gun and their customer service might be a lot better. However, it is like I say about cars. Ford would have to be in pretty bad shape for me to buy anything else. Same goes for Beretta and Benelli. Still debating buying a Benelli Super Sport Performance edition gun, but I shoot the Beretta Teknys pretty well already.

What did you do with the Beretta you got?

[popplecop]

I shoot old Berettas, the BL series and I like them. The Citori just didn't feel right to me, so I gave it to my son. He says that it is the best fitting O/U he's ever shouldered, so it'll get a lot of use by him. Actullay the shotguns I shoot the most are SxSs, but the O/Us I shoot the most now are the old Marlin md. 90s with DTs.

[gold40]

In forty years of shooting all types of guns, I have NEVER experienced barrel rust! Not in my Brownings, Colt's, S&W's, Lefevers, L.C. Smiths, etc.

[fabsroman]

Originally Posted by gold40

In forty years of shooting all types of guns, I have NEVER experienced barrel rust! Not in my Brownings, Colt's, S&W's, Lefevers, L.C. Smiths, etc.

Me too, with the exception of the Browning Citori o/u. I must have got the only lemon they ever made. However, I have only been shooting for something like 30 years now since I will be turning 40 this year. Then again, I did start using the .410 at around 7 years of age, so that might actually be 33 years of shooting.