Always wanted an O/U for clay shoots. Does a reliable O/U exist for under a grand?

I e heard good things about Mossberg

Used River Red Label

Mossberg silver reserve

Yildiz doesn't make a bad one at all.

x2 for Yildiz. They break in really nice. I have 2 20ga over unders, and went ahead and bought 2 20ga semi autos last summer for non shooters. Impressed with the quality for the price.

Ruger red labels are pretty sweet as well! And I have seen some winchester 101 come up for about that price.

just purchased a o/u yildiz love it

Nice, which one did you get?

Yildiz is good, even better with a good pad on it....

X2 on the Red Label.

Used SKB in nice shape.

I've had a few Brownings, a Winchester 101 Field and a 101 Pigeon.

I'll never understand why one kicks worse than another. It ought to be a simple thing as weight of the gun and recoil pad. And recoil was never an issue with me anyway, especially with something like Winchester AA target loads.

I liked the the Brownings I had best. The Winchesters were good. A friend's Ruger Red label would stomp on you. That's what I don't get, just weight of the gun against the power of the shell, right?

A friend once told me that he would rather have a name brand, good used quality O/U than a cheap new one. And the OP question referred to reliability. I guess something could fail. But that is about as few of moving parts as I could imagine.

My opinion is that if you aren't happy with your first purchase that a good used one won't lose as much as a cheaper model new one sold used. Good quality O/U shotguns just don't seem to lose money unless you are banging them up in the field.

AVOID MOSSBERG-- total junk and junk customer service. Had a weld break on the barrels and one slipped so far it wouldn't fire. Sent the gun back--- asked for replacement, marked receiver and barrels.

They told me it was replaced... then sent back the same receiver with new barrels.... never again, but I won it at a DU event so no love lost.

I would look at the newer Winchester 101s, Red Label, etc

Cz

Wow,
Brought back an old but goody.

Digging up old dirt for shooters that are broke. In this day and time 1 grand is starter

Digging up old dirt for shooters that are broke. In this day and time 1 grand is starter. On a side note i have been beat by shooters with 300 dollar guns. They were better shooters. But i lost in style . loOLOOL

I bought my son a CZ Teal 20 gauge O/U at Cabela's about 3 years ago. List price was $800, but I happened to see that they had it on sale for $450. I wish I also bought the same gun in a 12 gauge at that time. Very stiff at first, but nice checkered Turkish walnut, swings well with good balance...hard to believe it was that cheap. Same gun is now $850 and I still think it's worth that price.

I'd stay away from Mossbergs, they seem to have quality control issues. I'm not positive because I have never owned or tried to sell one, but I don't think they hold their value as well as others.

I suck at this sport. It's hard to get a good sight picture on a clay through my scope. I bought this thinking it may help. I like it, but then I don't know much at all about O/U's.


I did dove hunt with it once, plenty of birds, and really enjoyed this shotgun. A dream to point and carry.

I thought the Weatherby Orion was about $1000. Right?

Edit- more like $1100 but I have not seen a new gun for less that has ejectors.

All the budget o/u guns are only available with extractors. I wonder does it cost that much more to put ejectors in the gun? Seriously haha

I would go with a Weatherby Orion FOR SURE. CZ is not a bad backup option. I know some people like Yildiz and have had good experiences. But that is all online from my experience. Yildiz are an affordable O/U but should be $200 instead of $450 for what you're really getting.

Used citori