Omaha-BeenGlockin
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Been getting a real bad itch for a 20ga stackbarrel-----26in barrels only.
Have kind of narrowed it down to the Ruger Red Label----Weatherby Orion---and Browning Citori Lightening. Beretta stocks are too long for me---so pretty much out of the running----the others seem to fit me OK.
These are within a few hundred $$ of each other---so cost isn't much of a factor in the final selection.
Also---I HATE shiney stocks(if I wanted to be "pimped out"--I'd live in the 'hood)----if I get the Weatherby or Browning---they will be getting the triple-ought steel wool treatment.
1. Red Label----currently the front runner.
Pros---American made---solid feel---easy opening---satin finished stock---stainless receiver---mechanical trigger----overall better looking than the others.
Cons----heavier weight----floating rib.
2. Weatherby Orion
Pros---light weight------decent wood---comes up well----Briley chokes-----and lowest priced of all of them.
Cons---foriegn made---an un-nearving "clink" when closed----I don't like the look of the back of the receiver when sighting down the barrel----I know its being picky--but it is my $1000 after all--------------barrel selector in a bad location-----inertia trigger.
3. Browning Citori Lightening
Pros---very good rep--although looking at the action--I'm not all that impressed(just me I guess)----solid feel.
Cons----soft wood(All Brownings have soft wood that can be indented with just a finger nail----have an A-Bolt and BL22 that are bad in this reguard)-----foreign made----inertia trigger-----highest price of all of them.
Really like the Citori 525----but I'm unwilling to spend half again as much for something that will see hard field use.
Which would you choose and why?? OR do you have any suggestions of other models I should be looking at??
Thanks for any help.
OBG
Have kind of narrowed it down to the Ruger Red Label----Weatherby Orion---and Browning Citori Lightening. Beretta stocks are too long for me---so pretty much out of the running----the others seem to fit me OK.
These are within a few hundred $$ of each other---so cost isn't much of a factor in the final selection.
Also---I HATE shiney stocks(if I wanted to be "pimped out"--I'd live in the 'hood)----if I get the Weatherby or Browning---they will be getting the triple-ought steel wool treatment.
1. Red Label----currently the front runner.
Pros---American made---solid feel---easy opening---satin finished stock---stainless receiver---mechanical trigger----overall better looking than the others.
Cons----heavier weight----floating rib.
2. Weatherby Orion
Pros---light weight------decent wood---comes up well----Briley chokes-----and lowest priced of all of them.
Cons---foriegn made---an un-nearving "clink" when closed----I don't like the look of the back of the receiver when sighting down the barrel----I know its being picky--but it is my $1000 after all--------------barrel selector in a bad location-----inertia trigger.
3. Browning Citori Lightening
Pros---very good rep--although looking at the action--I'm not all that impressed(just me I guess)----solid feel.
Cons----soft wood(All Brownings have soft wood that can be indented with just a finger nail----have an A-Bolt and BL22 that are bad in this reguard)-----foreign made----inertia trigger-----highest price of all of them.
Really like the Citori 525----but I'm unwilling to spend half again as much for something that will see hard field use.
Which would you choose and why?? OR do you have any suggestions of other models I should be looking at??
Thanks for any help.
OBG