HRT
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Well Monday morning I picked up a new CZ Bobwhite in 28 Ga. This is my first purpose built small frame 28 ga shot gun. Shot a fair number of tubed or 4 barrel 12 ga over the years though. First the appearance, fairly nice figure on the butt stock and splinter foreend, finished in a low gloss oil? maybe. Checkering is not sharp but certainly useable. Wood to metal is tight but the wood stands a little proud of the steel. The psuedo casehardening and engraving on the receiver is reasonably attractive. Twin triggers are relatively crisp and I would guess 5 or so pounds. All told the shotgun is attractive with nicely blued barrels. The stock is a touch short for me (6'4" 240 #) but not obnoxiously so with a relatively light kicker like the 28. Should be about right once sweaters and jackets go on come December/January Woodcock and rabbit. Being a light gun the shot gun shoulders well and the comb height is about right for me. Being light it forces to consciously swing on the full deflection shots.
Now the shooting stuff...After a quick squirt of Rem Oil on the trunions and other moving parts in the action it was off to the back 40 for some target work. The ammunition was WW AA HS with 3/4 oz of 7.5 shot @ an advertised 1300 fps. First off I will say that the recoil while not bad was sharper than expected, my reference being 12 ga receivers with tubes or 28 ga barrels. The targets were hand thrown birds ranging from rabbits to sprining teal. I can claim a solid hit with the first shot fired from the shotgun. I was shooting with the IC choke tube in the rt barrel and the Modified tube in the left. By the end of the session I had fired 2 boxes of shells and had scored hits on approximately 2/3 of the birds thrown. All shots were taken from low gun. I can safely say that I did not miss anything I thought I should have hit and made some second shot hits with the mod barrel as well as some kills on the cripples and barely marked bird from the first shot.
Minuses on the shotgun...It would be nice to have ejectors or the option of them in lieu of extractors only. I need a new choke tube case to tote the tiny choke tubes.
Plusses....Seems like a good shotgun for a reasonable price. Shoots passably close to where I'm swinging. Is lightning fast and just plain fun to shoot and handle. I like the instant selection of choke options with twin triggers. The safety is not self resetting, my 12 ga OU skeet gun has the safety blocked.
After a good cleaning, barrells cleaned very easily, and some tetra gun grease on all the moving stuff action is somewhat smoother.
Now the shooting stuff...After a quick squirt of Rem Oil on the trunions and other moving parts in the action it was off to the back 40 for some target work. The ammunition was WW AA HS with 3/4 oz of 7.5 shot @ an advertised 1300 fps. First off I will say that the recoil while not bad was sharper than expected, my reference being 12 ga receivers with tubes or 28 ga barrels. The targets were hand thrown birds ranging from rabbits to sprining teal. I can claim a solid hit with the first shot fired from the shotgun. I was shooting with the IC choke tube in the rt barrel and the Modified tube in the left. By the end of the session I had fired 2 boxes of shells and had scored hits on approximately 2/3 of the birds thrown. All shots were taken from low gun. I can safely say that I did not miss anything I thought I should have hit and made some second shot hits with the mod barrel as well as some kills on the cripples and barely marked bird from the first shot.
Minuses on the shotgun...It would be nice to have ejectors or the option of them in lieu of extractors only. I need a new choke tube case to tote the tiny choke tubes.
Plusses....Seems like a good shotgun for a reasonable price. Shoots passably close to where I'm swinging. Is lightning fast and just plain fun to shoot and handle. I like the instant selection of choke options with twin triggers. The safety is not self resetting, my 12 ga OU skeet gun has the safety blocked.
After a good cleaning, barrells cleaned very easily, and some tetra gun grease on all the moving stuff action is somewhat smoother.
