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A few guns to consider for the new/young trap shooters

mac1911

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I have a few guns that make the list for new shooters and small frame shooters looking for a shotgun for trap.

The Beretta 3901 reduced length is the most adjustable out of the box semi auto in the less than 1000.00 range. It also is easily adapted to growth with spacers, stocks and barrels.

The Browning BPS trap and micro trap pumpaction. Again you can be easily changed out with stocks and barrels for larger or smaller shooters.

Almost any reminton 1100/1187/870 can be set up with a host of stocks and barrels.

Older browning citori trap models and also the older charles daily clones. look hard enough these can be found in the 500-800 range. although barrel length and stock set up is a bit more limited.

The guns above can easily recoup investment with little loss if you need to upgrade or bail out cause you lost interest.

Again you can spend a ton of money on custom stocks, crazy high ribs, counter weights
 
IMO, maker, style and action are secondary.

No fit, no hit. The gun has to fit both physically (appropriate length of pull, and weight, as well as comb height) and mentally - if the gun feels off to the shooter, they'll not have the requisite "confience" in the gun to concentrate on the bird, as opposed to the recoil.

Much of this is subjective - our club has some H&R single barrels, and many of our shooters like them. Personally, I don't. It's a "feel" thing.

The comments above about the adjustable stocks in an excellent one - "one size fits all" is not reality. My 11 y.o. shoots a full-sized Winchester, and does it well. Others would have problems.

Best bet is to try, try, try.
 
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