I don't have that opinion of English guns, but so many of the ones you see for sale are game guns and not heavy enough for continuous targeting, IMO. Give me a 8 lb.+ waterfowler, stocked properly for targets, and I could be happy with it for lots of clays

IMO once again, the other issue is not that they are necessarily fragile, but when a part DOES break you will spend big bucks having a custom made part fabricated by a master gunsmith, and waiting no telling how long to get it. That's just not an ideal situation to place one's self in when you are depending on a gun for competition.

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