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I haven't owned or shot a Perazzi since I sold my Heidimarie Hiptmeyer engraved Mirage a couple of decades ago. I think I got about $3500 for it. Today, it would probably bring $12000 to $15000. I would like to know where it is today. I shot it for quite a while before I realized it was a left handed gun. The cast on made it very difficult to lift my head.

Heidi Hipmeyer was an incredibly talented Engraver who trained in Belgium and did most of her work in Quebec. I am fortunate to have a Ruger Red Label that she engraved and her husband Klaus did the stockwork.

I am going to shoot one Saturday. CG is having a tent deal at Bald Mountain.

I’ll run a round of FITASC and see how it points.

When shooting FITASC I follow Ben Hustwaite’s example. That is, use a bayonet mount on the nose of the target and then most of the time just do a small pull or push away.

A gun that is lively and points crisply is a benefit in that shooting style. You need that acceleration to the nose of the bird.

Faulds is a very minimal gun movement competitor. He makes everything look smooth and graceful. so it will be interesting to see if his design works well when using the bayonet style mount.

If you want a pro level clays gun and got the cash look at Silver Seitz

Calgary Bill, Klaus stocked my Perazzi also. Where is it today? It is pictured in an early Gun Digest in the "Engraving" section.

Uh, no.
JR

Had been thinking about a 20 ga, 32 inch, with an adjustable comb as a clays/dove gun. Went with a C. Guerini. Jaquas treated me well. Wanted double triggers. And auto safety is my preference. Jaquas handled all the shipping, etc. Am sure a 12 ga Guerini would do you well.

That should be a sweet gun, Tim. Thirty-two inch barreled 20 ga. O/Us can be magical. As I have said before Guerini and Zoli stock their guns too high for me, off the shelf. But, Beretta doesn't, for some reason. Anyway, if I could make it shoot flat it sounds like it would be an awesome dove gun. My 20 ga. dove O/U has 30" barrels, not 32s, but I'd love to have one.

So, are you saying that Jaqua's had the gun set up and repaired the way you wanted it? They have (or know) a gunsmith who can do that type of thing? What all did they do? Just asking because I would like to have someone close by who I can drop off my guns to and have repaired if I need some work done. Thanks.

I had a chance to shoot the CG Invictus M-class today. 34” varietal.
I brought along a Miroku MK60 20 bore with 30” tubes for comparison.

I’m really only interested in how they move vis a vis each other.

Technically, I found the CG bolting system interesting. Though it’s probably not worth much to me because my volume isn’t there.
However, being able to adjust forend iron /knuckle tension is fantastic. A brilliant development. Loved that.

It is a very stable fixed choke 12 ga target gun. A very smooth pointing package.

Shooting similar targets with each gun, the Miroku 20 is quicker for certain.

For precision pointing I think over a 200 target afternoon, the CG might come out a few ahead.

But it’s a target gun, so it should.

They had many 34” in stock, but no 32’s.

I ordered a 32” in black with adjustable Comb.
Delivery sometime 1st quarter ‘24.