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The same week I acquired my old Krieghoff Model 32 Skeet, still untried, I sealed the deal on a 1970 Browning Superposed shotgun. Belgian-made. Yes, top-dead-center salt wood era, but the seller was gracious enough to have his gunsmith take all the wood off and photograph the underlying metal for my inspection, and to have it cleaned and greased for my use since it was basically in pieces . Result: Not a single pit attributable to NaCl.
I've shot the thing over the past two weekends, and tied my personal best at Skeet twice with it, including today, during my third of four rounds. I was remarkably consistent with it today; not used to that kind of standard deviation of scores, given a new-to-me game, and a new-to-me shotgun.
26-inch tubes, 12-gauge, choked Skeet and Skeet, pistol-grip, big fat beavertail, mid-rib bead worn flat, but that honking-great white front bead's still there.
The metal fitting on the action parts is... Well, It's like I'm shooting a 12-gauge Rolex watch. They did just enough, and the damned thing just works.
What a well-made, brutally-elegant shotgun. Makes the Citori Hunter demo I tried in summer 2022 seem like a telephone pole.
Distillation: It's transparent. Never thought about the shotgun, but only about destroying the porcelain pigeons.
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Yeeeee Hawwww
What a joyful report
Thanks
Mike
USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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I have had several Superposed shotguns, both 12 and 20 and they are fantastic guns!! Probably one of the greatest guns ever made, in my opinion. Have a great time with it and good luck!! You've got a winner!!
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I actually went the other direction I bought a 1955 superposed 12 ga it's a great gun but I didn't shoot it very well I bought a k32 and I just shot better then added adjustable k80 wood and it made me bored with trap
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Years ago, my friend bought a 30” Superposed 12 gauge on a lark, I think it was $800 at the time, and looked NIB. We both shot a round of trap with it, although I was fairly unimpressed with the gun, but, that changed after I ran the field with it, something that I hadn’t done prior with a gun first time out. Haven’t done anything like that since, either.
He still has it, pretty sure it hasn’t been fired since. I don’t want it, but, my attitude toward it got a serious readjustment after that day.
Best,
Ted
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...I was fairly unimpressed with the gun, but, that changed after I ran the field with it.... Made me smile.
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Be very, very careful!! Those low priced 12-gauge Superposeds suck you in, then you want the 20- & 28-gauges and .410-bores and they don't come cheap!! ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/Pz4NXQt.jpg)
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I'd love to find a 28-gauge for sale up here. It'd be a good excuse for me to start a new career in bank robbery.
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Bank robber / collector… ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/UBSQBek.png)
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I have a Citori 16 gauge with 26" barrels. I quite liked the gun and shot it reasonable well, given that I rarely shoot other than SxS.
Then I acquired a Superposed 20 gauge with 26" barrels from about 1954. Ever since then, my Citori feels like a club and the Superposed feels like guns are supposed to feel like. LOL
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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