Author Topic: Browning Citori Superlight Feather-12 (Read 794 times)

barrelswell · « **on:** February 11, 2004, 02:22:22 PM »

I apologize if this post is a bit redundant, but I didn't see anything specifically addressing this topic. I'm looking pretty serioulsy at a Superlight Feather for long days in pursuit of pheasants in S.D. Anyone have any insight one way or the other on this particular model? They are a pleasure to look at, but I have never visited with an owner. Thanks

Graybeard · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2004, 05:08:06 PM »

Never had one of that model but have owned several Citoris. Solid guns. Really the same mechanical design as the Superposed, just made in Japan.

GB

barrelswell · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2004, 05:36:49 PM »

I don't figure I can go wrong with a Browning. My Dad and I have owned many over the years and have never been let down. My only mechanical difficulties were the result of operator error.
I wonder about the punch at my end when shooting a gun that weighs only 6lbs 4oz. I am a pretty big fellow, so maybe I shouldn't worry.

Thanks for the reply, GB :grin:

GBO MGMT · « **Reply #3 on:** February 12, 2004, 05:16:51 AM »

Oh I'm sure recoil is going to be substantial if you use the heavy loads. But one ounce loads shouldn't be bad at all. Back in the days when I was a boy that's about the only load that was available to me was an ounce of shot. Worked fine back then and still does today really.

Recoil management really isn't a matter of size. Some small folks handle it much better than some real large folks. It is all in perception. Well unless you have a right shoulder that needs rotator cuff surgery like mine. Then it ain't just perception. It really hurts.

GB

Ka6otm · « **Reply #4 on:** February 12, 2004, 05:39:12 AM »

I have the same gun in an earlier version, the Superlight. Same straight stock, schnabel forend and weighs about 6 pounds in 20 gauge.

It's my Pheasant gun of choice as I can carry it all day without feeling like my arm is going to fall off at the end of the day.

I never feel recoil when shooting at a pheasant. That's normal for me and I suspect for a lot of other folks too. And, I shoot 1 oz. loads from the lower barrel and 1-1/8 oz loads from the top barrel.

But..when I shoot two rounds of trap with it I get a shoulder bruise that has to be seen to be believed. Of course, that's my fault as I kept the plastic butt pad and didn't put on a recoil pad as I felt it would detract from the clean lines of the gun.

So buy the gun, don't worry about recoil and you won't regret it.

Ka6otm

barrelswell · « **Reply #5 on:** February 12, 2004, 06:26:58 PM »

Well that gun is sounding better all of the time. I have really never been bothered by the recoil of anything I've ever shot, except maybe the time Dad's A5 knocked me over a stump, but I was only 5 at the time. As long as it doesn't kick like my father-in-law's 416 Rigby I think I can handle it for a round or two or a day in the field.

I appreciate your responses, fellas. Now that I am feeling better about recoil, have you seen any used ones for sale at a reasonable price lately?