Is a $100,000 gun better than a $20,000 gun?! $3,000 will get you good craftsmanship, albeit a plain Jane, but the scroll work won't increase your break percentage.

My 90T, built by Kolar, is my high dollar gun... I've owned for 17 years no malfunctions... the gun is now 27 years old...

Affordability is relative to your station in life

 

I'm going to need Extra Butter for this one😁😎

 

 

I don't know about other ppl, but for me, I feel more comfortable and swing with better balance shooting MX8 than CG Summit or Rizzini.

 

SImple,

Do you want to drive a Ford Fiesta or a Ford GT? A Chevy Vega or a Cadillac? ETC, ETC. All will get you where you are going. It all depends on what floats your boat! 😆

 

Speaking of boats I run a Tracker Targav V-18WT but I keep getting told I should have bought a Lund...5 years later and only one minor warranty issue with my front livewell how much better would it have been had I ordered a Lund??

 

Might as well make it the high priced spread.

 

Think prestige, the envy of other shooters and lots of chicks.

 

Don't even think that. Think 2,000,000 rounds with a gun you love to shoot and will for the next 20 years. And after all that shooting, you will be able to sell it for what you paid for it if you take care of it.

 

the reason i did the high $ gun was because "they last longer"!
when i was shooting over 10,000 targets a year(which was a lot for me), i wanted my Kolar to last for the duration etc

 

We all like to have nice things in life, and I have my fair share of firearms but my whole arsenal cost less than most of the high end O/Us.

So what exactly are you paying for with a Koler, Perazzi, or Krieghoff? I certainly love to window shop but I'd be scared to death to take it out of the case if I spent that much on a shotgun.

Thanks

It is to me. Can’t answer or speak for anyone else.

 

It won't shoot THAT much better but will feel THAT much better.

But a custom stock will likely make you actually shoot better.

 

Only negative thing about a 20,000 dollar gun is it being sold for 500 dollars by your survivors after you die, but then you won’t care.

 

Only negative thing about a 20,000 dollar gun is it being sold for 500 dollars by your survivors after you die

$500.00? No way!

Mrs. Barker and I already have a deal in place for $350.00 for your guns.

She wanted $1500.00 for your high heel shoe collection but I passed. Haversham, however, has an interest.

 

Typically higher dollar guns are built by craftsmen, hand fitting, better fit and finish, barrel regulation, etc.

 

If you believe that I’ve got some land for sale.

 

Yes,a $15-20000 gun is better built, more hand fitting, etc than a $3000 gun.
Will it break more targets for you (if the stocks fit)- NO!!!
A lot of us shoot very expensive guns because we appreciate the artistry of hand engraving and beautiful wood.
Some of us worked our asses off for a long time and now that we are retired and aging, we choose to enjoy what we put aside while we still can....
Some get enjoyment looking at big bank/stock statements and some of us like to go out and shoot "D Class" scores with a work of art!!!
Paul in Virginia

 

well said--COULDNT AGREE MORE--GREAT POST

 

We all like to have nice things in life, and I have my fair share of firearms but my whole arsenal cost less than most of the high end O/Us.

So what exactly are you paying for with a Koler, Perazzi, or Krieghoff? I certainly love to window shop but I'd be scared to death to take it out of the case if I spent that much on a shotgun.

Thanks

It's OK to shoot what you can afford. No one cares besides you.

 

Silly question. The answer is obvious. Next we'll surely have someone post asking if it is nicer to live in a tiny house or kick back in the living quarters of your $2 billion estate.

 

The answer to your title question is no. A $3,000 gun with the adjustable features you need to get an acceptable gun fit a for a consistent mount and your preferred POI will post the same scores as a $20,000 gun.

Comparisons to car and boats is just nonsense in regards to that. They have inherent performance variables. A gun is like a hammer whether it's a $5.00 hammer or a $35.00 hammer you still have to hit the nail.

Now beauty, quality of materials, durability, prestige/satifaction of ownership, etc. are different discussions and aren't what you asked about in you title but can be answered to the different question you posed in your post.

 

The answer to your title question is no. A $3,000 gun with the adjustable features you need to get an acceptable gun fit a for a consistent mount and your preferred POI will post the same scores as a $20,000 gun.

Comparisons to car and boats is just nonsense in regards to that. They have inherent performance variables. A gun is like a hammer whether it's a $5.00 hammer or a $35.00 hammer you still have to hit the nail.

Now beauty, quality of materials, durability, prestige/satifaction of ownership, etc. are different discussions and aren't what you asked about in you title but can be answered to the different question you posed in your post.

I'd have to agree here. Many of us I'm sure have watched guysnuse an ol 870 and keep right up with the 5k+$ gun users. It all about what fits good and feels right and what works for the shooter

 

There’s a difference. How much you pay for that difference? That’s certainly debatable. Many, clearly, find paying that difference palatable. Beyond the base grade, obviously, it’s all aesthetics. Some people, myself included, like pretty things. Functional art.

 

@JBrooks ...exactly. You can't compare a machine with thousands of moving parts to a shotgun with about 12 moving parts, none of which are moving thousands of times an hour.

At the risk of upsetting certain elements on here, my Turkish Yildiz (admittedly more than 3k USD, but less than that down here) clocked up 50 000 shots recently. It has got me 2 state championships, an Australian team and not a single FTF or other problem, apart from a poorly applied finish (rectified by me) and a rubbish case (rectified by Negrini).

Old guy down here recently went from a Miroku to a P. His scores have decreased, although as he says "I look better when I miss..."

I still lust after other guns, but mostly old model Browning Broadways or English SxS.....

 

At the risk of upsetting certain elements on here, my Turkish Yildiz

 

I shot the wheels off a Bt99 plus and looked good doing it. Then I became a (Legend in my own mind) and said I need a KX6S. Now people think I stole off the rack LOL. I am lucky enough to be able to do it thanks to a very understanding wife!

 

Yes. But I buy used .

 

After two dorbombay's posts I forgot what was the OP's question. LOL

 

You have to shoot them to tell the differences. That's if you can tell.
If you can't feel the differences, you're lucky, stay with the cheaper one.

 

You might break just as many with a cheaper gun, but will you for as long?

 

How long you talkin? 25 years? That's a long time.

Even the $3000 browning or beretta are supposed to last a lifetime, aren't they? At the $3000 level, do the guns really wear out to the point where they must be replaced?

 

You might break just as many with a cheaper gun, but will you for as long?

 

There's alot of AA27AA shooters out there. Some probably got there with a fairly inexpensive gun. Some probably did it with very expensive guns. It only matters to the one shooting it.