Nice find. I’m assuming it’s a type 3?

 

Yes 47xxx

 

Looks great!

 

Great find.. Enjoy it for the rest of your life.. Can't tell from the picture. If its Magna Ported you have one of the best porting jobs available. I always liked shooting ported guns at night. Reminds me of the old days when I worked on a nitro dragster.

 

 

As fine a gun as you can buy. Best value on the used market,

 

A friend of mine still shoots a MX8 that was imported by Winchester. Not sure how old that makes it- but he takes good care of it nonetheless. They are a great value.

 

Great looking gun! I have a Mirage, same era I imagine, Ithaca import. Looks very much the same except for the rib. My doubles gun. 32" with Wilkinson fixed chokes .019 & .029
They are indeed a great gun. Congrats!

 

Congrats on your new gun. The more you shoot it the more you will like it.

 

Congrats

 

Yours looks clean buddy, enjoy it forever… probably the best value on a gun as others have stated…

 

I have a 32 inch Mirage bored .024 and .032. I have owned the gun for 32 years and it had fired 100,000 rounds before I bought it according to the previous owner.
It was a little tired and I did a partial rebuild at that time. Many thousand of shells later I had some work done by Giacomo and then I built a new stock and forend for it and now my son in law makes very good use of this great gun. I am sure the older MX8's the best deal on the second hand market. They will last a lifetime of shooting and mine is worth more money than I paid for it.
Devonian.

 

Congrats on your MX8. I also picked up an early Perazzi a few months back. Mine is 1968 MX8 Type 2 imported by Ithaca. It has 29 1/2 inch barrels and the previous owner had Briley Thinwall chokes put in. It’s still a great shooting gun and is in good shape with a tight action. Enjoy shooting your Perazzi. 👍🏻

 

very cool

 

Congrats! I'll doubt I'll ever sell mine. Use it for all disciplines of clays and love it. Mines only 28" barrels which I wish were longer at times, but it's still my favorite gun.

 

That type III MX8 has beautiful CC on the receiver, if you can manage to keep your hands off the finish, the gun will worth more money down the road.

 

very nice

 

Can't go wrong with a MX8. I have a MX8 (Type 3 FE), 32" step rib with Briley thin walls, and a CCH Mirage (Type 4 FE), 28" flat rib with Briley thin walls. MX8 gets used primarily for trap; the Mirage for sporting. MX8 will likely head out to Don Rackley in the next few weeks for a refresh - top lever spring, locking block and catch bolt.

Been telling myself that I should settle on one gun, but can't bring myself to it. If I did I'd probably look for a newer MX8/MX2000 or MX2000S.

 

Great guns. You'll enjoy it. I have two myself.

 

They really are great! I have a beretta semi auto that I shoot too and use for hunting but there's something about shooting an over under lol. have you ever shot steel loads out of yours? I have a range near my house that only allows steel since it is by the water and I was wondering if it would hurt the barrels. Im sure I would have to buy different chokes these brileys that it came with say lead only on them

 

64Tbirds pic brings up something I've been pondering - MX stocks.
Some, such as the stock on the left, have an "open" or conventional grip, whereas the the gun on the right has a more "vertical" or closed grip.
Enlighten me. If one were to order a gun or stock and wanted the "open" grip, how would it be specified or noted. Same question for specifying the "closed".
Is one style of stock prevalent to a particular type of gun, i. e. Sporter, trap, etc.

 

Hello DeanG,
It seems like more and more the trap guns are going to the more vertical or closed grip. On Perazzi USA's website, even the "MX8 Vintage" has the more vertical grip.

I bought both of mine used so I can't tell you if the stocks are factory or not. If I had to guess, I'd say the one on the right is not factory. It's a bit taller from heel to toe and thicker side to side than most other older stocks I see. The one on the left could be a factory stock. It seems to be a bit more slender.

 

64Tbird,
Thanks for the update.
Following my post I was told that the vertical, or closed grip is a 'newer' stock. Might not be the case for your stock as I don't know about any dimensional changes, or when the 'newer' version was introduced.