30" barrels or 32"??

T-Spark

Hi everybody, Im planning on upgrading my Medallist 28" O/U and Iv kind of settled on what I want... the problem being what barrel length would be best and what advantage do they give? I hunt alot but the clays are defo the primary gun work and what Iv read of late is the longer the better!! I know of one guy who has 34" barrels with extended chokes and swears by them, but I want a gun not a canon! Any advice or experience would be really appreciated!

bunny shooter

Had a fabarm sporter with 30" barrels that I seldom used for hunting as I found the overall gun length too long. I t was excellent on long range shots though.

cavan shooter

I shoot with a 30" sporter, I settled on that length after playing around with 32" aswell. I would say 30" out of personal preference

T-Spark

hmmm, so keep it compact for the rough shooting?? Issue arises beacause the clay shooting is gonna get increased attention come the summer time, got really hooked on the sport of late! Bunny did you just have the fabarm for clays then??

bunny shooter

I used the fabarm solely for clays. I had a side by side for game.

However, recently I surrendered 1 of my shotgun licences to get another rifle licence, a story documented elsewhere on Boards, Now I have bought a second hand beretta ulrika semi-auto sporter that is light enough that is should be ok for game use also

T-Spark

Cheers Bunny! yeh im starting to reconsider trading in my current gun at all in the light of that information! might be the clever thing to do...... (apart from the extra cash prob now needed!) :eek: