jonthebrit

Afternoon, My daughter and I have taken up clay shooting and while I'm waiting on the verdict of our SGC application I've been looking at and trying to use prospective guns to see which ones fit the bill. I'd pretty much come to the conclusion that my daughter would be using a 20 gauge, probably beretta, due to the weight of the 12 gauge offerings. She's actually pretty good with a 20g but our instructor threw a curve ball at us last weekend and bought out the Benelli 828U 12g for her to try for a change. First off I thought it looked pretty hateful but it was so very light. My daughter actually liked the look and feel so she gave it a go even though she was a little nervous of the larger cartridge. During the lesson we were also trying to get away from pre-mounting the shotgun (so were tackling something new to us anyway) so expected to do a little worse than usual. Instead she did really, really well with it. Larger pattern or just a better feel with the gun? Dunno. I did a search on here and there was a thread from last year but rather than resurrect that I thought I should start a new one. Anyone any experience of this gun? Issues or the practicalities of cleaning etc? How does it compare with the ultralight offering from Beretta? The Browning cynergy offering looks to be at least 1lb heavier. Is that their only lighter weight 12g offering? Thanks for the help!

I'm in for an SGC grant with Northumbria Police. Different certificate I suppose and so far I'm only three weeks in so not heard anything (as you'd expect). I'll update if and when I hear anything if that helps?

I use these ear defenders too. Excellent at the price. I did once get phone interference on them ... from my own phone while I was using it. Never at any other time.

Thumbs up for Bywell from me also. Me and my daughter have been going for few weeks now and it's always very friendly and helpful. If only there were more days in the weekend....