If you want Browning specifically, you can get this one and save a bit, although this model does come in a 10 Gauge option at other stores for the same price so I would just get that for novelty of it:
http://www.basspro.com/Browning-BPS-Sta … 308081032/The 870 Express is hard to beat for value though, that's why I bought one. $330 and there's a $50 rebate going on right now:
http://www.basspro.com/Remington-Model- … /10217887/You could even buy the fancy laminated stock, polished receiver, chromed bolt-toting 870 Wingmaster and still save quite a bit over that Browning you picked:
http://www.cabelas.com/product/Remingto … 327081.utspirana6 wrote:
Wait I've only ever shot pigeons with a pump-action. I thought that was the rules of skeet shooting. Every youtube vid of professions skeet shooters is w/ a pump.
Where were you looking?
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ … t+shootingMost of them are using a double barrel over-under or a semiautomatic shotgun. Pump shotguns are a really fun challenge and the cheapest pumps are way cheaper than the cheapest of break-actions and semis but in actual competition they would put you at a huge disadvantage over the other two
The over-under allows for a quick semi-automatically delivered couple of shots just like you would ideally want for skeet since you're only ever shooting two targets in the air at most. You can also get fancy and put two different chokes in each barrel so you have an open choke for closer range on the first shot and a slightly tighter choke on the 2nd barrel to narrow the spread and catch the 2nd clay which gained some distance while you were shooting at the first.
Semi shotguns are also a good choice. They're more versatile if you also hunt or shoot in other clay games that allow more shots at a time, but for skeet you're only allowed to load two at a time even in a gun that can hold more(we got yelled at for loading 4 shells at stations where you had to shoot two singles and a double). Some people don't like the idea of firing from two different barrels because no matter what, one is still firing from an ever so slightly different position than the other and sometimes one will have different characteristics and I think even some barrel harmonics are involved too, so they'll get a semi instead to keep it simple. Semiautomatic shotguns also use part of the recoil to cycle the action so they don't kick as hard either, giving you slightly quicker target acquisition for the 2nd clay and less of a sore shoulder at the end of the day.
A lot of semis look just like pumps with really long slides(which on a semi is just a handle), maybe that's what you saw:
Remington 870 Wingmaster (Pump Action)
Remington 1100 (Semi-automatic)