I have spent my life, it seems, buying and selling Citoris and Berettas. My favorites were always the Berettas; I almost always shoot the Citoris better. I always hunt with Berettas if using an O/U. Citoris have the weight and fit in the target models for me to shoot well. My sleeper of the bunch was a 425 Special Sporting that I shot better than any shotgun I ever owned; I stupidly sold it. The 12 Citori to me is way to heavyto carry in the field. The Citori in the subgauges are way to heavy in any form to justify. The only ones I like are the 16 ga lighter weight models. I see no advantage to carrying a 7 lb 28 ga just to say I am hunting with a 28. It is my favorite gauge and I have found that a very long and light 28 will shoot well and carry well, with the benefit of lighter shells. Past that, I will choose a 5-1/2 to 6# 20 ga over the 28. I have owned many more Berettas than Brownings but strangely enough have not bought a new Beretta in a couple of decades. I simply think that around the time that they changed their engraving techniques, the engraving quality fell through the floor and the prices skyrocketed. In the seventies even the field model carried a small amount of quality hand engraving and was an honest value. Now I always look in the used market and enjoy them more. I have Berettas from the early thirties through the mid 80's and like them all. I have sidelocks, field guns, double triggers and any number of other variations. All are accurate, durable, beautiful and shoot well.
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