Clay shotguns: expert reviews and buying advice for every level
The right clay gun can transform your shooting. Whether you’re stepping onto a sporting layout for the first time or chasing your next classification breakthrough, the gun in your hands makes a difference – and choosing well is where we come in.
Sporting Gun’s clay shotgun section delivers independent reviews, head-to-head comparisons and practical buying advice across the full range of guns available to UK clay shooters. From affordable entry-level over-and-unders to finely engineered competition guns used at the highest levels of the sport, our experienced reviewers assess balance, handling, trigger quality, reliability and value to give you a verdict worth reading.
Brands covered include Beretta, Browning, Caesar Guerini, Perazzi, Krieghoff, Miroku and Rizzini, across Sporting, Skeet and Trap configurations.
Find your perfect clay gun. Then go break some targets.
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Simon O'Leary takes a break from teaching us about target presentations to sit down with GMK Ltd's Karl Waktare to learn about the Beretta World
This episode of Clay Shooter TV explains how to correct your own misses, and features a Yildiz Pro review and Fiocchi's F Black on test!
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Episode 2 of Clay Shooter TV features a tutorial on how to shoot going away targets, and reviews of the Zoli One and B&P's Sporting & Compak fibre Green Core cartridge.
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