Quote Originally Posted by Aloha_Shooter View Post
Both. Have you ever shot competition? There's a limit to what even the best competitor can do ... the equipment helps enhance their talent. A crappy shooter is still going to be all over the place if I give them a $2500 Anschutz and a good shooter will still shoot reasonably well if I hand them a Henry lever action in a 3-position smallbore match but a good shooter needs a competition-level instrument like a Remington 40X, Winchester 52, or Kimber 82 to at least get in the running (and many will opt for highly customized rifles to seal the deal).
Ya... I'm talking about over under shotguns.... not rifles. A set up $750 shotgun will shoot the exact same way a $10,000 Perazzi will. You can make it have the same barrel length, same choke, same grip, same pattern, shoot the same for all intensive purposes. The metal work, and the name will be the difference. Pretty doesn't mean better for competition though. Those people have those damn nice guns because they can, and no other reason. If the thought of having "the best" or prettiest helps them psychologically, so be it I guess. That's all I was saying...