BLINKING GOOD!
Semi-auto shotguns are not everyone’s taste. They clunk, they clang, and they eject the empty shells everywhere. On the plus side, however, they are really quite pointable and relatively easy to use – I even have one myself! Mine is an old Beretta Teknys Gold. I bought it a fair few years ago to shoot the semi-auto competitions which were originally held at West London. What fun these competitions are! John Dyson holds one every year. There are 120 targets, which can be report pairs with ‘full use of gun’ – which means that you load three shells, and can take two shots at the first target.
“Personally I think there’s an element of snobbery around semi-autos in the UK.”
You have to remember that once you have fired your first shot, the ref will send the second target. If you decide to shoot twice at the first target, that second bird is already on its way, and will not be in the place you thought
