Hunting shotguns: New products, tests, experience reports

Virtual SHOT Show 2021 / New from FAIR: Iside Prestige De Luxe side-by-side shotgun now available in all the most popular hunting gauges, from 12ga to the small .410 bore. A real "Italian style" shotgun, classic and elegant, but with all the technology and features hunters are looking for these days. Let's take a look.

This is the aluminum action frame version of the over-and-under shotgun that Browning proposes to hunters looking for a gun featuring all the most modern technical solutions. It is built with a great deal of hand-fitting – but you won't have to spend a lot of money to purchase it.

A hunting day with pointing dogs in the Po Valley, Italy, trying the 20-gauge F.A.I.R. Iside Prestige side-by-side, an elegant, sturdily built, easy-to-swing shotgun. A perfect a marriage between classic and modern, it features a single selective trigger and is available in three different barrel lengths – 26 3/4”, 28” and 30” (68 cm, 71 cm and 76 cm).

A Fausti shotgun does not come into a hunter's gun closet by chance. Usually, a custom-made firearm is created at the request of those hunters who would like to have a unique piece, both for its technical features and the detail aesthetics that make the difference for an enthusiast.

For those who are waiting for or looking for wild game pushed by dogs in the woods, driven hunting requires compact and handy shotguns for instinctive shooting. At the same time, the guns must be rugged and effective enough to deal with this type of environment. Here we are talking about some over/under models designed by F.A.I.R. for these hunting situations.

There are very few guns that can be considered unique. The Cosmi semi-auto is definitely one of them. Born out of a brilliant intuition, it gives the impression of having in your hands not just a beautiful and complex object as far as design and workmanship are concerned, but also a piece of history that has evolved without ever losing sight of its origins. We visited for you the recently …

Let's discover in detail the Fausti Four Locks system with an explanation by those who patented this multiple-locking system for competition and hunting over/under shotguns – a guarantee of quality and sturdiness.

Manufactured by Turkish Akkar, the Churchill 812 Field O/U shotgun is designed for hunting as well as clay target shooting. Look is quite classic, with a standard checkered walnut stock and forend, steel receiver, vented rib and fiber optic front sight. Thanks to an interesting price, it is perfect as an entry gun.

Hunting waterfowl with a shotgun is a mastery in itself. With the Affinity 3 Elite Bronze, Franchi has the right tool for the job. But what makes the Italian self-loading shotgun so special? all4hunters.com tells you.

With an online event and the slogan "the beauty of the perfect shot", Beretta introduced the new 687 Silver Pigeon III over/under to the international hunting audience. It incorporates all the most advanced features of Beretta's guns and is available in 12, 20, 28 gauge and .410 bore.

A shotgun especially designed for sporting clays with all the right features sought by shooters, including a perfect balance and an adjustable stock: we tested the F.A.I.R. Racing Sporting over/under on the field and here on all4shooters.com we tell you what happened. Watch our video too!

The Italian company offers a semi-automatic 12-gauge hunting shotgun with 3” (Magnum) chamber featuring a simple and reliable action, capable of handling quiet or very powerful loads with the utmost ease. The aesthetics are also pleasantly retro and will certainly be appreciated by those who love more classic shotguns.

The cleaning of a semiautomatic shotgun must necessarily be more accurate and frequent than with a break-action shotgun, especially if you want a perfect cycling over time. It takes certainly longer, but it's not difficult if we know how to do that and if we have good products and simple tools – most of which are also available at home.

It's part of the F.A.I.R. Classic series: the De Luxe model is a light over/under shotgun featuring pleasant lines. It's a light gun too: total weight ranges from 5.7 lb/2.6 kg for the 12-gauge model to 5 lb/2.3 kg for the smaller gauges - including the .410 bore showed here. This makes it the ideal gun even for walked-up hunts with pointing dogs.

A series of exclusive and numbered over/unders with which the Fausti sisters wanted to give a different face to their luxury shotguns with a link to art and history. The series is called Brixian in homage to the Italian city of Brescia, and the model is the Vittoria Alata (“Winged Victory”).

After a short forced break, our series of videos to discover shotguns and their technical aspects continues. In this video, Antonio Poli briefly tells us the differences between monobloc and demibloc/chopper lump barrels.