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Tristar shotguns??
Anyone here shoot a tristar? I just won a 20 GA O/U with interchangable chokes--never heard of the brand. Gun looks nice--some fancy etching work on both sides of the typical quail/pheasant flushes. Satmped "Made in Spain" distributed through K.C. MO Gun is a little on the heavy side fit and finish is okay.
May break it in on the Clays course--just wondering if anyone has any good/bad exp. with the brand?
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11-07-2007, 07:14 AM
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Never heard of it. Made in Spain? I wonder who the manufacturer is.
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There is a search engine called of all things... google...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=tristar+shotgun lots of info 
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11-07-2007, 08:36 AM
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Yeah--I read up about them on their site, I was looking for some real-world opinions from anyone who has used them in the field.
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11-07-2007, 08:46 AM
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I shot one last week during our (pun intended) ATF get together. While not one of the "premier" brands I liked it. It was a 20 gauge o/u. Fit and finish were nice, well balanced and never had a miss-fire.
I bought a Stoeger shotgun last year for my son. Same class of gun and it has been great. Me personally, I like average field guns that I don't worry too much about. YMMV
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I'm a little leery of cheap Spanish guns. It seems they are about where the cheap Italian guns were twenty or thirty years ago. Most I have inspected didn't even strike me as particularly safe to shoot, but maybe they have improved. Fancy engraving on a cheap gun is often used to disguise the fact that it is a cheap gun. It will be machine done, or cast into the investment castings anyway. It's cheaper to do that than to make a quality gun.
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I'm tempted to shoot my Tristar by now. I'm doing a full brake job on it, and the rust is making it impossible to loosen anything.
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update..sort of. Took the gun to my father's house since I already have (2) 20 GA O/U. He looks at the box, goes into the gun safe and pulls out the exact same gun--I won the my Tristar in the sponsors' raffle at a Ruffed Grouse Society dinner last week. Turns out the year before he won the same raffle at the same dinner and yes, the same gun.
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