High ribs make more sense to me for trap than sporting but so much of it is just how it works for you. Browning 725 Review by Mike Yardley Manufacturers have a habit of making cosmetic changes to guns and presenting them as new models.
The Browning 725 Sporting 20 gauge delivers high-performance handling perhaps not quite up to a 10000 Perazzi but nonetheless fast responsive and neutral.
Browning 725 sporting review. The key to this quality is careful weight distribution that must be determined before the major component parts of the gun are assembled. Affectionately named Whiz Bang. Thats my gun above.
It is Brownings core platform. Though the version I tested was a field gun the DNA is there for a quality competition gun. Of course this is no big surprisewe are talking about Browning.
Its thinner look is no optical illusion. But I must say I have been more than impressed with the 725. For Sporting clays I would add no weights.
I also thought the 32 20-bore outstanding. The most exciting news in Over Under shotgun land as far as Im concerned is the new Browning 725 Citori series. We are familiar with the 425525 and there has also been a very similar 625 available in the States but this gun represents a new generation of Brownings.
Though there is a bit of that in here too which Ill touch on in a moment. Now available in a variety of models for all kinds of shooting disciplines the gun offers improved balance. This months test gun whilst familiar in some respects and showing a clear heritage is an entirely new gun with some interesting indeed novel features.
822014 The Browning B725 Sporter is a wholly new gun and carries a modern look but it isnt a radical departure from what we are used to. 4302016 I have always been a little sceptical about the 725 as I have been a die hard Browning Miroku fan of the older design. 1102020 We learned that the 725 Trap Max will help just about anyone consistently shatter clay birds with ease.
It is from the Browning stable and is called the 725. It will carry Browning forward and prove a popular gun. They have a mechanical selective trigger with manual safety which can be.
Around three-quarters of our viewers are Browning or Beretta owners and they give their guns similar scores for reliability. 922019 I found it steady rather than lively but that can help with holding a line on longer targets and smoothing out those faster closer Sporting targets that encourage a hurried swipe. The Browning 725 Sporting 20 gauge delivers high-performance handling perhaps not quite up to a 10000 Perazzi but nonetheless fast responsive and neutral.
As nearly any trapshooter will tell you Browning shotguns dominate the field at large and small matches from coast to coast in North America including the big daddy of them allthe Grand American. 4182020 The 725 was lower in the action than any previous Browning superposed inspired over-and-under. This months test gun is the new Browning B725 Sporter.
The B725 is the fourth most popular shotgun owned by Fieldsports Channel viewers behind the Beretta Silver Pigeon the Browning B525 and Beretta 686 and ahead of the Beretta 687. Browning launched the B725 at the start of 2010s. It gained an improved trigger mechanism and barrels which were lighter re-profiled and back-bored.
We have a number as demo guns and I have yet to have one repaired. You choose it if you want something more traditional. Browning doesnt rest on its laurels.
2262019 I shoot a 725 low rib but have shot a 725 high rib and prefer the low. Browning guns are favorites in competitive skeet and sporting clays circles and I believe the new 725 wont miss a step in the competition world. 7142020 BROWNING B725 SPORTER - DETAILED TEST.
The old model is a gun of which I was especially fond. The balance point is just ahead of the receiver meaning the weight is evenly distributed between the hands. I have shot clay and game with a 30 version like the test gun featured and it worked brilliantly well.
10152020 The Browning 725 has all the basics in terms of balance and weight distribution to provide a first-rate shotgun for Sporting clays. We experienced the in-line feeling that Browning describes in shooting the 725 Sporting although intuitive is the description that comes to mind when shooting it. 5202013 Browning 725 Sporting Full Review.
792012 Compared with the Citori 625 which Browning rolled out in 2008 the 725 is sleeker in keeping with the trend toward low profile over-and-under actions. I might play with weight and balance for ABT. The B525 is the fifth generation of the B25.
The latest Sporter version featured here would have been introduced at the IWA trade fair in Nuremberg had it not been sadly cancelled due to the corona pandemic. 2222019 The Browning 725 is built in the Miroku factory in Japan. 1282014 We experienced the in-line feeling that Browning describes in shooting the 725 Sporting although intuitive is the description that comes to mind when shooting it.
Dyed-in-the-wool Browning users may raise an eyebrow at this newcomer but theres nothing to fear with it just lots to embrace. The comb of my gun is set at 35-50mm which is half way between sporter and. This review covers the 30 inch 12 gauge 725 Sporting which shares the superb new mechanical triggers in Inflex II recoil pad the Vector-Pro forcing cones the well-figured wood and the Invector DS Double Seal choke tube array all as offered on the 725 Field previously.
There must of course be fixed parameters. It is incredibly well made and rarely has problems. Im guessing its just because it was new to me and I wasnt used to it though.
3162012 However the Browning 725 while familiar in some respects and showing a clear heritage is an entirely new gun with some interesting indeed novel features. This is going to sound ridiculous but since the October purchase of my Browning 725 Sporter I have fallen in love. If youre not willing to read a long winded story about my hunt for the perfect shotgun dont continue.
The gun is solid with a bank vault feel upon closing and well-controlled recoil.
