Everything You Need to Know About AYA Shotguns 

Great comment and super Gun, you ger beter =@/ Great, you don´t get any beter quality Guns for that Money this days. I Woul like to buy a no1 or mabe no 2 in great condition any day! Please let me Know if you Knowit a nice Aya no 1or no 2, in 12, 16 or 20 caliber. Thanks in advance!

Just picked up a AYA Yeoman this week for £195. It’s a magnum version with beaver tail fore end and pistol grip, still has most of its colour case hardening on action. Fantastic value for money and will go bang every time :)

@@beeboop1726 it would be worth double checking on what you've bought. The 3" magnum with pistol grip and beaver tail forend is the " no.3" model and not the Yeoman. However you can sometimes find the Yeoman with the same features but only 2 3/4", 70mm, Chambers. If your gun says Yeoman on it, it is one of the latter and not chambered for 3" cartridges. Check the proof marks.

@@nickhorten97 thanks for the reply Nick, it has 70mm chambers, I was told this is still referred to as a magnum version because of the beaver tail fore end and pistol grip stock, it is a yeoman. It’s from between 1972-1977 according to the serial number. I have emailed AYA to enquire about the specific age and details of this gun however they informed me this costs €50 euro! I thought this service used to be free :(

@@beeboop1726 check the pressure to which it has been proved. It may technically be able to accept the "2 3/4 magnum" cartridge , with severe recoil, but categorically NOT the 3"" cartridge.

That’s age. Recoil comment

Interested in selling?😁

@@johnandreou5680 for the right price

I have AYA Spain shortgun side by side 16 bore, barrel 28"inches, ejectors..

@@rashidchandio8288 Which model? Mine is not a ‘Yoemen’ it is a Matador.

I do try, just sometimes I get wrapped up in trying to relay information, and it all just falls out!

One of my uncles who got me in to upland game shooting had an A y A No.2 in 28 gauge. It was utterly fantastic in every sense of the phrase. He had to have the firing pins replaced in it once but I don't think he had any issues with it other than that. I got to shoot it on many occasions; I even hunted with it a few times, so I fully understand the love people have for them.

Jerrold Shelton Cannot agree more, I believe I was told that when new the gun I now own would’ve cost near 7K. Mine has disk set striker so changing the firing pins are very easy, that is a feature of very high end guns such as the Holland and Holland’s (which I believe the AYAs are a copy of essentially). Value for money is second to none and as you say, there’s a reason everyone rates them highly!

@@DobbsOutdoors Yeah, the strikers on my uncle's were disc-set, too. Easy to swap yourself, IF you have fitted spares to swap. My uncle had to have a gunsmith make new pins because he couldn't get any factory ones at the time. Value for money is indeed second to none, as you say, especially when the things are bought second-hand.

@@jerroldshelton9367 Too brittle or too soft?

@@wholeNwon The firing pins in my uncle's gun? Too brittle, at the time the one broke. Note "at the time the one broke." If I remember the story correctly, my uncle, who was a Korean War veteran, bought that gun shortly after his honorable discharge from the Navy. He had it at least ten years before I was born in the mid 1960's. When you shoot a lot, as my uncle did, I rather imagine that firing pins would be a "wear item" in any firearm. As A y A made them, they were probably fine, but "work hardened" over time and use, perhaps? It was somewhere around 1990 when he had the pins replaced. Only one broke, the one for the more open-choke bore, since that got fired a lot more than the tighter-choke barrel. But he had both pins replaced as a precautionary thing, even though only one of them broke. The one that broke took over four decades to fail in a gun that DIDN"T just get shot during California's fairly long upland game bird season, but got used to break clay frequently, too. My uncle was a firm believer in the idea that shotgun shooting was a "degradable skill" like casting a fly rod and that both were skills that took some time and effort to develop and maintain, and he also believed that one should practice with the gun one hunts, so his A y A No. 2 got shot more than most likely do. Hope that helps. The A y A No.2 was, is, and always will be an heirloom-quality piece of kit in my not so humble opinion; something worthy of aspiration.

Its 11:57 pm in Victoria Australia right now.

That would be a good series

I would enjoy that for a series of cheap to charming.

Losian don’t know if they’ve got one at the moment, after I bought the one they had back in September.

Do you pull the rear trigger first or the front? Bc i know there are some SxS models where the rear trigger will set off both barrels on purpose. Does the aya do this?

@@austinhodalj the aya should not do this, they are made as a sporting gun. There are no advantages shooting game with both barrels at once

Finger trouble

Wow...how old and what condition?

Did not Elderkin & Sons sell Spanish imports named after English counties in the 1970's and 80's?

@@nigelmchugh5541 they had a habit of making them that to appeal to English market lol, for the money they are superbly built really tight fit all round alot are nameless of maker with only proof marks so almost impossible to locate who made them clearly all hand finished etc, alot of the cheaper named Spanish guns use aya side locks aswell

Buckshot yes. Slugs NO, UNLESS the barrel chokes have been opened out to cylinder bore.

All AYA stocks are individually headed up. It will be close but probably not perfect.

I have a rizzini omnium which I picked up for £150 via a friend, its in lovely condition and is a pleasure to use, not many people have bad things to say about a rizzini and its something different to all the other shooters out there with the browning's and berretta's

Bought my yeoman early sixties forty five pounds , sold it for an old Cogswell box lock. Found out when I took to Cogswell and Harrison's shop that it had been restocked and the rib had lifted.

Tried a brand new rizzini in 2018! I was not amused. It was their highest end model... They do have their cult following though.

it will say on the barrels when you dismantle them for example 900kg x 14.5 for the PSI coming in at 13,000 psi

@@Banned_and_Redacted That's the max. service pressure?

@@wholeNwon my understanding is thats what its been rated/tested for if you are in america thats good cause 2 3/4 shells only go up to 11,500 psi due to SAAMI regulations but some AYA are rated at over 17,000 almost everything you need to know will be located on the underside of the barrel you just have to decipher it

@@Banned_and_Redacted Yes and proofing is voluntary here.

We recently had one in and have a forgotten guns in the pipeline

Meaning you will be discussing in the future? I have an opportunity to purchase a nice looking specimen but have no basis/data to determine appropriate pricing. Any resources online to help determine price ranges?

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AYA is made In Eibar in Spain

@@tgsoutdoors thanks

16-03 0262-95 18.5 8cl 1200bars

Send an email to aya@aya-fineguns.com

Churchills are not made by AYA, these are AYA built copies of the Churchill style guns. Just as good to shoot mind.

Churchills was contracted out to AYA ..... i had talked to them....

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I'll stick with my Merkel over any snobby overpriced British gun.