On test: Browning & Yildiz 20 bores 

How much did you pay

I got mine last week. Cost $500

depends on your application

If the barrel selector switch/safety is dry and stiff the switch "could" result in it being in a half-way position between selecting which hammer to fire. I am of the opinion that if you removed the one bolt and wood stock, then greased 100% of the selector switch mechanism, it likely will work properly. Hope this helps!

@@1captaindad Me getting that shotgun was 5yrs ago... and after immediately having issues... I sold it back. No gun should have issues like that out of the box.

Yildiz very nice,it is the best one

Neil's Angling Reviews have u shot both

I'm one of those "gun snobs" who would once not have ordinarily been too accepting of a Yildiz SPZ ME O/U gun because of "Made in Turkey" and "about $535.00 out the door." My "gun snobbery" goes back to my teens. I wanted a spring piston air rifle when I was 14. It took me two years to save for one. When I got the scratch together, I bought one of the first .20 R-1 rifles that Dr. Robert Beeman imported to the U.S.A. from West Germany, and I wasn't shy about ticking off option boxes for things like super tuning that would make the rifle shoot better, or things like a checkered claro walnut stock and floral engraving on the compression tube that just made it look cool. I bought a 20 gauge Ugartechea Model 30 side by side gun the day I turned 18. The day I turned 21, I spent what was for me a small fortune to get a stainless steel Ruger Old Army percussion revolver. For me, though, it's not about having the most expensive thing; it is about buying the shooter that I really want to shoot and / or hunt with. I love my humble Marlin 336, which my father bought second-hand and gifted to me on my 11th birthday, just as much as I loved the old Griffin and Howe Springfield that I inherited but lost eleven years later when it was destroyed by fire. What I love as much as those two rifles is the little Ruger M77 Ultralight in .250 Savage topped with a Leupold Vari X IIc that I bought new back in 1985. The long-winded point here is that like most people, I like what I like. I would rather get what I really want than settle for something based on price as the prime consideration. The first Yildiz SPZ ME wound up in my household because my son had gone to the sporting course with me and pulled targets for me and decided he wanted a gun so he could shoot the game, too. The people shooting registered targets were all shooting superposed guns, so he knew that's what he wanted. If I still lived in California, where I knew a good shotgun specialist dealer who can make a Beretta fit anybody, I'd have bought my kid a Beretta 68X gun in 28 gauge, had that tweaked to fit him, and got it over with. But living in the epicenter of nowhere far away from competent stock fitting, we needed something that worked "off the rack" in terms of fit, and it needed to be light enough for a small-framed boy to swing, whilst having the ballistics to break every clay he hit while not beating him up in the process. We shopped for over a year, trying out everything. Then we tried a 28 gauge Yildiz SPZ ME and that was the only gun my son had any genuine enthusiasm for. He had a LOT of enthusiasm for it. I wasn't enthused by the brand that I had never heard of, or "Made in Turkey." It seemed like a near clone of an aluminum action F.A.I.R. field gun, but at $535.00 out the door, I figured there had to be a catch. I bought it out of frustration, more than anything, hoping beyond hope that it would last long enough to get the kid hooked on the sporting game, and that I would find some way, down the line, to get a Beretta 68X gun to fit the kid. I bought the gun and two cases of 28 gauge AA ammo. When we got the gun home, I took it apart, lubed it, and put it back together again. It was obviously a machine-made Brescia-action gun rather than some hand-made thing like my Ugartechea was, but it seemed to be properly put together out of decent stuff. The next day, we braved the cold and alternating drizzle and snow flurries to try it out. I shot it first on pattern paper and to my surprise, the barrels were properly regulated. My kid hit the first clay I threw for him..... And the second..... And so on.... I didn't get another turn until he went through three boxes of shells. When I did finally get another turn, I couldn't miss with it. My plans to buy a 28 gauge A y A 4/53 once I had the money saved up quickly evaporated. My "Uggie" would start to rust at the mention of the word "moisture." But that Yildiz, with its aluminum action, chrome-lined bores and chambers, and satin-black chrome barrel finish would likely be no worse for wear after getting snowed and rained on. And I shot it really well. After shooting it, there was a whole lot I liked about it and not much of any significance that I didn't. I decided that I had to have one, too. It took me a year to find another 28 gauge SPZ ME but I finally found one. There is no other gun I would rather go upland hunting with than it. It has been rained on, snowed on, had pointing Lab slobber all over it, and it still looks as new as it did when I pulled it out of the box for the very first time. And the wood...... The figured Turkish walnut on mine would look at home on a gun costing several times what I paid. My former wife needed a superposed 12 bore for her collegiate shotgun sports team. She also got on really well with my 28 gauge SPZ ME. In shopping, she drew the conclusion that nothing in 12 bore that we could find really fit her like my SPZ ME did except a 12 gauge SPZ ME. So we bought an aluminum-frame 12 bore SPZ ME for her. When my daughter got old enough for her own gun, she got a 26" barreled 28 gauge SPZ ME. After I divorced, I decided I wanted a 12 bore gun for sporting; something that would go more than 25,000 rounds before needing action tightening. I drew the same conclusion that my ex-wife did; nothing I tried fit me like my SPZ ME did except for other SPZ ME's. I bought a steel-frame 12 bore. I really like that gun on the sporting course. It patterns cheap, clay-crushing 1 oz. Cheddite shells beautifully. It has the same basic handling dynamics of my 28 gauge but is about a pound and a quarter heavier. It has a really nice trigger which, like my 28, isn't an inertia type. The safety is non-automatic reset, like my 28. And like my 28, that satin-black chrome exterior barrel finish reduces glare when shooting into the sun, which happens in sporting as it does in the field. It's probably due to being a little heavier, but I shoot the 12 bore even better than the 28 and I shoot that thing really well, as it is. As far as off the rack stuff goes, there is nothing I would rather shoot sporting with than my steel frame 12 bore SPZ ME because nothing else I have tried fits me as well or feels like an extension of me to the same degree. Now, if I could buy from a shotgun specialist who can make any gun fit me, things might be different. Maybe they will be, someday. But I don't think I would want to give up that glare-reducing barrel finish, or the non-inertia trigger of my SPZ ME, or the stupid-simple "Brescia Action" design that I can easily maintain myself on my kitchen table. If there were shotguns out there, off the rack, that I would rather shoot than my SPZ ME's, I'd be shooting them. I know I'm not really saving any money by shooting a combined total of under $1,000.00 for a pair of guns. A quail hunt in Arizona costs me just as much to engage in as it would if I stuck to Plan A and bought an A y A 4/53 and I spend just as much to shoot a round or two of sporting as the Perazzi shooter does. Nothing about actually using my SPZ ME's is cheap and if cost saving was a major thing, I could easily make up the difference in price between a Browning Citori and an SPZ ME by spending a few less family days on the sporting clays course or skipping out on a few out-of-state upland hunting excursions. For me, whether it is air rifles, percussion revolvers, shotguns, or anything else I shoot, the real expense of shooting isn't in the hardware. It is in the metal I send downrange through it and all of the expenses associated with doing that. I'm not spending tens of thousands of dollars on a four-wheel drive vehicle to access quail and chukar hunting spots so that I can use a Maverick 88 when I get there. Compared to the cost of the kind of vehicle I need to put a shotgun to use in the field, the cost of a mid-range Beretta or Browning kind of pales into insignificance. It pales in comparison to the cost of the ammunition I will have shot over a lifetime of ownership, too. While my Yildiz SPZ ME's seem to me like one of the best values in shooting sport, they would have been a total waste of money if they didn't fit me as if bespoke because I wouldn't do as much hitting with guns that aren't really fitting. A shotgun that fits, that feels like an extension of me, however, is worth a lot more to me than its purchase price. That's a gun that is going to be fun to use, because that is a gun I will satisfy the objective of hitting what I pull the trigger on to a higher degree. I might not dismiss a gun because it is Made in Turkey now, but I wouldn't buy one simply because it is cheaper than some better-fitting, better handling alternative, either.

Me too, but you can’t take them. You have to buy them. And they’re spendy.

chronically american

I found the colonial boys

Someone who makes comments like that is a bore.

@@JC-fj7oo Given your terminology, wouldn't they be a gauge?

They might sponser the channel but if its a good gun that's all that matters. I would rather buy a lincoln 20g though.

Mine goes bang.

i have 2 yildiz a 12 and 20 never a problem