Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Is the Browning Cynergy a success ?

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The Browning Cynergy has been out for a while now.

Has the Cynergy overtaken the Browning Citori in the market place, the game fields, or the competition range ?

Given the Cynergy's sales and what Browning would have sold as Citoris if the Cynergy did not exist...

Would y'all consider the Cynergy a major new product introduction success ?

Will Browning still be selling both the Citori and the Cynergy five years from now ?

Was rereading a magazine article written when the Cynergy was first introduced and the argument was made that the Cynergy was the first real advancement and improvement in over/unders in fifty years.



How long after the Browning Citori was introduced did the Superposed move over to a custom shop only gun ?


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Not sure of the sales numbers for the Cynergy vs. Citiori! I can tell you that my hunting partner sold a Beretta Whitewing and bought a Cynergy and hasn't regretted it for one second! The Browning line of shotguns takes a backseat to nobody and that includes their pump and autoloaders!

Elk Country

According to the Browning web site the Citori was introduced in 1973 and the Superposed discontinued in 1986. The situation was a little different than the Cynergy vs. Citori. The Citori was to be a lower cost replacement for the Superposed. The Cynergy is similarly priced and probably always will be.

The Cynergy is a significantly different design in that it has no pivot pin below the barrels. This results in an action that is smaller top to bottom. Looking at the specifications, it doesn't appear to be any lighter.

Last year I was looking for an over-under that could handle steel shot. For various reasons it came down to a choice between the Citori Feather and the Cynergy Feather. The Citori fit me better so that is the direction I chose.

My favorite shotgun is a 50's vintage Super that is still going strong.

Jerry

Cynergy is a success with me.

Didn't want to like it, because of the non-traditional styling, but of the shotguns I tried out at the time I was looking, it fit me the best, by far, with the factory stock and that was the deciding factor.

Glad I went with fit instead of style. It's a clay-busting little SOB.

The looks are growing on me, too.

- Tom

Browning introduced the Cynergy with the intent that it did not take Citori sales away, hence the strong Euro look. What is not readily known is the handwork that goes into a Citori; it is hand-fitted using the old lamp-black method: the Citori is one heck of a gun. Having said all that, the Cynergy is one heck of a gun too. The hinge is totally different and it is very low profile. Different type of manufacture allows Browning to do better with both guns in the line. There are more traditional looking Cynergy's now.

When choosing a shotgun, choose fit first then models and features second. If it doesn't fit you won't hit. That is one thing I do not like about the Beretta O/U shotguns, they all have the same dimensions and if one doesn't fit, none will. Browning makes different models with different dimensions.

I like classic lines; modern, Euro-looks just don't do anything for me. I bought a 12 ga. Citori in the early 70's and have never looked back.

I'm sure it's a fine working and shooting gun, but I have a hard time looking at it.

Been pretty happy with my Cynergy Classic Field.



There are plastic parts in the forend which don't exactly thrill me so the jury is still out as to how it'll hang in the long run.

hangunnr