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Yeah but that mandates a screw in choke option on the barrel or barrels as case maybe. Lot of sporting Clay's target presentations are best with a more open choke than a trap gun has. Mb

You could get a decent old Wingmaster for maybe $300 and shoot trap. It’s a place to start without a lot of cash up front. Starting out, you don’t know if you want a BT99, a Citori, or whatever else. When you shoot, you can talk to the other guys on the line. Some will let you try their guns. One guy at our club shoots an old Wingmaster he bought new in about 1960. He shoots in the mid 90% range. If you don’t like trap, or if you like a different gun, you can sell your 870 for about what you paid for it.

Like a few others posted, the fit of your shotgun is most important.

I started shooting trap when I bought my first shotgun just to learn how to shoot it. I started with league shooting then moved on to ATA registered shooting. When I started registered shooting I bought a Browning BT-99 with a 32" Improved Modified barrel and a 34" Full choked barrel.

I rarely used the Full choked barrel, and the IM barrel got me to class AA in 16 yard singles and to the 27 yard line in handicap. For trap doubles I bought a trap model Browning Citori over/under with Invector choke tubes. That gun got me into ATA class A doubles, which is a sanctioned trap event.

After I got to that level in trap I started shooting skeet. Again I started with league shooting then on to NSSA registered skeet shooting, all with my 30" barrel trap model Citori. I had Briley fit small guage insert tubes in that Citori so I could shoot 20, 28, and .410 shells in the same gun. That gun then got me into NSSA class AA or A in all four skeet gauges and class A in skeet doubles, which is also a sanctioned skeet event.

Then I used that same Citori to win the class AA sporting clays event at the Montana Big Sky State Games one year.

My point of all of this is just to show what can be accomplished with a proper fitting gun and a lot of practice.