weatherby centurion shotgun

cold queso · 06-09-2009, 10:05 AM

I have an opportunity to buy a beautiful centurion with 2 barrels. It's lack of choke tubes and only being a 2 3/4 chamber has everybody passing it up.

would this shotgun be reliable? does anyone have experience with them?

Windwalker · 06-09-2009, 03:16 PM

If it carries Weatherby's name you can count on it being reliable.What will it cost you?

cold queso · 06-10-2009, 01:51 AM

It's a steal at $250. However it's a pre Nikko 1972 a prefix, which had issues with the action bar cracking. This one is fine right now.

ArkansasHunter · 06-10-2009, 01:58 AM

Go to Midway USA and the like and see if chokes are available for the shotgun.
You may luck out and other manufacturers chokes work in it that are readlily available.
Best of Luck ...A.H

cold queso · 06-10-2009, 02:01 AM

gun has fixed chokes - 1 bbl is skeet and other bbl is IC

ArkansasHunter · 06-10-2009, 02:23 AM

O.K. it has built in chokes. Most every shotgun you buy today handles 2 & 3/4 and 3'' mag loads.

I'd almost bet more people shoot or hunt with 2 & 3/4 shells unless there duck or turkey hunters.
My Step Father has killed more ducks and turkeys than you can count with 2 & 3/4 loads.

I don't see why the shotgun not being able to shoot 3'' magnums is an issue.
I see it as getting a bargain.

Take time and go look at ammo manufacture sites and you'll find some very very potent 2 & 3/4 shotgun shells for every kind of shooting and hunting.

If you want the shotgun buy it and don't look back. Even if it were able to shoot 3'' magnums you would get your belly full of getting hammered by them.

xd45 · 06-10-2009, 03:08 AM

I have a Weatherby SA-08 from back when it only came in 2 3/4 chamber, and I hunt pheasant, duck, and geese with it no problem. In fact after growing up with that gun (had it since I was 13), I cringe after firing off a 3 inch magnum in a non-semi.

06-09-2009, 10:05 AM	#1
cold queso Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 196	weatherby centurion shotgun I have an opportunity to buy a beautiful centurion with 2 barrels. It's lack of choke tubes and only being a 2 3/4 chamber has everybody passing it up. would this shotgun be reliable? does anyone have experience with them?

06-09-2009, 03:16 PM	#2
Windwalker Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 6,097	If it carries Weatherby's name you can count on it being reliable.What will it cost you? __________________ America: Love it and protect it or leave it In God I Trust

06-10-2009, 01:58 AM	#4
ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas. Posts: 17,211	Go to Midway USA and the like and see if chokes are available for the shotgun. You may luck out and other manufacturers chokes work in it that are readlily available. Best of Luck ...A.H __________________ IN GOD WE TRUST NRA MEMBER

06-10-2009, 02:23 AM	#6
ArkansasHunter Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South Arkansas. Posts: 17,211	O.K. it has built in chokes. Most every shotgun you buy today handles 2 & 3/4 and 3'' mag loads. I'd almost bet more people shoot or hunt with 2 & 3/4 shells unless there duck or turkey hunters. My Step Father has killed more ducks and turkeys than you can count with 2 & 3/4 loads. I don't see why the shotgun not being able to shoot 3'' magnums is an issue. I see it as getting a bargain. Take time and go look at ammo manufacture sites and you'll find some very very potent 2 & 3/4 shotgun shells for every kind of shooting and hunting. If you want the shotgun buy it and don't look back. Even if it were able to shoot 3'' magnums you would get your belly full of getting hammered by them. __________________ IN GOD WE TRUST NRA MEMBER

06-10-2009, 01:51 AM	#3
cold queso Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 196	It's a steal at $250. However it's a pre Nikko 1972 a prefix, which had issues with the action bar cracking. This one is fine right now.

06-10-2009, 02:01 AM	#5
cold queso Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Minnesota Posts: 196	gun has fixed chokes - 1 bbl is skeet and other bbl is IC

06-10-2009, 03:08 AM	#7
xd45 Senior Member Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 100	I have a Weatherby SA-08 from back when it only came in 2 3/4 chamber, and I hunt pheasant, duck, and geese with it no problem. In fact after growing up with that gun (had it since I was 13), I cringe after firing off a 3 inch magnum in a non-semi.