Thread: Akkar Churchill UO

Grab it, I know several A graders who have them. There's a bit of snob factor that goes with shot gunning, when I started I had a lanber and was laughed at but it fitted me and I shot very well with it.
I was looking at an akkar as a "nicer gun" but ended up with a rizzini off a forum member

For not much more money you could find a miroku, twice the gun, best value for money in the country.
The Turkish guns aren't proven for high use yet

Originally Posted by Peteforskeet

For not much more money you could find a miroku, twice the gun, best value for money in the country.
The Turkish guns aren't proven for high use yet

I hear what you say, and an Akkar would ordinarily be my last choice! Incidentally, I won a brand new Akkar Churchill semi-auto in a shooting competition some months ago (the lucky number door prize!) and it was definitely a "cheap-and-cheerful". I gave it away to a young shooter friend without firing it even once.

That said, my initial thoughts for an UO was a new Beretta 694 (within my budget) but one well-experienced shooter suggested I'd get better value by keeping an eye and ear out for a good second hand DT10. I'm still thinking along those lines, and this Akkar might be useful as a temporary solution to avoid the need for the semi at the traps while I'm looking and waiting for a DT10 to come up for sale. Once I started using the Akkar, some shooters told me they don't like me using a semi when I'm in their squad.

If I keep it for a year or so, and put 150 rounds though it per weekend, that's about 7,500 rounds. I don't know, but that doesn't sound too high use? If it's scrap by then, that's not too high of a price to pay for some UO experience, given I've never owned or used one prior to the weekend.

There are some scrap (parts only) Akkar semi-autos for sale at GunCity, but I've not found any evidence or stories of them blowing up. And I'm using target loads, not field loads.

Originally Posted by Peteforskeet

The Turkish guns aren't proven for high use yet

Ive heard the same said about Spanish guns......yet some of us are still using them 45 years after purchase and many thousands of rounds later,much use and abuse,many solid slugs and some dreadful days in pouring rain....guess every gun has to proove itself over time,but you have to give it time to do so..catch 22