I’M SOLD!

This month I set out to review the Perazzi MX2000S. Up till now I have never had the chance to really try a Perazzi, as I was sponsored for over seven years by Zoli, one of their direct competitors. That’s not quite true. Years ago I had tried a Perazzi MX8 on Olympic Skeet, and decided it was good quality but not the gun for me. That came about in 2010, when Joe Neville, the GB Olympic Skeet Coach, invited me to try Olympic Skeet up on his ground. I was shooting an old Krieghoff K80 at the time, and had very little interest in Skeet, let alone Olympic Skeet. I wasn’t all that keen to try either, most likely fear of making an absolute fool of myself!

“I popped the beast into my shoulder and muttered ‘Yes, I can shoot this.’”

I remember his words: “If you can shoot 92 round a tough course at Doveridge, you can shoot Olympic Skeet easy!’ What’s the harm in trying I thought, so I went and had a go. My husband had made me shoot English Skeet for a year when I first started shooting and I felt I was fairly competent at that, so surely OS couldn’t be too bad. I soon learnt otherwise!