ON TEST: ZOLI Z-SPORT
A REAL SMOOTHIE
Becky McKenzie looks back fondly on seven years competing successfully with her Zoli Sporter
“I must have put 130,000 cartridges through it, but I never once had a firing pin fail.”
TECH SPEC
MAKE
Zoli
MODEL
Z-Sport
BARRELS
28, 30, 32 and 34ins available
CHOKES
Flush titanium multichokes; extended chokes optional
RIB
Tapered 11-7mm as standard
SAFETY
Top tang non automatic, selective
STOCK
Grade 3 Turkish walnut, various configurations available
OPTIONS
Adjustable stock, balancing system, various customisations available
RRP
From around £4,000
WEB
www.shootingsports.edgarbrothers.com
I
started my shooting career with a Winchester 6500, and shot the poor thing until it just about fell to pieces. I then moved on to my first Krieghoff K80 Super Sporter 30in. This was a reconditioned gun, rumoured to have been in a house fire. Supposedly all that survived was the action, so it had new barrels and wood fitted. It was probably around 20 years old, but it worked really well. Back then, I really wasn’t strong enough or competent enough to shoot a Krieghoff. It was a cracking gun, but unless you set the beast up correctly it can make shooting rather hard work.
Then around 2010 I was asked by a British Shooting coach to try Olympic Skeet – which, to be honest, I had no interest in whatsoever. The Olympics is a hard path, you have to travel all round the world and shoot in competitions, and if you win, you win a place for your country, not yourself. At the end of all those competitions, it’s down to the selectors to decide who goes – and back then it seemed they didn’t always select the best. Even so, after many phone calls I caved in and went to try Olympic Skeet.