ON TEST: PERAZZI MX2000S

Becky McKenzie was so taken with this month’s test gun, she went out and bought one herself

TECH SPEC

MAKE 

Perazzi 

MODEL 

MX2000S 

RRP 

From £9,995 

BARRELS 

12 bore, lengths from 28 to 34ins approx 

RIB 

Ventilated, 11-7mm 

SAFETY 

Non-auto, selective 

STOCK LENGTH 

14¾ ins 

WEIGHT 

8lb 7.8oz as tested 

CHOKES 

Fixed as standard, test gun fitted with Teague choke system

WEB 

www.ruag.co.uk/ the-perazziexperience

T his 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 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!

You have a line above your pocket where the gun stock has to be, you can’t move the gun before the clay comes, there’s a delay of up to three seconds and when it comes it is FAST! I quickly realised the K80 was not the tool for the job. Research showed that Perazzi was the top Olympic Skeet gun to use so I decided to try one. We met Chris Little at Park Lodge one wintry day to try his custom MX8. It was a lovely gun, but I found it felt very ‘whippy’ and wouldn’t hold a consistent line. Chris then introduced me to Zoli and the rest is history.