Winchester SX3

[Torey Thulin]

Does anyone have a winchester sx3? i have had a sx2 for over five years of hardcore waterfowling now and rarely ever had problems with it. i just bought a sx3 a couple weeks ago and have had noting but porblems with it. it almost acts like it won't cycle fast enough but i know it does. One other buddy of mine has one he has had for a couple months now and has had big problems with it like the action locking up. he also had other problems.

[kingkilla]

i have one and have fired atleast 2 thousand rounds threw it since june and have had no problems. the only problem i had was it wouldnt cycle light loads when shooting skeet. so i got a light shooting piston and i now have no problems shooting skeet. i have hunted it pretty hard in the snow, freezing rain, everything and have had not one problem.

[spud]

a buddy of mine bought one this year, so far he loves it.

[Bull Island]

First bad thing I have heard about one.

[MistsITR]

selling guns for a living this def isn't the first i've heard of the SX3 having issues. i baught one and sold it without even fireing it....it's nothing more than a fansy gold hunter. browning makes ok rifles but i tend to turn my shotgun customers tward other options.~coff~ benelli ~coff~
i'm sure you could still get quite a bit for your gun if you wanted to sell it and go with a extrema II or SBE II
i sold my SX3 2 months ago for 950$

[Troy Bailey]

selling guns for a living this def isn't the first i've heard of the SX3 having issues. i baught one and sold it without even fireing it....it's nothing more than a fansy gold hunter. browning makes ok rifles but i tend to turn my shotgun customers tward other options.~coff~ benelli ~coff~
i'm sure you could still get quite a bit for your gun if you wanted to sell it and go with a extrema II or SBE II
i sold my SX3 2 months ago for 950$

I was told something similar about five or more years ago when I got my SX2, I'd hate to even try to count the number of cases of shells that guns seen without a hitch. I can't comment about the SX3, don't have one and haven't been around one, but all the SX2's I've experienced have been work horses.

[Jonathan Rice]

they're awsome guns man. AWSOME!!!!!!

[gas can]

I'm looking at getting one. The majority of things i have heard all have been good. But someone, somewhere is bound to get one with problems. Thats just part of it. You can either send it in for repair or have a local gun smith look at it.

[steelheadslayer]

I've had one since June and LOVE it. It has never failed to cycle and I'm not meticulous about cleaning it after every hunt. Mine has even cycled skeet loads with the stock piston which I believe it isn't designed to do.

Have you given it a good first cleaning and not lubed too heavily? Too much oil can make any semi-auto sluggish.

[Scott Turpen]

I have one as well and this is the first bad thing I've heard loved my X2 but like my X3 better. $400 cheaper than a SBEII.:D

[dlk_1000]

i had an extrema 2 and the barrel didn't sit right on it, it was crooked, and the choke had play in it so i brought it to a renouned gunsmith and his first words were "sbe 2 and extrema are what keeps me in business" so i called beretta and they wanted 375 for repairs that weren't guaranteed to work. i asked the gunsmith to pattern it and we concluded tthat the gun was off 18" at 30 yds. no wonder i couldn't hit anything. so i got rid of it for a SX3 and absolutely love it except it won't cycle really light trap rounds. i hope it continues to be a workhorse for many more seasons. and at $999.99 the price wasn't bad either..

[Torey Thulin]

i took my back today and got a benelli super black eagle2. I can't imagine them being a bad gun though because my sx2 performed flawlessly almost always. i must have just got a bad one. i would have loved to try another one but i came to the decission that i wanted a left handed model. I can remember shooting in a cornfield a couple times and getting stuff in my eyes. i will have this gun for awhile and its not worth losing an eye over. thanks for all of your input.

[ducknicker]

nice gun for a nice price:D

[MistsITR]

<--- Also a lefty shooter. with an SBE II

[CamoHunter870]

This fall my dad switched from a Nova to the Super X3 and so far this season, it has not had a single problem shooting 3" and 3.5" shells from warm weather to the recent snow and single digit temperatures. We have cleaned the barrel alittle during this time but have not gutted it completely to clean it. We have hunted 40+ days of the season too.

So far I am impressed with the gun. Felt recoil is also alot less then recoil operated guns. I shot it earlier in the year while clay shooting and then shot my buddies SBE the other night after cleaning it because of jamming problems and it was a night and day difference.