I have registered nearly 10,000 sporting clays targets and agree with Michael completely.
I've shot everything from Remington 870s to Perazzi MX2000s. There are an awful lot of big name shooters on the sporting clays circuit that have switched to autoloaders. Most get paid or at leeast get free guns to shoot them. The big dogs can win with an H&R Topper if it shoots where their looking.
In my neck of the woods trap shooters generally shoot single barrel shotguns. The ones with a little coin shoot Lutics, Perazzis, K80 and KS5s or Browning BT99s and BT100s.
Generally only the trapshooters shooting more than one disipline pr trap doubles shoot O/Us. At least that's how it is in my slice of the country.
Cheers!
