They probably do a little better with such guns, and they invest in them and shoot them because they're serious about their sport. The same shooters would probably be in the winners' circle with their plain old bird guns. Such a gun is the Beretta 682 Sporting. The Beretta family has been making guns longer than anyone in the world, almost 500 years and for 15 generations. Competition shotguns have long been part of their line, and they make very good trap and skeet guns-but for reasons unknown to me the Beretta name has never had a high profile in the American versions of these sports.
Sporting clays is a different story.
Beretta shotguns are popular among the aficionados of the game-and after shooting a 682 Sporting I can see why. It is not a complex gun. This one had 30-inch barrels, which is my preference in a sporting clays gun. Trigger is single-selective, with vented barrels and a rib that's sort of medium in width, tapering slightly from 10mm to 8mm. The shotgun comes nicely cased.