There are shotguns built to be good, and then there are shotguns built to be the last one you ever need to buy. The Blaser FBX Sporting falls squarely into the second category. It’s the newest word from Blaser’s competition line, and it was engineered for one purpose: to give serious clay shooters an edge that shows up not in the spec sheet, but in the score card.
Blaser has spent decades refining the over-under for the competition circuit with the F3 and F16, two guns that have earned their reputations on sporting layouts and in Olympic rings alike. The FBX takes a different starting point. Instead of adapting an existing platform, Blaser built around what they call a “Fat Body” monocoque receiver — a semi-round, broad-shouldered design that changes how the gun carries weight and how quickly it comes back on target after the shot.
Paired with that receiver is a linear-geometry stock and a steeper pistol grip with an optimized palm swell, both aimed at the same problem every clay shooter knows intimately: muzzle flip. Extended forcing cones and a large-surface recoil pad do the rest, cutting felt recoil so the second barrel comes up faster and flatter. It’s the kind of engineering that doesn’t announce itself until you’re mounting the gun for your hundredth pair of the day and realize you’re not fighting it anymore.
The FBX carries Blaser’s proven internals — the IBS anti-double system and the Ejection Ball System — inside a trigger group that’s fully detachable for easy maintenance, a small feature that matters a great deal to anyone who’s ever had to strip a trigger group on a clays stand between events. The barrels wear a ventilated side rib, shedding weight and heat without sacrificing sight picture, and shooters can choose Briley thin-wall extended chokes for shot-to-shot tuning or a simpler fixed-choke setup for those who prefer to leave well enough alone.
Blaser’s FBX balancer system, built into both the forend and the buttstock, lets a shooter dial in the gun’s weight distribution the way a golfer dials in a swing weight — small adjustments that add up to a gun that feels like it was built around your particular stance rather than a generic average. And every visible steel surface is finished in a black Diamond-Like Carbon coating, which is as much about long-term durability against sweat, weather, and range use as it is about the gun’s understated, matte-black presence on the line.
Make no mistake: the FBX Sporting is a purpose-built competition gun, not a do-everything piece. It’s chambered in 12 gauge with 2¾″ and 3″ capability, offered with 30″ or 32″ barrels, and it comes with an adjustable comb so a fitted stock is part of the package rather than an aftermarket afterthought. The Blaser FBX price retails around $13,995, positioning it firmly at the top of the sporting clays market, alongside the guns that serious competitors save years for.
That’s exactly the point. The FBX isn’t chasing the hunter who wants one gun for everything. It’s chasing the shooter who’s already logged thousands of rounds, who already knows their stance and their timing, and who’s looking for the last variable between them and a cleaner scorecard to be the gun itself.
We’ve handled a lot of over-unders over the years, and guns like the Blaser FBX don’t come along often. It’s not a gun you buy on a whim — it’s a gun you buy once you already know exactly what you’re after. If that’s where you are in your shooting, or if you simply want to see German engineering at its most deliberate, come by and get one in your hands. Some guns are worth reading about. This one is worth mounting.
Interested in the Blaser FBX Sporting or want to see how it compares to the F3 and F16? View our guns online below, or stop by Rivers & Glen and let’s talk clays.
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