If you ever shot a Krieghoff K-20 Parcours you might walk away thinking that this 20-gauge over/under is the best handling shotgun, period. That could be attributed to the Parcours approach that pairs barrels lighter than the standard model with the low-profile K-20 action. For ladies, the K-20 Parcours now gets even better with the new purpose-designed Krieghoff K-20 Victoria.
As Krieghoff’s first shotgun for women, the German company shaped a stock that has a shorter length of pull, adjustable comb, and anatomically friendly pitch and palm swell. Up front there’s a slender, field-style forend that enhances control in the smaller hands of a woman.
Krieghoff’s approach is not much different from other brands of women’s sporting guns except for the distinction that the Victoria is built around the impeccable K-20 Parcours. And at a starting price of $12,395 with the standard scroll engraving the K-20 Victoria doesn’t impose a price penalty over its sibling K-20 Parcours.
The Krieghoff K-20 Victoria stock with its adjustable comb is comprehensively shaped for the female anatomy compared with standard off-the-shotguns.
Although the Krieghoff Victoria lacks the tournament chops of Krieghoff’s vaunted 12-gauge K-80 stable of clays crushers, the Krieghoff K-20 Victoria proved comfortable, accurate and lively on bobwhite quail and sporting clays here in South Georgia.
On the model that I shot the 20-gauge, nickel-plated steel receiver showcased Krieghoff’s deep-chiseled Parcours Special engraving (pointer and pheasant on one side and lab retriever and duck on the other). The higher grade Turkish walnut was finished with the K-20 Victoria fleur-de-lis flourishes on the checkering borders. Those options raised the price to $18,995 (and drew the admiration of my female clays-shooting friends).
Krieghoff clearly knows female shotgunners because the K-20 Victoria arrived in a specially designed tan and cream-colored leather case. I wish I had a matched set of luggage that went with the K-20 Victoria case – or a pair of shoes. It was beautiful.
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