Primus, I think you will be pleased with your Zoli. My last trap/sporting gun is a Zoli "Z" gun. It is a gun made for Dakota Arms with a single digit serial number, 32" barrels. about 8 3/4#, drop trigger grp. and even with the weight and long barrels it balances at about 1/2" in front of the hinge.
My introduction to formal trap was with an L.C. Smith, field grade, featherweight, 16ga., I/C & Mod, field gun. Next came an 870 that I restocked with a butt stock from Herters. Ugly as hell but it worked. Next was an 870TB. When I got out of the service in '70 I bought a Model 12. This was not a Model 12 Trap but a gun that was built up. It had a Simmons rib, monte carlo stock and we simply crushed targets. Never should have sold it but I did and it's replacement was a Y Model Trap which I shot pretty well but not like the built up gun. In the end I bought the Zoli but vision deterioration pretty much destroyed my shotgun shooting.
What Primus is alluding to in the more costly trap guns is dynamics. It is the attribute which allows a gun to start out fast to the target but retain inertia in a manner that prevents you from stopping the gun when you pull the trigger. This requires some refinement in the design and balance of the gun.
As far as pressure and money there is nothing in precision rifle that I have ever heard of that is equivalent to the shotgun world. I learned to shoot trap at a large and old club which hosted large shoots including state championships. It's a long time ago but as I remember there were calcuttas for all of them and the money was significant. Thus the anecdotal stories of shooter hiring bimbos to distract shooters.
Then there is the sport of boxed bird or columbaire shooting. It involves the shooting of pigeons released from a box or actually thrown by a an individual in the case of columbaire. The money can be large and the side bets are whatever shooters agree to.
Now back to the shotguns. One of the reasons that guys shoot Kreighoffs, Perazzis, etc. is the history of reliability. There are no mulligans, gimmes or do overs in the shotgun sports. If your gun fails it is an absolute your f'kd. Many of the higher end guns have drop trigger groups, Most failures occur in the fire control systems. The drop trigger groups allow a shooter to switch and be immediately be back in the game.
Edit. My computer put this post up last night without my permission. So to finish this I'll address boring trap. It's only boring when you can't do it. I looked up the record run on targets. The article indicated that the reord run on registered 16yd. targets was set in 2008 and was over 2100 registered taregets without a miss. The previous record was from 1998 and was around 500 targets less. I can't imagine anybody having the focus to accomplish that but that's because I know I can't.
