O/U vs. SXS

[BigD_in_FL]

Boomer - how about something like this?



or this?



Might be a tad heavy at about 9 pounds for 5 barrels with rifle and shotguns together though

[zippy13]

BigD, how do you regulate five barrels? Yeah, I know -- very, very carefully.

[BigD_in_FL]

You'll have to ask Peter Hofer, he makes these in Austria.....along with some other gorgeous stuff that I need to hit the Powerball for........

[TomADC]

Old photo we found in a safe we thought empty all these years I think this was taken late 40's after the war, on the left my great grandfather with the SxS then my grandmother & grandfather using a magnifying glass looks to have a single barrel vent rib shotgun. The two young men I believe are range workers.
SxS is a A H Fox made in 1913 I'm had it maybe 50 years or so.

[ZVP]

SxS holds most naturally. It wants to lay in the hand flat and lined up. Besides many doouble SxS's come with double triggers, a VERY FAST was to get to a second shot! No action to wrack.
Other than that it is what you shoot the best.
BPDave

[Sodbuster]

SXS but only because I cut my teeth on one

Ditto. My Dad's Stevens 511A to be exact.

[Boomer58cal]

SXS but only because I cut my teeth on one

Same here. Fox model B, with the barrel cut to 18.5" and funneled with a cylinder hone until the body of a 12 gauge hull fit in the muzzle. It makes about a 2 ft pattern at 15 yards with 20 pellet #4 buck.

My dad always called it his closet cleaner.

Boomer