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I'm a huge fan of SxS shotguns, I've had the good, the bad and the brilliant over the years.
Possibly my favourite was a Franchi Highlander 12ga, it was single trigger and a damn good goose gun when I was living up north, I regret selling that one. It was my 1st single trigger SxS and my 1st shotgun with screw in chokes.
I love my Beretta Silver Hawk, but being a shot and ball/slug gun it's not ideal for wing shooting with the big blade front sight and fixed I/C & Light/Mod chokes, it's single trigger too which I find brilliant for instant second shots.
Although I'm not exactly slow with the double trigger, but the single is quicker.

The one I really regret parting with was a mint Greener Blue rock I was given as a kid, that one when I was much younger and dumber I traded for a new Remington 1100, worse mistake of my life but being 16 then I definitely didn't appreciate it the way I would now.

But I've had cheap ones, my paddock gun was a Baikal and I've owned 2 more since then, good honest reliable guns, they weren't anything fancy but they did a brilliant job.

I had a model 43E by Dynamite Nobel that was the best cheap gun I ever bought, I sold that to a mate and I'd love to get it back, nice engraving, great wood, solid and a bit heavy but very well balanced, beautiful blueing and back when I bought it I only paid $800.
Id happily pay twice that to get it back now.

Then there's a whole lot more that don't really stick out in my mind other then my grandpa's VG Bentley but that would need a massive write up on its own, it's the gun that cursed me with being a SxS man.

I've only ever owned 3 U/O's and never much liked them, although the last shotgun I bought was a cheap one I bought as a cheap knock around pig chasing gun, it's scoped with a rifled choke in the top and an imp/cyl underneath that I'm going to use with round ball, slugs and buckshot exclusively on once a year pig trips.
But in the less rough country the Beretta will be my 1st choice.

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