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Re: Over and under or side by side?
      23/06/20 02:20 AM

Well having read it, not impressed. Mostly just the authors personal opinion and bias set off right from the beginning. He started as an U/O shooter.

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“Well, I wasn’t going to let any through to someone using one of those,” he said, with a dismissive glance at my over and under.




In the article, any variation from a straight gripped light open chocked lightly loaded game gun side by side, is somehow trying to copy an under and over in a side by side format. Ridiculous and moronic. There have always been variations for side by sides depending on the intended uses. Same as one U/O might be for field use, another skeet, another trap.

Heavier loadings and heavier side by sides? "Trying to copy an U/O." Moronic.

At the end he even tries to argue, side by sides were not traditional If you go back to the 1980's when I lived in the UK almost everyone used a side by side. The U/Os were rare and mostly used on competition clay target shoots. Even there the poms often used side by sides. So again the bias of the author is displayed. Trying to re-write history.

In Australia, old farm guns, ALWAYS a side by side or a single shot. Same in the UK.

A lot of rubbish about the lesser recoil of an U/O compared to a side by side. Lets see some science on this. Would be so minor as to be irrelevant. The weight of the gun is what is relevant and its fit.

Interesting most big bore doubles are ALWAYS side by sides. If recoil difference is so dramatic.

Perhaps relevant is an U/O will have its "regulation" planes more matching on a rising trap clay. For skeet there won't be much difference, nor in the field. The reason U/Os dominated trap shooting earlier.

Beavertail forends being superior? Give me a bucket ....

Might also be a U/O needs a wider forend to make up for the lack of width for the flat hand to hold compared to a side by side.

Single triggers being better? Only for the inexperienced. Again shows his "modern" bias.

Pointing a ruler at something? Wow, impressive. Holding it edge up may also have something to do with how a hand grips something when pointing.

U/Os are better because they have changeable chokes? Great logic. A side side can be fitted as such as well.

Lots of people shooting old clunkers owned by grandpa instead of "upgrading" to an U/O like their carbon fibre golf clubs? Well maybe they play silly golf. And maybe that old traditional side by side is still working fine, and they don't need to waste money on a crappy desk sitter's shotgun simply because it is modern, and makes money for magazine's advertisers.

Maybe they want to use what Grandpa used and Dad used, and it worked back then and still does.

The author is a berk. Ha ha.

Give me two matched Purdey side by sides anyday. But please not so heavily choked like 95% of shotguns seem to be.

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* Over and under or side by side? lancaster 21/06/20 01:50 AM
. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? xausa   22/06/20 08:27 PM
. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? NitroXAdministrator   22/06/20 10:02 PM
. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? NitroXAdministrator   23/06/20 02:02 AM
. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? NitroXAdministrator   23/06/20 02:20 AM
. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? Trailboss   24/06/20 11:07 AM
. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? Rule303   06/07/20 08:26 PM
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. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? DarylS   12/07/20 02:13 AM
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. * * Re: Over and under or side by side? NitroXAdministrator   16/07/21 07:17 PM
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