Whats Best - Side by Side or Over and Under, semi, pump or double trigger, single trigger etc
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HistoricBore
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As an old git I just prefer side by sides. My 1946 Webley & Scott 600 Special has 30" barrels, ejectors and a semi-pistol grip, so is almost an over/under spec really!
But I do have a trusty Nikko from 1974 to lend to beginners. But out of habit I just keep moving to find the second trigger...
I find the side by sides need much more cast than the over/unders, as someone else said. Fit is everything.
HB
But I do have a trusty Nikko from 1974 to lend to beginners. But out of habit I just keep moving to find the second trigger...
I find the side by sides need much more cast than the over/unders, as someone else said. Fit is everything.
HB
I know, but not in 1979.
welshwarrior
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I did release cjm1066 mentioned 1979 apologies
There is something about shucking the action of a smooth pump that just adds a bit of excitement to the shooting for me ... love the sound, the feel, and the enhanced sense of being "in the game". That's just me though, and I realize it's not for everyone. It really is a matter of personal choice ... got some Remington Wingmasters, and some m37 Ithacas. The Ithaca 16s carry very nicely for upland birds.
Simple I love my 870 pump for rough use, its ugly as sin reliable as a rock, I also love my CZ coach gun, double hammers double triggers no chokes, very pretty swings like a dream, favorite use is handicap 16 yard trap just to annoy the serious trap guys with high end guns.
Horses for courses. The semi for wildfowl and it can take 3.5 cartridges if I get extravagant. There's the Beretta Silver Pigeon for game birds. My most used gun and ultra reliable (fingers crossed). I've also got a Sabatti O/U that is really a spare if the Beretta ever fails and as a loan gun if needed. Which leaves the Gunmark Kestrel SXS (a sidelock, but a cheap one) for light days where more walking and less shooting is the order of the day. Although I must admit the SXS is the only double trigger amongst them and it regularly catches me out. Must use it more.
Not sure about pump actions. They have all but been superseded by semis now. I do like an Aya Yeoman (SXS) that I had and now resides in my son's cabinet. I've had a go with the odd Beretta SXS and thought they merge form and function excellently. I've no real desire to get into really expensive modern shotguns. I expect my bargain basement Beretta will shoot as well as a top of the range job. But never having tried one, a fine English SXS would be on the shopping list if the lottery were to fall into my lap. Just because.
As for rifle actions, most rifle shooting I do will only ever require one follow-up shot so the bog standard bolt action is what is simplest and best for my needs. I can see the need for a semi-auto .22 for hordes of vermin and also those who want the safety (real or imagined) of a double rifle for shooting anything that might become annoyed with you. Falling block actions are quaint but historical really and we are forbidden other semi rifles, but they are just the thing for that follow up shot and I have to say that any fully automatic rifle only should be used on the battlefield or at ranges (in my view but also, of course not allowed).
Black powder long arms can be fun, as can pistols. I've always had a hankering to have a go with the likes of a cap and ball Colt Navy or Army (other makes are available) revolver, but I also think I'd get bored with that sooner rather than later, just banging away at paper. I get the feeling it would be like owning a Harley. You'd spend more time cleaning it than using it.
Anyway, enough of my drivel. Off to bed for me.
Not sure about pump actions. They have all but been superseded by semis now. I do like an Aya Yeoman (SXS) that I had and now resides in my son's cabinet. I've had a go with the odd Beretta SXS and thought they merge form and function excellently. I've no real desire to get into really expensive modern shotguns. I expect my bargain basement Beretta will shoot as well as a top of the range job. But never having tried one, a fine English SXS would be on the shopping list if the lottery were to fall into my lap. Just because.
As for rifle actions, most rifle shooting I do will only ever require one follow-up shot so the bog standard bolt action is what is simplest and best for my needs. I can see the need for a semi-auto .22 for hordes of vermin and also those who want the safety (real or imagined) of a double rifle for shooting anything that might become annoyed with you. Falling block actions are quaint but historical really and we are forbidden other semi rifles, but they are just the thing for that follow up shot and I have to say that any fully automatic rifle only should be used on the battlefield or at ranges (in my view but also, of course not allowed).
Black powder long arms can be fun, as can pistols. I've always had a hankering to have a go with the likes of a cap and ball Colt Navy or Army (other makes are available) revolver, but I also think I'd get bored with that sooner rather than later, just banging away at paper. I get the feeling it would be like owning a Harley. You'd spend more time cleaning it than using it.
Anyway, enough of my drivel. Off to bed for me.
enfieldspares
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A cheap O/U will, usually, be easier to shoot better than a cheap S/B/S. And an expensive O/U easier to shoot better than an expensive S/B/S. However the S/B/S will always be the quicker and easier to reload in a "flurry" or "flush". I've actually never either owned nor shot with an O/U in all my sixty years. But there's a reason competitive clay shooters use O/U guns and it isn't because they are sponsored to use them. Of all the guns I've owned the easiest to shoot best I ever used was a Greener GP. So I reason from that (because of the action depth and deep forend of the the Greener GP) that an O/U would also be easier to shoot than a S/B/S.
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