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Just curious how many of yall target shoot with your SXS. I know some guys that use O/Us for clays and SXSs for birds.

I am plenty much split and use both guns on both clays and birds. But I am slightly biased to my SXSs. Everybody at the skeet club knows me as "the guy that shoots the 'ole SXSs".

So, do you have a dedicated O/U for clays or do you just use your hunting guns?

Speaking of which, today's high will be pushing 80, so I am staying out of the snake woods... I mean quail woods. Time to hit the skeet field.

Adam

I have several O/U guns, I guess one of them is a purpose built dedicated clays gun, but I still enjoy shooting the old pre war German S x S guns that I have. I even shoot occasionally with black powder.

Hello Adam:

I tried to shoot Skeet with a SxS awhile ago and I was having a difficult time hitting the clays. About half way through the round, a couple of "experts" approached me and informed me that one can not shoot Skeet with a SxS. They explained to me that one of the barrels always blocks your view of the bird. ????????????
I have no idea as to if this is true or not but what do I know? Lol

Stay well,

Franchi

I use a Spanish 20 bor.er..ga boxlock sxs regularly. Best I have done is 25, tho not always.
Alas, if only it were a hammer gun.....

Concentration and fit is more important in my opinion, whether my sxs or my o/u or my auto.

I nearly always use a SxS for skeet, but am embarrassed to admit that I sometimes do better with an autoloader.

Horse hockey on not shooting skeet with a SXS.

No problem, no sweat, a properly fitted gun is the
issue in question.

I regularly shoot skeet with many SXS and have no
issues.

Mike

p.s. maybe you can only shoot skeet with a side by side
in Texas and England??

I shoot about 5k of shells each year at Skeet and Sporting Clays. That is more "wear" than I choose to add to my vintage SxS's, most of which are 50 to 100 years old.

So I shoot clay birds with a Citori or Beretta A-400 until fall of each year. Then I switch to the SxS's for hunting season. I will shoot a few "practice rounds" oc clays with the SxS's in September, just to prepare for bird season.

About 10 years ago, I decided to hunt birds ONLY with SxS's.

JERRY

I shoot more trap than skeet, but do shoot both with a SxS, different guns of course due to chokes. I do as well with both (not that great) as I do with my O/U Baretta 686. I prefer to practice with the SxS guns because thats what I use for birds and my brain doesn't like to switch between single and double triggers.

Low gun. 2 high only at 1 & 2. Two doubles 3, 4, & 5. 2 low only 6 & 7. Backwards (looking at the other house to take the target over the shoulder. Haven't been hit in the back of the head yet) station 8. And shoot twice at the misses

Skeet guns??




Mike