Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe
Side clips add strength....if not the English would never wasted their time putting them on a SxS.


Exactly, in the old days they did, with modern steels they are for aesthetics and I love them, have never had a double rifle or shotgun without them but beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What I donīt understand is how you chaps have cut yourselves with them ?? That has never happened to me in 30 years. How do you open them ? best, Mike