I don't know whether the best shooters left sxs, or whether sxs left the best shooters. Production really took a tumble in this country post-WWII, at which point autos and pumps were the guns to own. OU's didn't really surge in popularity until the Japanese guns started showing up in the 60's. Reliable, and far less expensive than the Belgian Superposeds, which were about the only very popular OU's up to that point. With the American sxs industry dead--and they had all made target guns, both trap and skeet, prior to WWII--it came down to a foreign sxs or OU if you wanted a 2 barrel field gun. But they also offered OU target models, which was not the case in the foreign sxs guns. More than anything, I think everyone in the States forgot that sxs had competed well in the target games prior to the war. Seeing some now again, from SKB for example, but for the very narrow niche market of the sxs competitions.
Last edited by L. Brown; 02/25/17 05:06 PM.
