Originally Posted By: salopian
The popularity of O/U against SxS is simply a matter of promotion by the shooting press .


That is just flat out biased and wrong. The O/U is the superior design over the S x S, all else being equal, for higher percentage hits on all types of presentations. That is exactly the reason there are no top elite competitive shooters in FITASC, sporting clays, skeet and trap that are using S x S guns. To say it is all a ploy by the shooting press is to deny the sunrise.

I shoot S x S guns almost exclusively when hunting. I compete with them in S x S specialty events and shoots. Why?........... because I love shooting them. But, when the money is on the line I will be shooting an O/U, because I, and thousands of other open-minded people, know that I can kill a few more birds out of 100 with it. I cannot imagine a reasonable, level headed, unbiased person giving S x Ss and O/Us both a fair, and equal, shakeout and determining the S x S is the equal for percentage shooting. I gave a 32" well balanced and well fitted S x S a fair run in sporting clays competitions and found it lacking. Yet, I still prefer them for hunting.

We have gone through this dozens of times over the years on this board, and there always seems to be someone who is so biased as to deny the obvious. I don't get it. Why can't people enjoy what they enjoy without belittling other's gun buying decisions? When you claim that the popularity of O/Us over S x Ss is the result of the shooting press you are insulting tens of thousands of shooters who have, through years of trial and error, come to their decision. You can continue to grope around in the darkness, salopian, but the sun has indeed risen. Open your eyes.

SRH

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