Originally Posted By: canvasback
What decline?

When my dad took me waterfowl (mostly) and upland hunting in the sixties, I never saw anyone use a SxS.

When I hunted through the 70s, 80s and 90s across Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and in north South Dakota, I never saw a SxS being used.
To most hunters I ever meet SxS were the guns that our grandfathers used. For waterfowl on the Canadian prairies, pumps reigned supreme for decades, only recently supplanted by semi-autos.

So from my perspective, I dont know how it could possibly decline any more than it already did, from the 1920s through the 1950s.

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That's what I think as well. When I was 16 (some years ago), I was living in Minnesota. I bought a new shotgun, a Spanish double barrel. The gun dealer had 2 in stock. When I bought it, all my friends thought I was nuts and asked "why in the hell would you buy that". You hardly ever came across anyone hunting with a sxs.