I'm a newbie to SXS's; coming from a long heritage of marksmen/rifle shooters. However, I'm really interested in SXS's for probably all the reasons you all were when you first 'discovered' them.
I want to know if the reliability and durability of vintage US made doubles are what I always hear about? Or is it more like what I always heard about vintage BMW motorcycles ? I had to learn to hard way about those-they're nice, but not really daily drivers and not reliable by modern standards.
In the past two weeks I have purchased two guns that seemed fine in the shop, but one only lasted 3 shots while patterning before a failure to an internal spring, while the other lasted one round of skeet, but began to slam fire while practicing a few shots on station 2.
I took them back, and the shop owner was great about it. However, at this point I have to say that the Remington Spartan I bought, just to see if I really liked shooting a SXS, is the most reliable one I've had thus far.
