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Yea....and what are you ?

No question in your mind(only). I shoot both types interchangably, PG and straight grip, single trigger and double. All with the same LOP. I know what works for me. IMO, the whole question is just BS to fill up a monthly magazine column, as is the BS about barrel flip with SxS requiring them to have different drops than O/Us, etc. What works for you is surely OK with me. Just don't cite it as constitutional law, any more than my opinions are anything more than just my opinions.

I bet it's nice to have all the amswers....

I,m the SOB that called you an Idiot!

I agree with that statement.

IMO a straight grip does not require a longer LOP to be shot well. One thing it DOES require, though, IMO, is lighter loads. I shoot both PG and straight hand when hunting everything from doves to ducks and geese. My waterfowl S x S's have three inch chambers and I use them to advantage. Out of three, one has a straight grip. My hand slips under recoil from heavy loads much worse with it than with the other two PG guns. For a brief moment I feel a bit out of control of the gun under recoil, not so with the PG ones.

I place much more importance on the grip configuration than the fore end configuration for recoil control. Beavertail forends are useful only for keeping ones' fingers off very hot barrels, not for recoil control.

If everyone is going to split hairs....I do think a pistol grip is more comfortable to shoot at shorter LOP's than straight, and the more extreme the PG the shorter it can go and still be good.

Straight grip needs to be longer to get my mit outta my face.

That being said, I can shoot just about any combo of good bad and ugly just as well, to a degree. Drop at heel as well.....you know where the gun is gunna fit and shoot...and you do it.

Longer in straight grip does feel better than shorter....a short stock with a major Monte Carlo wrap under your pnkie feels good too though...don't think I would like to try it at 15+ inch lop though like my straight grips...still good though?

With the variance in stocks...methinks someone who did not like a straight or Pg stock might not have had one(and only one?) in the hands that actually fit them?

One gun to the shoulder does not make for the best scenario to be making an opinion on what is the "best" for you.

Mark