O/U vs. SXS

What do you prefer

  • O/U

    Votes: 40 46.5%

  • SXS

    Votes: 46 53.5%
  • Total voters
    86
Gotta be a classic SxS, with double triggers, if I'm invited to shoot with the nobility, otherwise it's gotta be an O/U.
Why?… Because I can shoot higher scores with an O/U.
The wider SxS blocks my view of rising targets, and I prefer the narrower grip of a O/U's beavertail. On the technical side, an O/U is vertically regulated opposed to a SxS's horizontal. And, the O/U is free of the SxS's lateral eccentricity while resolving recoil.
 
Gotta go with Zippy for the same reasons, even though I just picked up a SxS with DT.....

if it's nobility, then something from the likes of DMB, Purdey, H&H, even lowly AyA would get the nod
 
SxS, with double triggers, and exposed hammers.. Because all the critters I've ever seen had eyes like this..

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I'm still chuckling at Zippy's comment ...

but for me its an O/U ...and I'm not likely to wear a kilt and visit the lads in the old country anytime soon on a grouse hunt :eek: - but I would still take an O/U. For me, its the single sight plane that an O/U gives me and I sure don't want any double triggers on a gun .... / I like the single triggers.

I'm only 60 ( not nearly as old as Zippy ...:D) so I was never around any SXS's when I was a young fella ...(nobody in my family had that kind of money) ...so I've never developed an affinity for a SXS.
 
I shoot both. O/u for clays, sxs for upland hunting.

If I had to choose only one it would be o/u but it would be a greatly diminished existence.
 
I shoot both. O/u for clays, sxs for upland hunting.

If I had to choose only one it would be o/u but it would be a greatly diminished existence.
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Same preference here. Having had the opportunities to be allowed to handle, fondle, and shoot some very nice SxS guns, my Savage/Fox BSE is probably going to be sold. (Similar to getting rid of the original old stogy wife for a newer model!.....:D)
 
Ding, ding ding.....we have a weiner! Give that man a "C"-gar!

Agreed, the right answer is vertical barrels for stupid clay and horizontal for pheasants or chukar.

Although I do use a 28 ga O/U for those measly quail in GA nd FL.
 
Although I do use a 28 ga O/U for those measly quail in GA nd FL.
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If those are the "Plantation" or "Preserve" type of quail, a slingshot should be more than adequate with a 410 being overkill............:D
 
now that's just mean ...picking on plantation hunters ...

(where else will the guys from NYC go to hunt and drink heavily / or drink heavily and hunt - without their wives hanging around for a few days ) ..??
 
I shoot an O/u better, but a SxS is sexier. Its a sad fact, but there arent enough wild quail left to hunt in the SE. If it wasnt for pen raised birds there would be no quail hunting anymore. I have a few coveys on my property but, they dont get hunted. Theyre just too valuable. Most of the farms I grew up hunting, are now subdivisions full of northern transplants taking up valuable space while waiting to die. :(
 
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Oh, you guys. Another poll asking me to do the impossible.
I voted sxs because that's what I hunt grouse with
but, y'know, with this trap shooting stuff, my next gun is probably going to be an O/U.
 
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