I like hammer guns, and my 100+ year old Parker hammer gun still works just fine, and it's been shot close to three times a week for the last ten years. I also shoot a number of Remingtons that haven't broke. What's nice about American SxS's is that if you need a part they don't have to be handmade. Our are guns aren't as light as a European made gun, but that's fine with me. For the most part, they were made for the farmer and working man and do just fine for what they were intended for. A friend and I were at the Southern about eight years ago and he bought a English gun, a Johnson. Had the trunk open and his gun and my Parker were leaning against the back of my car. Something happened causing both guns to slide over and hit the ground. His gun hit mine and lay on top of it. He just bought it ten minutes before, and now there was a dent on those beautiful Damascus barrels. Had to kind of rub it in saying how that nice, light, English double dented and my Parker didn't have a mark on it. To each their own.
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Paul Harm
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