I shot a #2 frame GHE live bird gun on flyers for approx. 1 year, as an experiment to see what it must have been like back in the day. Never won a shoot with it, but hit quite a few 2nd & 3rd place over-alls.
It evolved into a friendly Winchester vs. Parker rivalry between me, and Don Criswell.
Don made a funny little reference to our "competition" when he signed my M-21 book.
Anyway, IMO, a SxS on pigeons is most effective when used with a trap load in the first bbl, and ideally nothing more than a 3 ¼ dram 1 ¼ oz 2nd bbl load.
I don’t shoot pigeons very much now-a-days, but when I do, I shoot trap loads in both bbls of a Perazzi SC3, with a release trigger.
I’ll admit to preferring the O/U on box birds, but think the edge goes slightly to the SxS for hand thrown birds.
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