If you were to buy a new(to you) SxS for hunting.

[Dean Romig]

Nash Buckingham sure seemed to like the English straight stocked guns and he shot some pretty beefy loads in his. But to each his own.

But I think if you want to really tug your gun back into your shoulder while shooting heavy loads a pistol grip IMO has a bit of an advantage.





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[edgarspencer]

I can't imagine how I would feel walking my woods and looking down at anything but a Meriden Parker. I have apologized to my 20ga Model 12 many times.

[Dean Romig]

What Edgar said +1





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[Joe from MO]

Well, the good news is... My guns are not like women, and when I take a different one out for some fun, the ones sitting in the safe at home do not get jealous. I only own one Parker right now, and I enjoy shooting all the various guns I own. So, not quite to the point where I'm only taking out Parkers.....

Good thing Model 12's are so tough, there is no need to apologize to it. :-)

[jeffery c]

A late BSE or B Fox could do all the shooting the fellow was talking about, right? The post 1980 guns had cut checkering and raised ribs. Also, a Winchester 21, or post war NID/LC Smith ought to be good for his purpose and worry free except for steel.

[Joe from MO]

Picked up the Browning yesterday, very happy with the purchase.

It's is in excellent condition, with just a few handling marks on the gun.

And, I got it at a price that I was very comfortable with.

This is the first beavertail forearm SxS I have ever owned, that's gonna take some getting used to..... Wish it was a semi-beavertail, or even a splinter forearm..... But, for the purposes I bought the gun, I am ok with that. Gun has 26" barrels, choked IC/M.

[Bill Murphy]

I have shot birds with many different combinations of brand, gauge, choke, weight, you name it. One gun to shoot coast to coast, ground birds and waterfowl, let me think. A high condition VH Parker 12, 1 1/2 frame, about 7 pounds, choked IC and Full or a two barrel set with open chokes and tight chokes. 26" in the open chokes and anything longer in the tight choked set. Same combination in a Philadelphia Fox A grade.

[Stan Hillis]

I have been a fan of the BSS guns for many years. My first one was a 26" gun, current one is a 30". The right barrel came choked at .018" and I had the left opened up to the same constriction. It has shot many, many limits of ducks here in GA, and in AR, TN and MS. It's my beater gun for ducks, and steel shot. I have shot 1 1/4 oz. loads through it for so long that the right barrel became off face. I shimmed it .003" and it just keeps on going. It's shot mostly 4s, with some 3s thrown in. Very few 2s. No visible barrel damage after all these years.

I agree with Joe about straight grips on heavy recoiling guns, like duck guns. Mr. Nash notwithstanding, I cannot get on a duck with the second barrel as fast with a straight grip gun as I can with a pistol grip one. I have a nice 32" barreled Fox A grade with 3" chambers, straight grip, that I have given up using with heavy loads. My pistol grip 32" HE grade, with bismuth, is the deadliest duck gun I've ever had in my hands. Oh how I wish I could use it with some of my vintage 1 3/8 oz. Super X lead loads, on some "tall ones". I love straight grips on little guns, having two 30" barreled .410 S X S dove guns stocked that way. Recoil doesn't bother me per se, just in how it slows me acquiring the second bird, with a straight grip gun.

BSS and ducks..........





Oh yeah, I can't get the 26" BSS back from the cat .......... he prefers 1 oz. of 9s.

[Dean Romig]

HA - I thought that was Joe Biden’s cat.





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[charlie cleveland]

that sure is some fine looking duck waters you are hunting..those big green heads are awesome...never qwned a browning double but from your hunts it looks like a duck hunting machine.....charlie