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Originally Posted by Dean Romig
I don't buy that...
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Mind justifies the heart and I love my sxs's as much as next guy that also enjoy's theirs. But for sake of discussion and if someone is neutral and faced with the knowledge of pros and cons for of choosing between an O/U, SXS, or Semi Automatic then its a knock. Might not matter to the weekend warrior busting brush but if the game is at the highest level of competitive shooting then it might be a factor. Hence someone suggessted or asked why don't you see the pros using SXS in competition well...this might be one of the reasons. It might not be "the" reason but I am also not a competitive shooter.
Heck for some reason I have a Ruger O/U in arsenal that was designed for sporting clays. It definitely works in that environment pretty well and I shoot in the 80's with it pretty consistently but I don't shoot that much. Take my sxs's to same course and I lose 8 to 10 breaks. Is it me or the gun, it could be mostly me and some gun, (more likely), or it could be mostly gun and a little bit of me. My vote is against me but results are the same. BTW I did take that Ruger on a quail hunt once and crushed it, but at the end of the day I was fatigued some. That gun also weighs about 2.5 pounds more than my sxs's so lugging it around in the brush was not as fun.
Could it be that some gun flexing is putting target in edge of pattern more than with other, maybe. But if difference in winning or loosing comes down to one clay in a competition which gun do you choose. Hence, there are many lighter O/U's I can lean to and have a lighter O/U that I can carry into the woods and I shoot it very well for me. But I like the look, feel and the way a sxs carries in the field. I have the luxury of choice. But there are many young shooters that don't have that choice and if they can pick a more utilitarian gun that is a double gun, then they lean to the O/U and don't look back.
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