Side x sides ruin you

[Bruce Day]

I had a Browning Auto-5 20ga and still have a Browning Superposed 20ga. I appreciate each for their workmanship but boy did they beat me up. I could not get the Auto 5 to consistently cycle with 7/8 loads so had to use 1oz. I would shoot 50 rounds or worse yet 100 rounds at clays and there were times when it actually left a buttstock shaped bruise in my shoulder pocket. I sold the Auto 5 but the Superposed does the same with 7/8 oz loads.

I can shoot a Parker 20 weighing 6 1/4 lbs at 100 7/8 rounds and I’m not beat up or bruised at all. I have not found the Brownings pleasurable to shoot. I can understand that with the drop of the Auto 5’s but I don’t understand it with the Superposed. None of the guns had recoil pads. On the Auto 5 I stacked the magazine tube rings as directed and had the proper lube on it .