Over and unders are just more prolific and available. However, one of the reasons for the popularity of good condition live pigeon/wildfowl/magnum SxS doubles by good makers over the last decade has been demand from those guns shooting high birds with bigger loads who appreciate (or are more used to)SxS doubles.
The UK shooting magazines have now got into an annual ritual of having a 'Top 20 Guns' style feature, with nominated shots being interviewed and their choice of game gun, choke and cartridge listed.
If you want proper high birds, you have to go to proper high bird shoots, like Warter Priory. Most are in Yorkshire, Devon/Exeter and Wales. The 300-500 partridge day at Warter probably cost 2,500-3000 per gun, which is around $3,850-4,620.
I do like my partridge shooting!
Tim
