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Hi all, just was wondering what in your opinion was/is the worst SxS made?
Have Fun!!!!
Greg
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the newer stevens/savage 311 series
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Boy that's a tough one but my vote would go for the clunkers that came out of Belgium and were marketed in places like the Sears catalogue prior to WW II
Jim
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No contest-Henry Ford II's 1947 vintage matched pair of Purdeys-much money expended for, by far, sub par results.
Best,
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Ted,This is a first hand story about those Purdeys. Forty or so years ago, the chairman of a company board[ my employer at the time] was looking at a side lock of mine. Being a very forthright individual he "spat out", the following comment;"Those B----- double guns are no damed good!Last week I shared a blind with H.F.2.He had a pair of those in a case but he could not put the guns together!I shot his and my limit with my model 12!" My Comment was, "Great guns those model 12,s'[I needed to keep my job!]
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Can't speak as to the worst ever,there's just been so many sxs's made over the year's......but the hand's down worst made today has to be the Boito,the .410 espeacilly... it seem's to be the worst made of them all,you would swear the action was carved out with a cold chisel and hammer!!!
Last edited by Newf; 04/30/11 03:52 PM.
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I handled those HF II guns after he had passed away, and the guns went to his son. Henry was a lefty, so the guns had cast on. His son, Edsel is a righty, so he had someone (I don't know who) attempt to remove the cast on. End result was that the butcher reset the locks in the stock, such that the left lock was now proud to the stock and the right lock was tunneled into the stock - both by nearly 1/8" Because that job was done so poorly, the safety didn't work when the guns were returned to Edsel. a friend of mine did what he could to corect the safety problem, and I returned the guns to Edsel
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The spaniard known as the Noble Arms 420. OK maybe not the worst but sufficiently bad in the heat treat dept.
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Win model 24 ugly and has worst trigger placement and design ever
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Could not agree more with you regarding the 24.
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