The last great champion of the S X S in the big money pigeon competition was Billy Perdue. He started out with a 21, switched to a Parker and shot it loose, shot a Purdey for 21 years after bending the barrels to shoot to where he wanted, then ordered a Fabbri. It came with 28" barrels which he didn't like so he ordered another. He had switched to a single trigger and believed that Fabbri had the best single trigger in the world. Oddly enough, one of the Fabbris had regulation issues and is still floating around the South with stickers all over the buttstock from flyer shoots around the world.

Just goes to show that good guns are where you find them. A big name and a big price tag guarantees nothing, even though it should. The pattern plate tells all, and never lies. As much faith as I have in Perazzis I would never blindly use one without patterning it to verify regulation and to make certain it shot where it was supposed to for me. I will go out on a limb and say that at least three-fourths of the shotgunners in America have never shot a pattern plate or paper to verify that their gun is shooting where it should, and that most of them are not!!

SRH

May God bless America and those who defend her.