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my experiences with japanese made skb brand guns have been excellent...good shooting and reliable hunting guns...

understand skb brand guns, made in turkey, are now being imported...any experience you wish to share here?

I haven't read all 17 pages, I do want to say that I have brought 8 people into the fold in the last 10 years. 3 are in their 20's. Take someone shooting and let them actually try a decent sxs.

Nah, that's a funny joke. I was sold!

mark, good for you...maybe there is still hope...

most sxs guns are decently made...problems occur when people try to use hunting guns as target guns...

In my head...in your dreams.

Ed that would be scary out of the junk you sell.

and what we have not discussed here is aesthetics...

the image of the classic prewar sxs field gun is very pleasing to the eye, from most any angle...

on the contrary, the post war o/u target gun, is to be frank, rather ugly, regardless of the viewing angle...

here is a simple test...hang a classic sxs on the wall and step back and admire the beauty and harmony of its lines and observe how everything flows to create a natural dynamic mean, at the tip of the splinter forend...then hang your favorite o/u on the wall. what do you see? just a rather boring, clubby looking, mundate thing, that does a very good job of breaking clay birds...

as someone once asked, why kill a beautiful bird with an ugly gun?

My post did get back on topic with the observation that a Fake News bloviater deserved a presentation grade Purdey Best as a quitters gift for an abbreviated 15 year career of self-described greatness King.

The little thumbnail of Ronald Reagan is my new temporary tagline. You didn't like my old tagline either because it noted that I am a Benefactor member of the NRA. And we all know how often you denigrate and insult the NRA.

I plan to change my tagline in the near future to reflect my devotion to preserving the 2nd Amendment. I know how much you like to undermine the 2nd Amendment too, but our continued ownership of double guns relies upon it, so it will certainly be more on-topic than a lot of crap you and other Trolls like you post here.

EDIT: Members will note that you only pretend to IGNORE me, usually when you wish to run away from my response to your crap. What a fraud you are.

Over here in the U.K., and certainly in Scotland there are plenty of side by sides in daily use and that are being passed on to beginners. However they are all older guns.

When I was a kid in the 1980s the default for most new shooters was the AyA Yeoman, or the Gunmark Kestral. They were at a price point for a16 year old to afford after a summer working on a farm and a bit of help from grandparents. I can stil picture my new AYA yeaoman in its box.

Nowadays the cheapest side by side is a few thousand. Instead new shooters are buying over and under Berattas, ReVos, Rizzinis etc. Any number of these available new for sub �1,000, and in many case sub �700.

So new entrants are buying and using over and unders which is what they can buy and what the clay pigeon clubs / schools use as teaching guns.

I am sure it�s a fashion thing, and no reason why an affordable side by side cannot be made and marketed. Just nobody has.

There are affordable new S x Ss out there, Heym. Once people get past their "blind spot" about where they're made, they recognize the fact.

What's a ReVo?

SRH