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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Most O/U's look like a "poisoned pub who has laid in the sun too long" -- Elmer Keith
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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I've only owned SxSs my entire life. The first O/U I ever got to shoot was a Citori and that poisoned my mind against O/Us. I managed to fire 4 rounds before returning the gun to its owner and later that day, to be polite, shot two more. I have never touched a Citori again.
Now maybe if my first O/U experience had been with a Boss or a Rizzini RBEL...who knows?
The low-end Beretta model 68Xs aren't as ugly or as clunky as the Citori.
But the damage was done and I'm still happy with my SxSs.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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I know this is a sxs versus o/u thread, but just one quick post about triggers. I have a Laurona with double single triggers, and I can't understand why it isn't THE trigger for all double guns.
CHAZ
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Sidelock
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Never fired one but have heard about them - they sound intriguing but it sounds sort of like a very clever invention that really isn't needed.
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Sidelock
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I am doubly admirable and only half bullheaded. I have a really nice Super "twin-single" and an equally nice Merkel 200e. Both have dual controls. Also have a Sauer 66 that I got from Daryl H. here and a salt-era Diana Super and old Browning GTI war club which is my goto and ligament stretcher; all single trigger. I had a Browning 425SC and I shot it well but it was the only ovah-unda I've had the looks of which I could not abide. I sold it and lost money on the Seminole chokes which went with it. I also sold a Beretta Silver Snipe which I liked but couldn't hit anything with. Also gone is a 20 ga. Citori Superlight from the 80s. I couldn't shoot it either but I sure liked the looks of the little thing. I also had a very ancient Superposed skeeter from the thirties and I sold it. Just slight regrets there. Anda anda anda. No, that's all of em.
jack
Last edited by rabbit; 06/27/11 06:18 PM.
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Sidelock
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Toby Leeds took my 20-g 686 and did to the stock what Beretta should have done. 
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Sidelock
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He did a hell of a good job.
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Sidelock
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Nice work. Ask him to put some leather on the pad.
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Sidelock
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Really nice - the straight grain at the wrist is very impressive and the way it becomes so highly figured towards the butt is really nice.
Impressive gun! Thank you for sharing the pix.
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Sidelock
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Sidelock
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Not as nice as GJZ's, but this is Cole's "field grade" wood on my 20 O/U with the double trigger upgrade. It replaced Beretta's Louisville Slugger grade wood. 
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