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Actually the O/U presents a better canvas for engraving than a SxS.....Ed

I'm in agreement on the Citori being a good value. A new sporting CX can be had for around $1700.00 maybe less if you shop around. Barely used field guns are available on the cheap. One thing about a Citori is it can be rebuilt fairly inexpensively and parts are easily obtainable. Not so with some other brands.

I went all the way back to muzzle loaders..ended up with That Scotts personal 9 bore Blisset one of the finest guns ever made...then on to cartridge hammer guns before choke then to big ten gauge hammer guns with choke and real killing power...then to a few 2.5 box lock toys closed out with a 1925 2&3/4" Scott sidelock.

Now I've graduated to O/Us and I've still got the finest automatic ever made a Benelli SBE.

John Browning was on to something....truth is I think I like the O/Urs better than the SxSs.

This is the first Browning Superposed that I've ever owned 1959 vintage solid rib 30" barrel and I like it as good or better than any SxS I ever owned.

Nice superposed. I have one in 20 gauge and it is one of the best fitting and handling guns I have. Which is something as most over/unders I don't like.

the superposed is a pre war design that captures the spirit of the classic sxs...kudos to val browning and to fn for not giving up, after american arms makers rejected it...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_A._Browning

Didn't they thumb their nose at the A5.

That �White Line� pad is you.

Best,
Ted

Winchester did- they refused to give John M. Browning a royalty on every A-5 produced, so Browning tried Remington- UMC. The CEO- Marcellus Hartley Dodge died of a heart attack, before the deal was done, so Browning hiked over the pond to FN in Liege- and the rest is history. Winchester lost out on the auto-loading shotgun market big-time. If Mr. Bennett had agreed to John Brownings terms, WRA would have dominated the US repeating shotgun market.

Since you want to tell me what I need in a pigeon gun ........... sit back for a sec and hear this. A Benelli SBE ain't the best (semi) automatic ever made. I've hunted ducks, and other stuff, alongside many of them in other's hands, and have seen them fail to feed numerous times. They need to be meticulously clean, and need plentiful oil, to function right. The inexpensive Beretta 390 will shoot circles around the SBE with a whole lot less fussing over. Mine went to the bottom of the Bayou Meto once, submerged in all the silt and rotten leaves. I poured the mud, water and trash out of wherever it would come out of, checked the bore, and reloaded it. She went back to killing ducks without one failure to eject or feed. If you think a SBE will do that you're living in a dream world.

Evidently you're another who thinks if they pay more they get more.

SRH