My first shotgun was an Elsie. I hunted with her from the time I was 15 until I could afford a stack barrel gun, sometime in my twenties.

Two things about that little Browning that sent me back to SxSs was the lack of the second trigger AND the discomfort of carrying her from cover patch to cover patch.

Stack barrels do not ride in the crook of my arm or across the top of my shoulder as comfortably as a SxS.

As I grew older and could afford more guns, the slab side of an O/U action became quite homely to my eye.

To this day those are still the reasons that the only O/V in my safes is that Browning.

bc