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27-06-2005, 10:30 AM
Sacha
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On 27/6/05 9:01, in article
, "Harold
Walker" wrote:
There were some really fine guns made to both patterns, but the best O&U
ones I've seen were the fixed barrel types.
Side-by-sides only really started quite well into the flintlock period.
I think the prejudice was just snobbery because O-Us
_were_ actually cheaper and perhaps don't look so nice. I don't mind
snobbery about self-loading automatics, though, which is about
sportsmanship, not money.
The Captain of at least one of the local syndicates uses an
over-and-under - indeed, I've never seen him with a side-by-side...
Is it possible that the O&U prejudice started not just because they were
cheaper to make but because they actually *are* more accurate and
therefore
gave the birds less of a 'sporting chance'?
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Somehow or other I suspect that the gun I used for poaching does not belong
in "this arena"....it was a .22 BSA airgun...H
Ah. But did it fold up?
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