Why over under shotgun

Some may question the benefits of a Over-Under Shotguns like this and only cite the disadvantages. An over-under shotgun is a double-barreled, break action shotgun.

Where most double-barreled shotguns have the barrels placed side by side, this shotgun has one placed on top of the other.

The specific features will vary based on gauge. Common gauges are 20 gauge, 28 gauge, and 12 gauge. The one chosen should always be based on what works best for you, and suits your preferences. Some will have two triggers, while others will have a single trigger and a switch that allows you to select which barrel will be fired so you can alternate between double and single shots. There are very few moving parts to these shotguns, which makes them reliable, particularly in areas with inclement weather.

Further, the barrel never wavers; the muzzle maintains its place in the area of the target. In contrast, a person inexperienced with a pump gun has the muzzle waving about during the pumping operation. That pumping operation itself may also be anything but perfect.

Perhaps the actual pumping will start too late after the first shot has been taken. Perhaps the fore-end will not be brought all the way to the rear, which usually results in either a failure to eject or a failure to feed the next round properly. Watching a person operate a pump gun perfectly is like watching someone ride a horse to perfection. The shotgunner's control is impeccable. Over-under shotguns are popular these days, but that popularity is seen most often in the various clay target sports.

These guns are also seen often in upland shooting, where a light over-under is the ticket. Light over-under shotguns are not seen in duck blinds. With today's heavy loads of nontoxic shotshells, such guns simply kick too much. But a shooter who competes with an over-under all year can be very effective in any waterfowling situation if using the same gun, or a similar one.

Although a shooter is restricted to two shots, at least no pumping is required. Consequently, the muzzle can stay right in the area of the bird s --with no unnatural pulling way off the target s.

In a blind, however, an over-under has to be broken to a greater angle than a side-by-side for ejecting empties and reloading. When any double gun with ejectors is opened the duck or goose person who has shot the gun should be aware of the direction he or she is "kicking" out the empties.

We don't want those fast-flying hulls hitting our shooting partners. To open an over-under fully to do the ejecting--and the reloading--it takes some extra room. Opening the gun so far can be a problem, depending upon the size of the blind. The story that made Nash as a writer was maybe De Shootinest Gent'man, and it starred a great shooter, Harold Money, who shot a pump gun.

But he never missed--in 25 tries! But those were the days of lead loads and 11? I don't want to be shooting an old side-by-side in the 21st century with modern shotshells that scream out the muzzle at 1,fps or close to it.

And everything else is right there where it can be cleaned or dried out if the weather has been rainy or misty. There, one can reassemble the piece and visit the local range for sporting clays, or trap and skeet shooting.

First of all, no double-barrel shotgun shoots to the same point of aim with each barrel. Out to that distance the two barrels may be close, but they are still on different planes instead of the single sighting plane of a pump or semi-auto gun.

There is no doubt that a fixed-breech shotgun recoils more than a pump or semi-auto. A gauge double-barrel shotgun, either with stacked barrel or side-by-side, will pound the shoulder harder. For those folks, a pump or semi-auto will be more comfortable to shoot.

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