Side by Side Shotguns

[R Cubed]

Who's got on? I saw a s/s (@ a Bizillion $$$) with Fancy inlay and engraving, as said to myself, 'Darn' - that nice to look at...

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I have a Rossi Coach Gun, 12 gauge, bought it way back in 1973.

 

[dlstewart01]

I have a 1980 like new Browning BSS sporter, 20 gage English stock, automatic ejectors, single selective trigger, modified/improved, 26 inch barrels. One of my better buys. My favorite shotgun.

Had an Ithaca SKB in 20 gage but sold it a couple years ago. Havn't missed it all that much.

 

[Farmer17]

I bought a CZ Ringneck 20 gauge with 28" barrels and single trigger. I love the gun and the case hardened receiver and engraving are simply beautiful and so is the wood, and I get compliments all the time at the skeet range.
I have fired many thousands of rounds through it and it is still tight and it would be one of my very last guns to go.

 

[Rikkn]

I just got 3 this week, a J Stevens A&T 325 ( found out they only made it from 1904 to 1908 - 4000 made !! ), a James Parker, and a WW Greener. Also got s really cool single barrel, a Cogswell & Harrison Side hammer pinfire from about 1840. Very limited info on the Greener and C&H.

 

[dovekiller]

Good subject.

I have 2. Both are Winchester Model 23 Pigeon Grade. One 12, one 20. The 12 is mod/full but the 20 has Briley Thin-Wall chokes installed.

Quite possibly the most instinctively shootable guns the world has ever seen. Just pick one up and it starts to hum. It wants to kill something.

I've been told that some English doubles are like that. But I don't have that sort of money.

 

[Alpo]

An even dozen. Got two Rossi Overlands - one coach gun and one cut down to a pistol. Got three 410 doubles, just waiting for my granddaughters to get old enough to shoot CAS. And got four 12 gauge and three 16 gauge Husqvarna underlevers. Generally a Husky has 75cm (29 3/4") barrels, but one of the 16s as 70s. That gun is just total joy to handle. All the 16s swing better than the 12s, but this one feels like it's a part of me.

 

[s&wchad]

Side by sides are OK.

 

[Stevens]

I have my Grandpa's old L C Smith 16 GA nothing fancy but a great gun.
Steve

 

[VAdoublegunner]

Oh, I have a few, hence the forum name. I'm partial to L.C. Smiths for American vintage shotguns. Also like Browning BSSs (I have the twin brother to your 20ga BSS Sporter, s&wchad), and a few others. I've really enjoyed owning and shooting one of the seldom seen, or so it would seem, early production Ruger Gold Labels. A good effort by Ruger with a lot going for it, and likely a last hurrah for a major American manufacturer production doublegun. Too bad they have passed into shotgun history. I've been seriously tempted by one of the S&W Gold Elite 20ga.

 

[DelavanKs]

I bought a nice Fox a year or so ago

Shoots where I point it with low brass
CHUCK

 

[Class III]

I've got seven. An Ithaca SKB Model 200 20 ga., Winchester Model 21 20 ga. and 12 ga. Winchester Model 24 12 ga., Darne R13 20 ga. and two OLD rabbit ears guns that sit in the closet as "Burglar Bait", as in damascus barrels and 2-1/2" chambers. Inhereted the Ithaca/SKB. Winchesters were taken as partial payment of a debt owed to me. But the Darne, that's a different story. I saw it at my gunsmiths shop and had to have it. He contacted the owner and I traded a Win Model 21 and a Ruger single six for the Darne.

Class III

 

[31 Pump]

I like them too !!!

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Any fine old double American made is a joy in the beholding. Only have one left. A Win. Model 24 16 gauge with 26 inch barrels. Bought it in 1951 used. It shoots better than I can.LOL.

 

[m657]

Huglu Sidewinder 12g cowboy coach gun...

Rossi 12g muley coach style...

 

[walnutred]

I used to collect sxs shotguns, my only requirements were American made and 16ga. I had 27 different ones before I decided to sell them off. Now I only have a 16ga Hunter Arms, a 16ga Baker and an older 12ga BRNO.

 

[EQGuy]

Here is a bad photo of my Remington 1894 EEO. It was made in 1898 and has complete coverage engraving. One of these days I need to take better photos of it. I have had it for a while now.

 

[mississippi revolverman]

Got two doubles. An Itacha SKB with English stock 20 ga for rabbit hunting. The other an old Stevens 16 ga "altered" to 18 1/2 " loaded with #2 buck for Bad guy hunting

 

[s&wchad]

EQGuy,
Your Remington is lovely. Thank you for sharing!

 

[M29since14]

Yes, that Remington is beautiful! We really should have a couple more pictures.

Side-by-side shotguns are one of those curious inventions that look like nothing special, or maybe even a good idea gone wrong, but there is nothing better to carry in the field, and a practiced hand can do some pretty impressive shooting with them on the target range, too. I have couple, of modest quality (Browning and SKB), and someday hope to have one a bit more sophisticated. I have always had an eye for one, so a 20- or 28-gauge Parker would be nice. Then, there are the modern doubles of Italian manufacture...