Shotguns

[LongWalker]

For the past 25+ years, I've mostly shot roundball in my double shotguns.  Having moved back to decent bird-hunting country, I'm thinking I might take up wingshooting again (not that I was ever any good at it).  Who makes a decent SxS shotgun these days?  My old Belgian double handles like a truck axle, and weighs too much for anything other than shooting roundball. 

[rollingb]

I haven't kept up with the latest regarding muzzleloader doubles and who is making them,.... but I'd love to find a nice double flinter in 20 ga. for sale. 

I've done VERY little "shot shooting" with my trade guns since I started acquiring them.
I might have to do something about that this summer.   

[LongWalker]

I've shot some with a SxS double 20 flintlock.  I can miss with them too!  I did OK wingshooting with my first NWG, a very light 24 gauge.  It was a great little dove gun--I could usually get at least a few birds with it.  Before the ban on lead shot, I got to hunt ducks a couple times with an original 7' long Hudson Valley fowling piece (didn't say I hit anything).

My current double is a Belgian gun, about middle-of-the-road for quality, but it was definitely made for waterfowl shooting.  Once this thing gets moving, not even I could stop the swing.  It is nice for shooting ball (bored the same as a Brown Bess), and I've taken a number of deer and wild hogs with it, but it just isn't a gun I want to be hunting doves or quail or pheasants with. 

[Darren Haverstick]

Pedersoli makes a beautiful flinter SxS that I have heard nothing but good things about. I have conversed with a guy who uses his all the time to hunt upland birds. I keep putting money aside to buy one but then I see a pretty longbow and, well, I have to start saving all over again.

Darren

[PetahW]

I keep putting money aside to buy one but then I see a pretty longbow and, well, I have to start saving all over again.

Darren

We all have multiple addictions (sigh)   

[Nessmuk]

Which is your favorite Muzzleloader? Why, the NEXT one, of course! 

[No Powder]

That was a good one Nessmuk

[Ironhand]

+1 for the Pedersoli. Probably the best production gun available. If you can find a used Beretta o/u they are very good. 12ga and no chokes but really good.

IronHand

[Feltwad]

Pedersoli makes a beautiful flinter SxS that I have heard nothing but good things about. I have conversed with a guy who uses his all the time to hunt upland birds. I keep putting money aside to buy one but then I see a pretty longbow and, well, I have to start saving all over again.

Darren

Every man to his own but for me the Pedersoli  sxs flinter is not  for me no comparison to a original  British sxs flintlock
Feltwad

[LongWalker]

I think Feltwad has a most-excellent point: even the mid-range stuff of the past handles different (and for some of us, better) than the modern reproductions.  Some years back I had a double-flint made by Ketland.  I even shot a round of sporting clays with it (only such round I've ever shot, can't understand the attraction, but many folks don't understand my obsessions).  The problem with the gun was that I tend to prefer a larger bore in a double. 

So like an absolute IDIOT I traded it off, for what I can't remember.  I've handled but not shot a Pedersoli, not "bad" but different.  Another guy might prefer the Pedersoli to the Ketland. . . .  Heck, I once watched VM Starr shoot a round of trap (another game I don't understand) using a double not much different than my current Belgian double.  As I recall though, he had a much lighter 14 gauge for upland gunning. 

I need to go to some farm auctions this summer, and see watch shows up out of the barns. 

[Darren Haverstick]

The main reason I mentioned the Pedersoli is because I cannot find a SxS flintlock, brand new, that I can afford. The few that I've been able to find started at 3K and went up from there. Hell, even the used ones that I found that were worth looking at were almost that expensive.

Darren

[Feltwad]

I must agree British sxs flintlock sporting guns in top condition  hold a good price  Enclosed are images of a sxs UK flintlock which I restored  that was in poor condition  at the latter end of 2022 .This gun turned out   reasonable but not pristine but a gun that is 200years old must look its age and not something like new straight off the shelf this one of the biggest faults of restoration
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[Hank in WV]

I have to say, your work is pretty amazing.