![]() ![]() Some shotgun shooting sports, such as skeet shooting, use crossing targets presented in a narrow range of distance, and only require one level of choke. One significant advantage that doubles have over single-barrel repeating shotguns is the ability to have more than one choke at a time. When hammerless designs started to become common, the over-and-under design was introduced, and most modern sporting doubles are over-and-under designs. Early cartridge-firing shotguns also used the side-by-side action, because they kept the exposed hammers of the earlier muzzleloading shotguns from which they evolved. The original double-barreled guns were nearly all S×S designs, which was a more practical design for muzzleloaders. over-and-under (O/U) - the two barrels are arranged vertically.side-by-side (S×S) - the two barrels are arranged horizontally.See also: coach gun and sawed-off shotgunĭouble-barreled shotguns come in two basic configurations:
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