HankBuck
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ROOKHAWK: Just can’t find any reason to argue against the “safety” of either any SxS, O/U, or Semi & Pump regarding Muzzle direction-safe pointing etc…—-ALL muzzles MUST always point in a “SAFE direction”. Agree autos//Pumps require some attention regarding how many shells should be loaded and “one” round is enough for Beginners. As far as getting hit in the Face with ejected Hulls - have seen it occasionally during a round of skeet (by adults) but never on a round of 5 Stand —- how close our your stands? Or how big are the “Faces”? Cleaning up the hulls — gotta agree with you there as they can be rolling all over the place after a round. At my skeet club - you must pick up your hulls “after” round is over OR before you leave the Club — also when No active round is being shot. Any Kid (or any Adult) seen being “Unsafe” gets immediately warned or removed from the Club. If it’s a Member they can be suspended and if it’s a “Guest” then the Guest AND Member both are warned and or removed/suspended. The few beginning kids I’ve watched are monitored very closely - New adults seem less “obedient“ then Kids and think they know better….Kids lack the ego and admit they are beginners. Seeing any kid with a SxS is very rare and don’t recall ever seeing a Kid shoot a SxS for Skeet or Sporting ClaysI've not found that to be the case. All my children use break actions and have since they were 6 or 7. Buying a used one whether a Spanish/English side by side, or a used Beretta 686 O/U, they open by gravity. One of my clan struggled to overcome the southgate ejector resistance when he was little, but figured out in one day to put the stock under his arm and get a bit more leverage.
As to getting hit in the face by hulls, its almost always the kids. The entitled, unsafe, kids. I pay good money to join private clubs and almost all the grown ups figured out that you can't shoot five stand without hitting your neighbor with hulls using pumps and side by sides, and its very annoying watching them gather their ejecta between rounds which holds up the game. (IF they pick up the hulls at all)
As it pertains to the exceptions, people that claim they or their kid is very safe with their pump or auto, I find most of them unaware of their lack of safety. I've been pointed at and swung through hundreds of times by people that have no comprehension of their muzzle. It makes me want to turn their gun into a "Break action" in front of their very eyes.
So as pertains to me, remember I'm a curmudgeon. I don't like badly behaved dogs and children. (most of them) There is nothing cute about them to me. Most people feel the same way but aren't so blunt and direct about it. Everybody at the club is thinking it, I'm saying it. Get kids a break action gun and raise young ladies and gentlemen.