There are few certainties in life, but one is that if you book a clay shooting lesson, you’ll be handed an over-and-under. You can understand why. To begin with, a best British game gun will be like learning to drive in a track car with a finely tuned race-spec chassis — the sort of machine that exacerbates your every mistake. For a beginner, the same may be true with a side-by-side — you need some skill and knowledge to use one.
Once you learn the basics of technique and the fundamentals of how to make a successful shot, then a side-by-side can open up new heights of performance as long as you understand how it
