ScotsGun:

This old Irishman was browsing through the posts and found yours.

So you, a Scotsman, think that an H&H 12 ga. will be buried with you? I always knew the Scots could dream strange dreams (I understand it's your peculiar whisky that does it)

I have not been shooting the CZ much, but I did buy the wife a Remington 1100 Sporting LT 20 last week. It looks and shoots good as my 1100 28 sporting. I just need to get out and shoot all of them more. The 682E is still growing on me and I am getting to the point where instruction from a pro is the next step. It will be too late for the Zone 7 shoot this July, but ought to be just in time for hunting season.

My fav is an old silverworn AyA 12ga SxS from probably the 1950's. I got it close to 20 yrs ago for $100 from a co-worker. It's sawed off to 18" but believe it or not even with the cylinder chokes and those stubby tubes it's pure poison on dove, quail and rabbits in the brush. It's incredibly handy and light and is a joy to carry afield.

It's a well-made gun and an old friend now.

Browning Cynergy 12ga.

My favorite is my Cogswell and Harrison 12 gauge SXS. It was completed September 12, 1906 and is choked IC and #2 Skeet. It will be 100 years old this year and I'm taking it hunting on it's birthday! First time out with it I shot my personal best on skeet.

Mike

I was shooting with a group at the Zone 7 shoot this past week and there were several Synergy Brownings there. Doing quite well I might add, to the distinct pleasure of their owners.
As an update for Zone, I shot the Beretta 682 E Sporting, (32" barrels), and became a choke changer. I don't think that this helped my shooting nor did going to lighter shells(which I really liked better), during this type of shoot. I only shot these loads at the State Championship a few days befor and probably needed a little more practice at tougher targets. The 3dram 7/8oz #8 will break anything on the course including some 70 yard crossers in middi true pairs. (I did need IM), but 6 outa ten was a great score at this station! It was a great shoot! The folks at grouse ridge are fantastic and the grounds are beautiful and well maintained. I was really surprised to see any scores in the 90's, but we had a couple!
Better go now. Dan

My favorite is the Remington Model 31 pump, also the simpler 870. I've owned several much more expensive and elegant doubles but these Remingtons do the job. I also like the Browning A5.

Just ole Dan again. I had an oportunity to shoot a new game for me. It originated in europe and it's called Fitasc. What a kick in the britches. You older hunters ought to like this one. Presentations are varied and tough. Seldom if ever the same presentations. You have a field with 6 to 8 traps throwing crossers, incomers, shondells, and report pairs from the same traps. You move three times changing the angle and order of the presentations. The 682E and me shot a 65 out of a hundered and this was the course used for the Zone 7 Championships. It's a real challange and great fun. Later. Dan

Remington 870 It will be with me in the dove field friday morn. But I'm looking close at the new Italian made Remington Premier O/U.

I'm now and for the rest of my shooting days a A-5 shooter! Always wanted one now I have two my 12ga Mag and my Dad's sweet 16 ga. So I'm in heaven.

I have an OLD Hopkins & Allen single shot falling block 12 ga that my wife got for me for christmas a few years back. It needed a few new parts made to get working. It fits me perfectly. It comes up smooth and everything is in the right spot as soon as it hits my shoulder. On my first outing with it, I busted about a half a box of clay pidgeons and rarely missed. Then a friend and I took a walk around the sage brush and kicked up a cottontail that I hit at about 40 yards.
I have a pre WW2 Belgian Browning A-5 16ga that hasn't been out of the safe since.

My current favorite is an old Marlin Model 90 Over Under. I had the chokes on the 30" barrels opened to Sk and IC and I can hit with it as good or better than any shotgun I've ever owned. I like it so much I bought 2 more. Another 30" barreled 12 Ga and a 28" barreled 20ga.

Weagle

Definitely one of my Browning O/U's. Two really come to mind that are awesome and I seldom miss- 525 Field 12ga and an older Citori Hunter in 20ga. I do have 3 new ones to try out that may move up to that #1 slot. A 525 16ga and 2 Gran Lightning 20ga's. That 16 sure feels great.

This was my dads 870. It was made in the early 50's. He bought it for duck hunting and only went duck hunting one time. He killed a coot and brought it back - it tasted awful and we threw it to the hogs.

It has a full choke barrel but I have since put a modified barrel on it.

I hunt with it a couple times per year. I would never sell it but for most of my hunts I use a Ruger red label.

I have many I like and own,but IF I had to keep only one (this is Hard!)...I would keep my old Browning Belgium A5 3" Auto...it has served me well on many duck and goose hunts! I personally love the way they recoil and love the humpback profile....yes,I have the Benellis,Perazzis,Krieghoffs and more,but my A5 is the "Man" and Never Jams!!

I love several of them, but my favorite is a Remington M11 that was made in 1919. It was purchased by my wife's uncle Lt. Prosper Smith after his return from France at the end of WW1, and used by him as his "cover" as a moonshine and marijuana agent in the 20's and 30s. He wandered around Colorado "pretending" to be a bird hunter and gathering intel. Of course, he had to shoot some birds to keep his cover intact. And he GOT PAID for this job!

That old gun, known in the family as "The Goose Gun", weighs 8.5 lb and is not what I would choose for an upland gun. But Prosper was a really big guy, who added a permanent recoil pad AND a lace-up Redhead pad to make it fit him.

In later years, he liked to plant a small wheat field and mow it around August 15. Doves loved it, and so did we.

I still like to take the old gun out when I'm going to walk little and shoot a lot, like the dove season opener, and remember a great old man.

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Originally posted by weagle:
My current favorite is an old Marlin Model 90 Over Under. I had the chokes on the 30" barrels opened to Sk and IC and I can hit with it as good or better than any shotgun I've ever owned. I like it so much I bought 2 more. Another 30" barreled 12 Ga and a 28" barreled 20ga.

Weagle

My first shotgun was a Marlin o/u. Regrets on selling it.

But my present favorite is my Armas Garbi 20 gauge s x s.

I still love my sporting clays gun: Browning Citori Feather XS 12 ga. The only regret I have is getting 28" bbls instead of 30" but she still shoots great! I have won MANY tournaments with her and I also shot my best score ever (97/100)!

winchester model 1300 featherweight 20 ga, its got nice walnut,i can shoot it great and i havnt seen many other ones.

Browning Citori, 12 gauge, 425, Grade I, Super Ivenctor choke. Briley extended choke tubes.

I have a Stoeger Coach Gun, 12 gauge, nickle plated, 20" bbl. Imp. Cyl. and Mod. choke. Double trigger. For jerks. ---

Rem. 870, Wingmaster. 20" bbl. Imp. Cyl. "riot gun."

Savage/Stevens 411, side/side, 12 gauge 3", choke tubes, 28.5" bbl.


Never met a shotgun I didn't love.

I have Browning A5 magnum that will see it's 51st goose seeason open on Sept. 1 . This is the absolute best waterfowl gun I have ever used ( Inherrited from dad) . For upland birds it's a toss up between a Stevens 311 16 ga. and a Ruger redlable 20 ga.I just got this year( this one has only been used on clays so far but it shoots very well for me ). For rabitts squirles and whatever happens along days, The old Stevens .410/22LR O/U that dad carried for years

There's no room for this one in my safes. It just stands in the corner of a closet to gather dust until I want to go for a walk in the woods.

I've had it for 40-some years and it ain't worth much - probably wouldn't get more than a hundred bucks for it. It's accounted for more grouse, quail, pheasant, ducks, and geese than all my more expensive shotguns combined, not to mention Blacktail Deer, rabbits, squirrels, and coyotes that happened to be within range when I was out walking.

Nope, it's not worth much. It's more of a companion than anything else - something that I can turn to and know that it will be there, dependable and reassuring. How much is the time you spend with a dear friend worth?



Namibiahunter

I love my Winchester model 24 20 ga and my biakal 20 ga.I shoot grouse with them.I love to catch Ruffs on the rise wioth #5.I want another model 24 20 ga.

two actually, and both from my Grandfather. His two Winchester 12 gauges, a Model 24 and a takedown 1897. I fit an extra barrel to the '97 and shoot tungsten in it on Canadians once or twice a year.

Rich
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Originally posted by namibiahunter:
There's no room for this one in my safes. It just stands in the corner of a closet to gather dust until I want to go for a walk in the woods.

I've had it for 40-some years and it ain't worth much - probably wouldn't get more than a hundred bucks for it. It's accounted for more grouse, quail, pheasant, ducks, and geese than all my more expensive shotguns combined, not to mention Blacktail Deer, rabbits, squirrels, and coyotes that happened to be within range when I was out walking.

Nope, it's not worth much. It's more of a companion than anything else - something that I can turn to and know that it will be there, dependable and reassuring. How much is the time you spend with a dear friend worth?



Namibiahunter

Priceless...

Have had numerous shotguns over the years and would say that the two favorites for me are the Winchester Model 12/12gauge,28" modified and a pristine Browning A5 Belgium Light Twelve with two barrels. I look at some of the current offerings on today's market, including Browning, and the butt plate alone on my A5 has more quality and workmanship(FN/Browning Automatic) than some of the shotguns being touted as the latest and greatest and marvelous "gas systems..." Old school all the way, that's me!

Any quality OU, but my current favorite is a Beretta Ultralight Deluxe - what a pleasure to carry. I regret selling my Winchester 101 Grand European, I think I liked it as much or better than my beretta. Lou

Namibiahunter:

The shotgun in your picture (Mod.12, non take down?) is very modern compared to my Win.97, straight grip, hammer, 12 ga., mod.choke, 28" bbl -with which I shot ruffed grouse at the rate of perhaps, 10-12 out of a box of 25 shells. Not ever again with any shotgun did I come close to such an average. Being a teenager with two successful seasons behind him, I informed my father that I wanted a "modern" shotgun. He urged me to stay with a killing shotgun. I ignored my father. Of course, that was unusual for a teenager! I still remember that old 97 and as`a quite old man I can say that I owned a lot of quite expensive shotguns since then that never came near as good on ruffs. Damn! I was never very good at gun trading.

Back in the 40's ? my dad bought this Remington double 12 from a guy for $50.00... He shot a lot of deer with it, along with ducks, pheasants and other small game. It had 30" bbls and was choked quite tight.



I have 4 brothers, and every one of us used this shotgun when we were kids, man we harvested a PILE of meat for the freezer with it!! Over the years the stock became cracked, nails put in it, taped and glued with screws in it!! Then one day my brother fired it with some snow in the end of one bbl, and buldged that bbl badly!!! Dad took a hacksaw and sawed "that" bbl off, leaving the other one long. For many years after that we fired the shorter bbl that had less choke for close shots, and used the longer "choked bbl" for longer shots!

By the time the 80's rolled around, i got the double from dad, and after a time i decided to "fix it all up"... I cut the bbls even, at 27-5/8", blued the gun, and even put a nice piece of Claro walnut on it!! One sear had sheared off the hammer, so i fixed that and also replaced all the springs in it, as one was broken and another had been repaired.



Trust me, it looks MUCH better than these picts are showing it here!!!



I saw this checkering on a shotgun, and i really liked it, so it went on my "old" Rem. too...





The last time i hunted phesants with this double, my dog flushed two roosters, and i made a double, a right and a left.... I picked them up, and went about 100 yards and my dog flushed another set of roosters, and i made another double, a right and a left....

Man, i love this old shotgun!!!

DM

my all time fav is ithaca 37 16 ga but wing hunting i love the franchi al48 12ga

My latest 16ga, Browning 525 is a real sweety on pheasant.

I have one of the original target grade Beretta 390 golds. Traded the gold receiver off to someone for a black one so I didn't have to worry out in the field about scratches and stuff, and have absolutely shot the heck out of the gun. Beautiful wood - no jams - averaged 45 on the clays course, and hit most(like I said most), of the live birds I shoot at.

My Browning Citori.

I bought it new in 1985 when we put our first skeet field in at our range. It's a 12 ga Trap model with 30" barrels. I modified the stock to fit me and had it fitted with Briley tubes for 20 and 28 ga and .410.

I've shot somewhere around 200,000 shells through it and have won many trap, skeet, and sporting clays tournaments with it. I even made an all state skeet team with it.

I've only had to replace the hammer springs twice and the ejector stop screws once.

Its a toss up, either my Rem 1100 16ga or browning sweeet 16.

My Browning Citori Grade VI. It shoots as good as it looks.

that would be my grandfather's (now mine) Winchester Model 24 12 gauge Pheasant Grade.
Man that shotgun has killed a lot of birds...

Rich
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I've had a few that I will never get rid of and one I wish I never would have sold.

I had a Beretta 682 customized by Briley with a slick paint job that was my sporting clays gun for a few years. I shot that thing better than any gun I've ever had. So of course, me being me, I had to sell it.

The family heirloom is a Remington 3200 Target grade that was custom engraved by Angelo Bee before it ever had the trigger pulled. A truly beautiful gun. I think it will go to my brother, which is ok with me, he is deserving.

A few K-80's and a couple of Perazzi's have come and gone but none of them really stuck to me.

My new Browning Citori Satin Lightning chambered in 12 gauge 3 1/2 inch. It's just a plain old field gun, no fancy scrollwork at all but I can't get enough of it. It's almost becoming an obsession.

I'm even considering getting it tubed for other gauges as I've been absolutely tearin up the rabbits with the 12 gauge. I need somethin smaller to salvage more meat for the pot.

A simonized 1924 nickel steel win mod 12 12g built fitted trap gun with ribbed 30 inch full choked barrel,rem 870 wingmaster 12 trap gun with field,skeet & trap barrels.

TBear99:

As a fellow New Yorker, I'm ashamed of you for saying that you prefer the Ithaca Mod.37! This quite old man (who remembers the dinosaurs) bought a Mod.37 at a tender age. (I traded in a Win.97 -with which I was shooting ruffed grouse at a rate of nearly 11-12 shells a box - a feat I never again reached with a shotgun) My complaint about the Mod.37 was that it was (ironically) too light so that I swung too fast -and secondly, (now, here it comes, TBear) Because I always used to set myself in a half crouch, the empty on the first shot would hit my thigh and that distracted me. Yeah, yeah, I see you rolling your eyes - well, Hey! That's my excuse for missing. Honestly, though, I didn't like the Mod.37. Oh, well, as the old lady said who kissed the cow" Each to his own taste".