Although I prefer to shoot a 16ga for just about everything, I have been bit by the 28ga bug. I love my 10ga guns. I have 3 Remington SP-10s. I also have a Richland Arms 32" O/U-currently at Briley getting choke tubes, that is a peach to shoot thanks to a very overbore design, but its HEAVY! No I'm not a pussy, so don't even go there.

I found and purchased a NIB/Old Stock couldn't sell Cynergy Sporting with 30in pipes and Diana grade choke tubes for less than $2500.

This shotgun came with three trigger shoes of which I am not certain the purpose. One of them appears to be specifically for a right handed shooter, another is checkered(installed), the third really narrow and very similar to the trigger on my other shotguns. Might have answered my own question there.

Any suggestions or thoughts on how to get the most enjoyment out of my new bangstick?

Andy

I shoot Beretta and Benelli 28s. My only suggestion is to yake it dove hunting. The 28ga and doves are a perfect match.

Never have understood the attraction of the 28 gauge. The 20 gauge is much less expensive to shoot/reload and has all of the advantages of the 28 gauge. Whatever trips your trigger....

I love my little 28s.
In order to truly love them, you need a reloader to feed them, unless you are rich.

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Originally posted by Shootshellz:
Never have understood the attraction of the 28 gauge. The 20 gauge is much less expensive to shoot/reload and has all of the advantages of the 28 gauge. Whatever trips your trigger....

I also love the 28ga. I mainly shoot skeet with it.
It is the perfect combination of no recoil and plenty of lead to get the job done.
I shot in two different leagues this summer and shot the 28 ga in both even though you could shoot any gauge. I was first in one and second in another.

The 28 ga is a fair amount less to reload than a 20ga. Unless you only load 3/4 oz. in the 20.

FYI I use the angled trigger shoe. I like that one the best.

Love my 28ga's I shoot an 870 most and an 1100 sometimes also have a Red Label that is great as well.

28's have been my exclusive guns for almost ten years including waterfowl even the greater canadas Never felt undergunned with my handloads.

I've only been shooting/carrying my Parker 28 for 25 years...when built on the gauge appropriate frame, they are a joy, and very effective in the field.

If the cost of ammo ($9-12 a box at my local Walmart)...is a real concern, sell your shotgun.

If someone gave me a 10 gauge...I'd give it to someone....probably a young guy who could/would carry it all day...been there, done that.

It is all for fun..shoot what you like.

Get a case of skeet loads with #9 shot and go to the skeet range.

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Originally posted by df06:
I shoot Beretta and Benelli 28s. My only suggestion is to yake it dove hunting. The 28ga and doves are a perfect match.

+1

After shooting virtually nothing but a 28 gauge for a number of years, I did try a new-to-me 20 O/U last year on doves. The "big bruiser" (an otherwise dainty 25 year-old Beretta O/U) was okay and I shot fine with it, but the shells looked like howitzer shells to me and I felt like I was shooting twice as much lead at the little buggers as necessary. I know that all of that is perception, but shooting a 28 is addictive and I don't think I'll ever go back.

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Originally posted by NV Guide:
Love my 28ga's I shoot an 870 most and an 1100 sometimes also have a Red Label that is great as well.

28's have been my exclusive guns for almost ten years including waterfowl even the greater canadas Never felt undergunned with my handloads.

Dennis, I need to look up some old PMs. Don't you have some loading data for 7/8oz #6 Hevi-Shot for 28ga along with 1/2oz #9 for 410? We spoke about that a few years ago......

Andy

I love my stable of 28's. I haven't regularly shot my many 12's, 16's and 20's for years. Yes, the 28 gauge is very addictive! But then, I've also moved to my small 00, 1 and 2 weight fly rods for most of my fly fishing as well!

I have a nifty little Ruger o/u 28 Ga. with an english straight stock. I have brought to bag 17 of 19 roosters shot at with it. I have also used it on chukar and valley quail. My 20s and 12s don't kill any better on those species. I use the Winchester 1 oz load of 6 or 7 1/2 shot depending on which species I am hunting. They can be a little hard to find so I buy them by the case when I find them.

465H&H

Andy, I've got a sweet little 28 ga skb o/u... its choked f/m... and does a great job on clays... 28" bbls... mechanical triggers... and I've also got a richland arms 1o ga o/u .. it's heritage is Italian.. came with a pedigree that looks like a car title... a richland sXs, and the jana 10 ga sXs... I want to send the o/u to briley and have them port the barrels and open the chokes up...

That is a stout 28 ga. load!
I find them to be great quail guns if you plan on walking all day as mine are sub 6 lb guns.That being said sometimes that is so light, it affects my swing. As mentioned, if they are frame correct in a double or O/U they are nice little bird guns.
In a fine bird gun, the fit is so inportant. LOP, DAC, DAH. It is mentioned a lot in the double rifle forum but to a bird hunter it can be everthing. I own a little parker reproduction 28 ga that I was so excited about years ago bit the LOP was a little short for me and the drop at Heel was too short. I tried having the stock bent but could not achieve the movement I was looking for so these days my wife shoots it as she is very petite and it fits her well. It weighs 5 lbs / 10 oz.

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Originally posted by 465H&H:
I have a nifty little Ruger o/u 28 Ga. with an english straight stock. I have brought to bag 17 of 19 roosters shot at with it. I have also used it on chukar and valley quail. My 20s and 12s don't kill any better on those species. I use the Winchester 1 oz load of 6 or 7 1/2 shot depending on which species I am hunting. They can be a little hard to find so I buy them by the case when I find them.

465H&H

The 28 gauge disease must be carried by mosquitos (of which Canada has at least its share). I got bitten and infected by that bug in the late 1960's. Started with a used 11-48 Remington, choked medium. Ended up with my nice little O/U double M/F. One which I regrettably sold in the mid-1970s was my favourite...a bespoken Webley and Scott M728 SxS. (In those salad days I not only assumed I'd live forever, but I guess I thought all the nice guns would be made that long too.

I agree with you on both preferred gauges, BTW. Though I have a couple of O/U 12s left, my favorite guns are an LC Smith SxS in 16 ga. for Geese, and my 28 for everything else.

I still use Winchester 1 oz loads in the 28 for jump-shooting duck. When that load was discontinued (in 1972 if I recall correctly) I bought beaucoup cases of them and still have a few boxes left. I also set up my Ponsness-Warren to load 1 oz 28s.

I still have my "canons" too, but haven't used even one them in the field for at least 25 years.

I have a full stable of the little shotties, and have used nothing else now for at least the last five years. I actually sold off a few last year, and only have nine shotguns in 28ga left LOL!
They are cheap to reload, a pleasure to pack in the field, and pound for pound, as good as any upland gun in the field for patterning and results. I prefer a load of copper plated 7 1/2's in all my reloads, which does add to the cost, but can still reload a box for under $5.
I reside in an area that is notorious for pheasants, and shooting grounds. I even got into incubating and releasing my own birds for shoots, and the 28's perform admirably on all upland birds. I really enjoy hunting chukars in the river badlands, and when you're hunting rough terrain, those 5# sxs shotties are a pleasure to pack in the coulees.

I hunt almost everything with a 5 lb Ugartechea SxS 28 ga with 27 in. barrels.

I just picked up a Hatfield 28ga O/U. They made a special run of 100 of them some time ago. Waiting for the snow to pack down a bit to get it out for Pheasants.

Match the sight picture and balance of your 28 gauge to your OTHER shotgun:



Too many shotguns with different "feels" and you'll get easy misses with one, the other or both.

Yup, it's all about fit and familiarization, for sure.

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Originally posted by NV Guide:
Love my 28ga's I shoot an 870 most and an 1100 sometimes also have a Red Label that is great as well.

28's have been my exclusive guns for almost ten years including waterfowl even the greater canadas Never felt undergunned with my handloads.

Are you using steel shot for waterfowl?

Continuing to clean up, I found a 28 Ruger O/U English stock that I had completely forgotten that I had......nice surprise which will probably be good for my son or daughter.