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For the quantity of game shot it has to be my ancient Ithaca Flues in 16 bore from 1913. It just fits. As far as favorites for upland birds go it would have to be this drilling, 2 1/2 in brass cases and black powder.

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Joined: 22 Jan 2015 Posts: 345

I lived under the preverbial rock for too many years when it comes to this grand world of shot gunning. Always a rifleman at heart before, now that I've finally arrived 45 yrs late, I'm still gaining a sense of what works best for me with the scattergun. It's become a real honest adventure, and has returned me to my earliest years of when I greatly anticipated any and all hunts while gaining my legs in the field. As I learned what dimensions I needed for a right fit, ie DAH, cast, etc., I started to zero in on what I ought to look for in the guns I became interested in. I was drawn right away to doubles, and started down that road with a nice O/U which is on the heavy side, but makes a fine clays/dove gun. Not satisfied with that, I yearned for something else and took the plunge with two "new to me" types in one. I picked up a light SxS in 16ga. Now I'm most enthusiastic with what I've discovered (on my own), what you all here have already known, and that's the marvel the 16ga is. With that said, my "Best shotgun" in terms of pleasure to shoot on all fronts is my late 40's vintage BRNO side lock SXS, 16ga. English style stock, 27.5" bbls, choked SK/IC, weighs 6Lbs, and seems to fly to my shoulder and be pointed to wherever I'm looking without thought or pause. If it were more robust and I felt comfortable shooting heavy loads in it without risk to the gun, I doubt I'd ever pick up another shotgun again.

Here it is, top gun. Bottom one is a 12ga which will be sent off for choke tubes some day.

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My current favorite turkey getter. 12ga Stevens, pre-stockmarket crash vintage, painted, light weight, paid $50 for it in 1978, reaches out there and touches'em:
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I really like the 16ga Citori recently picked up for my wife. That platform has the potential to take over as my Best Gun, if I had one fitted to me. Hmmm

Joined: 28 Sep 2014 Posts: 241 Location: Kingsland, Texas

For me it is my Remington M-11 which my Dad gave me 41 years ago for my 16th B-day. The gun had about 10% bluing from being heavily hunted with and had a cutts com. choke. I never knew what choke was on there but I could not hit anything with it until I cut the entire thing off. Few years later Dad sent it off to have it refurbished. My absolute go to shotgun 16 of coarse .
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Like fourtimes4 above, this ol' 16 ga. Remington 11 is my "best" in terms of bringing home the game. It has nothing to do with the semi-auto firepower, and I never put in more than 3 shells, and two is always enough. OK, last winter on the last day of rabbit hunting I was up on a hill and I could clearly see a long "shooting gallery" developing, and I snicked in the full 5! My M11 is a 1933 gun, and with the help of skeetx I have found that it was built on a 20 gauge frame. The action is still long, but it's thinner, and the stock is really trim. It's a game harvesting machine and possible the best pointer I've ever had. It hasn't left the safe this year, but it's there, and anytime I even think I might be slumping with this or that shotgun it can be summoned!

i'm in a bit of flux with my 16 gauge doubles. No clear winner has emerged between my two 16 ga. SxS's. The one I had pegged as more of a hunter has turned out to be a great clay buster, and the one that seems more of a clay target gun with a beavertail forend and pistol grip is quicker to get-on with in the field. I need to really bear down and get some clarity with those two. My little Belgian OU 16 is great. I just haven't used it a lot.

Joined: 07 Aug 2013 Posts: 163 Location: Utah

The gun that I seem to shoot best is my Holland & Holland Shot and Regulated, H&H badged, Weblley & Scott 700 12 Gauge. It was manufactured in 1967 and sent to Holland & Holland in the white according to them.

It has 28 inch barrels choked imp. mod & mod. The gun handles like dream and weighs in at 6 lbs. 8 oz.

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Member Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 1863 Location: Wisconsin

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Reno, I saw you and that rabbit coming through the swamp, and based on the set up I just knew I was in for some long shooting at that wounded bunny! That was quite a day!

Member Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 1863 Location: Wisconsin

Joined: 30 Jun 2015 Posts: 43 Location: Mississippi

I'd like to say that it's my Citori, Savage, or even my SKB 28. But without a doubt, in terms of deadliness, more creatures have perished at the receiving end of my old Revelation 16 single than by any other shotgun I own. Now, which one do I wingshoot the best with, not sure. I sure have downed a lot of birds with my Browning Gold, but that may be simply because I've had it far longer than any of my doubles.