whats your favorite "ole shotgun whether your huntin rabbit,birds or just beatin around? mine would have to be a 12ga win mod. 37 single barrel when loaded with rem or fed heavy game loads (3 3/4 dram/1 5/8 oz, it is mean on anything including shoulders. but will hold a pattern @ 40yds that is devistating on game. have had the occasional rabbit that i did not let run far enough before touching one off. well you get the picture. so whats your favorite shotgun.     have a nive day, jim

That would be a Remington Wingmaster 12 ga. with a plain barrel with modified choke. Had a Raybar bead put in about 20 years ago to replace the stock one. Usually used #5 and 6 shot for some great squirrel and general small game medicine. Remember at one time I used the Remington Nitro Mags in 2 3/4" shells with number 5 shot. Great for longer range through the hardwood forest. This was my first shotgun bought back in 1977 for 139.99 at Modell's Sporting Goods. (Unbelievable)

Sad to say it's been parked a while in the gun cabinet since I started playing with handguns. There is a nice trap range at the club I just joined and maybe I'll get back into shooting this shotgun again.

Thanks Bill, for causing me to think about the great memories I have with my brother and father huntin' for small game in the late seventies. One heckuvalotta fun was had at that time!

Regards


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I'll have to say that probably the most used firearm in my battery is a well used, Savage 24C 20ga/.22LR O/U combination gun called the Camper.

It goes pretty much wherever I do other than during big game seasons.   It has filled the pot so many times with what I'll call "incidental game" that I can't begin to remember them all!   Not quite a shotgun by definition, but a shotgun and more!  Not fancy, not high-tech, will never make gunwriter's top 10, but my pick... time and again!

Yep, my pick for the 'ole shotgun as you put it for bummin' around!

God Bless,

Marshall

When I was 8 my Dad gave me an old 16 ga Iver Johnson Champion singleshot.I still have it and use it all the time.......dang that was a long time ago!

It would be a Ithaca SxS 12ga m/f barrels, it was my grand fathers. I use a lite load with 7/8oz of shot, to shoot a little pasture trap.

I've always been a double gun enthusiast with a pump gun paycheck, so it would be my Remington 870 with the 21" Turkey-model barrel. A bit heavy but short n' handy for the dense stuff in which I usually find grouse.
Even better would be a rattail-forend Ithaca 37 in 16 gauge. I really like that shell a lot. But in a perfect world I'd say a 28 gauge SxS, IC/M fixed chokes in 25" barrels, double triggers, straight grip stock and splinter forend. Say 5.5 lbs. or so. Okay, so where's my car payment for the next six years...

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I have a 4 year old H&R Pardner 12ga with a modified choke. This gun was $70 new its feather lite (bad on recoil) but you can carry it all day. It patterns great out to 40yds and it can handle my heavy 2 3/4 reloads. great cheap light tough, cant say enough about these guns.

Godbless.... Braden

I've got an IGA[stoeger] O/U [$300] that points and shoots great in 12ga. *I've used it for birds, turkey, deer on occasion w/ buckshot.[skunked] *the darn thing just FEELS like an appendage while following a rising pheasant!!!!<!--emo&;)--><img src="http://beartoothbullets.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo-->

Like Bill said, "I'm a double gun enthusiast with a pump gun paycheck" also. *However I did run across a cheap but very sweet shooting Stevens 5100 16 gauge sxs many many years ago. *Yes, it has that danged ol' plastic stock on it and the cap has come of the butt so it makes a really strange sound when shot. *It's modified/full and has a ding in the barrel. *I don't know if my eyes are as crooked at it shoots or if it shoots where I point it, either way its accounted for a bunch of birds, rabbits, squirrels and clays. *I can actually hit quail with it (if they let me recover from the heart attack they give me when first flushed). *I bought that shotgun for $45 and wouldn't take 100 times that for it now.

I have to go along with Marshall on the Savage 24 series. Wife has a 22/410 her mother left her. Many years ago I had a 22mag/410 that lived in my truck. It filled a lot of dinner pots while hunting and camping. Used to have the same combo that marshall has, traded it for something I just coundent live without and regretted it ever since.The 22/410 sure makes a nice camp gun and works well on rattlers.

Gun Runner

Would have to be a Winchester Model 12 in 16 gauge I got from my maternal grandfather years ago. It's missing alot of the bluing and has a 28 inch plain barrel with a gold bead and modified fixed choke. This is my truck gun when pheasant season, chukar, grouse, etc is running.

Been thinking of new wood, vent rib, thin wall screw-in chokes, and a reblue for the old friend. Trouble is finding a good craftsman to do it. RKBA!