Your favourite shotgun...... ?

[willie_gunn]

My 16b Beretta is my "go to" shotgun, and it does the job wonderfully, but the gun I miss the most is the Browning 325 G1 that I started with:

 

[Border]

My only shotgun.
Browning B425 light 12/70 with Teague chokes. Bought with inheritence money from my mum.
Not used much anymore but gets a few outings each autumn roe hunting with dogs or following up foxes.
Shotgun unloaded in picture.

 

[saddler]

Ah! I had a 16, on s1 after 1988, for "flocking birds". But regrettably they never had the speedload feature that the Auto-5 acquired in the early 1950s. So I let it go.

I've converted two older guns to speedload.....

 

[Hind.on.stalker]

My Perazzi MX12 sco's

 

[deerstalker.308]

Seeing some of the lovely old guns on this thread is making me look forward to a total ban on lead ammunition so that they come down in price sufficiently for me to own one.
I’m a very bad person.

There are various non lead options available now for most, which hopefully will allow them to hold onto their well deserved values going forward.

 

[Dunwaters]

There are various non lead options available now for most, which hopefully will allow them to hold onto their well deserved values going forward.

Agreed, the big enemy of the older side by side gun values is that they are now very much a niche item.
They’re designed purely for bird shooting, the layout, double triggers light weight, short cartridges and auto safeties aren’t familiar to those shooters that just want one “ does it all” shotgun.

 

[Ronin]

My Rem 870

Perfect shotgun for every occasion - even been on a game shoot

 

[Smellydog]

My Rem 870

Perfect shotgun for every occasion - even been on a game shoot

Me too

 

[Smellydog]

Agreed, the big enemy of the older side by side gun values is that they are now very much a niche item.
They’re designed purely for bird shooting, the layout, double triggers light weight, short cartridges and auto safeties aren’t familiar to those shooters that just want one “ does it all” shotgun.

I've known several to shoot clays all the time with SXS guns. Refused to use topsy turvy guns. I don't think they are niche at all. Very common indeed. Pumps are more niche I would say and the smaller gauges but not a sxs.

 

[Smellydog]

Picked up a nice SKB last winter.

 

[lochty]

Seeing some of the lovely old guns on this thread is making me look forward to a total ban on lead ammunition so that they come down in price sufficiently for me to own one.
I’m a very bad person.

It's for sale.....at a very reasonable price.

 

[Howzat]

Browning B25 lightweight game 26in barrels narrow solid rib straight hand stock 3/4 and IMP had it over 50 years, bought it from Frank Richards Silver st Taunton for £125 one year old, still use it every season for game.

 

[scrumbag]

Tough one. Do like my Browning 525s but also have a soft spot for the Browning BPS. (But then there's the Winchester Model 12 Heavy Duck)

Scrummy...

 

[Snap-Cap]

Browning 525 sporter 1 for me had it 5 years now never missed a beat 1000s of cartridges through it just clean it give it a whipe down back in the cabinet. Mainly used in summer carrying out pigeon shooting but does come out in the game season on the duck & pheasants got my first teal with it last Saturday.

 

[Dunwaters]

I've known several to shoot clays all the time with SXS guns. Refused to use topsy turvy guns. I don't think they are niche at all. Very common indeed. Pumps are more niche I would say and the smaller gauges but not a sxs.

Then we’re not seeing the same thing, better than 80% of the guns I see on driven shoots nowadays are O/U and a bigger percentage of the guns on clay grounds are O/U too.

 

[Smellydog]

Then we’re not seeing the same thing, better than 80% of the guns I see on driven shoots nowadays are O/U and a bigger percentage of the guns on clay grounds are O/U too.

That's because they are all ill with the topsy turvy virus

 

[McKenzie]

Most of the guns on our shoot (80%) use sbs but we do walk a bit. I also shoot sbs for clays quite often.

 

[deerstalker.308]

I've known several to shoot clays all the time with SXS guns. Refused to use topsy turvy guns. I don't think they are niche at all. Very common indeed. Pumps are more niche I would say and the smaller gauges but not a sxs.

It is all I own, so I shoot clays with them too. Never got on with other configurations of guns particularly well.

 

[Bigstep]

I think my favourite shotgun would be the browning b25, they just feel right for me. I have a b2g 30" sporter and a b5.3 30" special sporter.

 

[paul o']

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