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Welcome to the site, Grousen!

My favorite - a 16 ga French guild gun with Jean Breuil barrels 70 cm long and under 6 lb.



My other favorite - a 20 ga Trojan, 26 inch barrels, choked .007 both sides.

gloftness, like your little female French Britany. Looks a lot like mine only younger. Unfortunately my seldom gets to has never had opportunity on Ruffs or Woodcock, just a steady diet of desert quail and cholla thorns. At 13 she still loves to go and has learned to move slower so I can keep up I think. Or maybe both of us are moving slower for the same reason. VHE Parker 20ga with 28" barrels is my go to gun for all upland game and has been for about 30 years.

Jerry,
Gabby is just 2 years old. My first dog- and I couldn't be more pleased. Still a lot to learn on grouse, but she's done very well on pheasants. I'm addicted to older Beretta sxs's but this one is my favorite grouse gun.

Greg

Doublefan,
Where are the pics?
My favorite is a Fox CE blown up in the Northwoods.

I've obviously struck a chord here. Glad to see so many grouse hunters still out there. After considering my options and not finding exactly the right 12 (well, I came close with an Army & Navy marked Webley & Scott that tips the scales at 6lbs5 w/28 tubes and a 14 3/4 LOP) I finally settled on a British 16 with fairly neutral cast that weighs 5lbs13. I looked at lots of guns, from 2" 12s to a number of 16s, but the money/fit combination just wasn't there.

nca 225: If I were to shoot an American gun it would likely be close to the Fox you described. But, alas!...most are too short for me.

Lloyd, which 16ga British gun did you settle on?

I ended up with the No.1 gun of a pair of W. Richards guns built in 1906. 28 tubes and 14 7/8 LOP. I've shot it on some game farm birds and it needs to be bent just a smidgen, but otherwise it fits like a dream. Can't wait until next September.

I haven't done it much but when I have to do that much walking in heavy VT growth I've used my Chas. Hellis 2" 12b, 5-1/2lbs. Easy to carry one handed.




I also have a 16ga Kettner (or Kerner, I can't ever remember) with 29" barrels and 2-1/2" chambers that weighs about the same, I'd like to give that a try someday.

And if it were also big game season in the Adirondacks my Nimrod 16x16 over 8x57R.

The whole 2" 12 concept facinates me. I've seen and handled a good number of them but I've never had the chance to use one. I hear that they are spectacular in the grouse woods. Is that so? Do they work as well or better than a 16?

Pete