What make a shotgun a "Best Gun"- Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, n'ces pas? I prefer a side-by-side in sidelock configuration, and if I Warren Buffett's portfolio at my beck and call, I'd prefer a Boss or a Purdey island lock with ejectors and Whitworth barrels. Does the ratio of dead birds in hand to shells expended on a high volume shoot factor into this choice? Say, doves in SA or driven pheasant in Hungary or grouse in Scotland? Any shotgun that can hold up to that degree of high volume shooting season after season has to be amongst the Best, if not Better, right?

"The field is the touchstone of the man"..