I have a vault full of great 12 gauge game guns but these days find myself grabbing a sixteen when heading out the door on a real quail hunt. My bar none favorite is a lowly 16 DS Lefever with 26" barrels and a small frame. Not much to look at but carries great and is the most instinctive shooting gun I own. Load for real birds is always 1 oz of #7 at about 1175 fps. For clays I drop down to 7/8 oz of #8.

In my country the twenty probably outnumbers all the others put together and are sort of boring.

John McCain is my war hero.