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I'm sure this topic has been beat to death but I am fairly new to this site and wanted to see the varying opinions. Let's keep this to guns you own, your approximate locale, or the game/targets you pursue most. I don't care if it's an H&H best gun or the ol' Riverside dad gave to you 50 years ago. Let's use the perverbial "one go to gun." This isn't intended to be a "measuring" match.

So I'll start. I have English setters, live in Iowa, and hunt mostly pheasents. Once in a blue moon I'll see a hun or quail. I do like to try and take one hunting trip a year for birds, and hunt a little waterfowl too.

My personal favorite is my Parker Trojan in 12 guage. Not fancy or flashy, but fits me very well at 14 1/4 LOP and 1 5/8 DAC and 2 3/4 DAH. This gun has been used a lot but still locks up tight and has some charecter. 28" bbls that have been back bored to remove pits, cones lengthened and right choke opened to mod. Blue is about 85%, traces of case color, and the wood is excellent. It weighs about 7 1/2 pounds so it's a little heavy but balances so well that you don't notice as much. This is by far not my most expensive double, nor is it the nicest, but it's my favorite, and finds its way into the truck on nearly every hunting trip. I have killed buku pheasents with it, huns, quail, ducks, geese, woodcock, grouse, and chukars. When the cover gets tight I use spreaders. There doesn't seem to be anything this gun won't handle. While have many others, this is the ONE.

I will be interested to see what everyone else has....

I have a Lefever G grade with a high stock and straight grip. I "butchered" it to suit me! Chokes are now .014" and .024", LOP is 14-1/8" with a Pachmayr Decelerator pad. I shoot it very well and love it. Another favorite was a Bernardelli Italia hammer gun, but I sold it, darn it. A Browning Gran Lightning 28 ga. is another current favorite of mine. Had a very nice Parker but it went away in a trade for my newest treasure, the AYA 2 barrel set.

A T.& H. King Boxlock with Extractors. It is proofed originally for 2 3/4 inch and for 1 1/4 ozs of shot. It was somebodys waterfowl gun and it weighs 8 lbs. I to "butchered" the barrels( IC and Mod) and even restocked it to fit me better. It had way to much drop.

Regards, GOrdon

I have my one-to-go, a 12 bore William Evans best quality single trigger BLE. I just had the barrels blacked and the top rib straightened by Hugh Lomas of Wisconsin, he did a beautiful job, too.
Mike

Little 20 gauge Purdey SLE, made in 1929, 28" barrels, sideclips, hidden 3rd bite, factory 2-3/4" chambers, 5 lbs 13oz, leather covered pad, 1-7/16 x 2-3/8 x 14-1/2, POW, choked IC in both barrels. Original stock finish and substantial orginal case. Barrels redone, excellent job.

It has enough honest wear that I don't mind taking it out hunting in good weather on reasonable terrain. It is my Sunday go to meeting gun.

Best,

Mike

Mine is exactly the same as Amarillo's.

Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't have a 20 ga. Purdey, but like Amarillo's . I will never have one unless he wills it to me.

Most of the time I grab my Uggie Falcon 12, bored .008/.017. If the temp drops too much, I grab the single trigger Beretta 626 12, bored .005/.019.
Then when nostalgia sets in I grab the 1902 Elsie 12; put a spreader in the right barrel.

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In the vault is a c.1915 HJ Hussey Imperial Ejector, a 12-g SLE with 2.5'' chambers and 28-inch barrels, along with the nicest diamond grip you've ever felt. Six pounds and eight ounces.

A 28ga Pieper hammer gun. Nicely engraved and a lot of fun on a grouse hunt is my all time favorite. I left it home last fall and that was a mistake.

Pete

VH 12 , 28 inch tubes custom stocked for me
bill