My favorite upland gauge is the one I'm carrying on any given day, but for Pheasants and prairie grouse in the west, the versatile 12-gauge is hard to beat. My go to gun for coming up on fifty seasons has bee "Meat in the Pot" my 1914 vintage A-Grade Ansley H. Fox with 28-inch 3-weight Krupp barrels. Opening weekend limit of Ducks with my Super-Fox and first Pheasant with the A-Grade 1966 --