I'd better chuck in some from the other side of the big pond: Denys Watkins-Pitchford who wrote under the name BB after his favorite shot size for geese. He wrote Children's books and quite a few Countryside and Wildfowl Shooting books. He used a double 12 bore 3" magnum by The Midland Gun Co. A friend now owns the gun together with his shooting diaries. The gun is well provenanced with an account of its purchase in the diaries together with the original receipt pasted in.
Another Shooting and Wildfowling author by the name of James Wentworth Day had a double 8 bore by Joseph Lang which he called 'Roaring Emma'. This gun is now owned by a Wildfowling Club and is loaned out to members. There are many accounts of its use in his book 'The Modern Fowler'. Lagopus.....
