"Beware of the One Gun Man" or "Share the Love"?

dukxdog

dukxdog

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Do you guys have one main shotgun you use daily or do you switch guns you like every few days?

What is your main Shotgun?

What guns do you swap around?

Do you change gauges regularly?
 
dukxdog said:
Do you guys have one main shotgun you use daily or do you switch guns you like every few days?
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You shoot a shotgun daily?

dukxdog said:
What is your main Shotgun?
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52 year old Mod 1100 3" for waterfowl, 32 year old now 3" Browning Citori Upland Superlite for upland and some waterfowl

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What guns do you swap around?
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Just those two for those uses. Never needed more.

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Do you change gauges regularly?
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I hate to cripple birds so shoot what I think will kill birds quickly. I've owned sub gauge guns but got rid of them for that reason.
 
Hunted a long time with one gun. Added as I could afford it.

Today it would seem to be easier to have one gun. When I started out 2 and 3/4 twelve gauge, full choke was all I knew about.
 
I have two main guns a Browning A5 12 gauge and a Ithaca SXS 12 gauge. One day in KS pheasant hunting I shot three pheasants with three different guns just because. It was a blast!!!
 
Shoot turkeys with a cheap and now loose-in-the-hinge Stoeger o/u 12. Shoot everything else with a Browning 625 Citori 12.
 
Most upland sxs Dickinson D/T 20 gauge if I switch it's to a sxs ruger gold label

Waterfowl 20 ga Benelli M-2 or the same in a 12 ga
 
I love changing up guns just to say I shot a bird with each of my guns. I went a little overboard opening weekend of the KS season this year. Shot a limit opening day with a 20 gauge A-5 Light 20. Second day I shot one with my Red Label 12, Red Label 20, and missed a bunch with my stoeger pump. Just want to make sure none of my guns feel left out. I didn't carry that stoeger very long because it's just so heavy to carry all day. Mainly why I use a 20 gauge 95% of the time, except for goose hunting.
 
It's always been one gun for me. My Remington Model 1100, 12 Ga., 2-3/4" chamber, 28" barrel, modified choke, purchased in 1964 at a high price of $142.00.

For upland birds from quail to ringnecks and turkey, water foul from Teal to Canadian Geese, and lots of rabbits, with trap and skeet in between. That one shotgun is all I ever needed.

Many years and thousands of rounds later, my 1100 takes a licking and keeps on kicking. :)
 
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It's always been one gun for me. My Remington Model 1100, 12 Ga., 2-3/4" chamber, 28" barrel, modified choke, purchased in 1964 at a high price of $142.00.
Many years and thousands of rounds later, my 1100 takes a licking and keeps on kicking. :)
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I bought mine either the same year or one year earlier. My experience mimics yours. It's a 3" Magnum but I bought an extra 2 3/4" mod. barrel to shoot low base reliably. It now has a synthetic stock and I spray paint the gun every couple of years with a combination of flat red primer to mimic Smartweed in the winter and green to cover all of those plants. It's jammed maybe 5 times in 52 years and always, ALWAYS, my fault for poor maintenance. Who needs more guns when the hammer you've got still drives the nails in up to the head?:10sign::cheers:
 
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For everything except geese I use a 20 ga Citori, 3' chamber and 26' barrels that I've had for 20+ years. For geese I use a 12 ga. Citori While Lightning with 28" barrels.
 
I've got several different benelli shotguns, couple Remington's. But I always leave the house with the SBEll, never know what I'm going to get into, I like the option of very light 2 3/4 all the way up to 3.5" in the one gun, also don't mind the sling on the long walks!
 
My go to carrying gun is a 686 20 guage, but when I added a 686 28 guage to the mix this fall, it has found itself in my hands more than the 20 since I got it.

I also have a couple Browning A5 20 mags that get brought out once in a while for nostalgic reasons.

The only 12 guage that ever sees the field anymore is a Browning 2 shot auto called a "Twelvette" that was given to me by my 5th grade teacher in elementary school. Its fun to shoot but certainly different with the spring action. The safety mechanism has given many a rooster a pardon while Im fumbling around trying to use it. ;)
 
I own seven Ithaca Model 37s -- some that I inherited and some that I purchased or traded for. The oldest was made in 1942 and the newest just a few years ago. I have two 12-gauges, two 16s and three 20s. All of them see time in the field.

My favorite at the moment is a newer 20. It comes up really fast and I've been shooting it well.

I occasionally mix in a Franchi Renaissance O/U if I'm out with the pointing dogs and expect to do a lot of walking and very little shooting. That gun is real easy to carry broken open over my shoulder and I don't concern myself with loading it unless one of the dogs goes on point.
 
My goto gun is a Beretta SV10 Perennia III 12 and occasionally I'll use my Browning Maxus field 12 and the Browning superlight Feather 16 gauge.
 
Browning B-25, 870 wingmaster in 12 and 20, Fias Kassner o/u 20 gauge. O/u in woods for grouse and woodcock. Will use doubles if pheasant are holding for points.
 
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