You guys are hard core. I'm headed to Maine in three weeks for ten days of hunting and plan on bringing a 20 gauge Fox and a 16 gauge Merkel O/U with 2 triggers. If the weather is right the Fox will get everyday duty. Merkel is my rainy day gun.

Wow, Rich! Nine grouse guns??? So much for dialin' it in! In New England they'd call that : "A trunk load of excuses!!" :banghead: Good hunting!

Back in the day when I was eaten up with the bird hunting thing I had a pair of guns for everything . Nope they weren't Parker's or SxS's they were a pair of Browning Citori's in 16 gauge . Here in VA grouse coverts are in the mountains and a Browning Citori Upland Special 16 gauge with 24" barrels C/IC or M screwed in worked for me . If I were dove shooting or preserve hunting a Browning Citori Lightning with 28" barrels and chokes of IC/M or F worked well for me . I am sure if I were inclined these two would cover any upland stuff I wanted to do now . And quite possibly that Lightning could cover the goose stuff I've been doing . Back then I had Parker's Fox's and Smith's as well as guns from the Continent and the U.K. And liked them but when I was seriouse I used the Brownings .

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Simple----The gun you feel most comfortable with !! I prefer my 28 PHE with 24' barrels. Quick and lite !!

WOW a 24" PHE in 28 ga.:whistle: What a gun!




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The Hell you say:shock: I'm neither a neophyte nor unsuspecting I know there is NO perfect Grouse gun BUT there are MANY Grouse guns. I have added a 10th, a nice GHE 20 with 26 inch Damascus barrels......because it just might be.....well perfect:)

in the picture of the pistol what is the hammer for in the picture..i could not make out the small wording...charlie

I think this pistol featured an early "transfer bar" hammer safety, meaning you could strike the hammer with a "hammer" and the pistol wouldn't fire unless the trigger was pulled all the way to rear. I couldn't make out the wording either, but that's what I gathered from it.

Yes, "Hammer the Hammer" was tooting the Iver Johnson safety horn...

I always carry a hand gun with me Grouse hunting but it's NOT for the Grouse and it's a lot bigger than a 22:whistle: