whats your favorite hunting gun
 

this was a hard question for me to answer..as i studied i finally decided the old 8 ga parker was my favorite..i ve used it on several squirl hunts its killed a few crows a coupla deer with buckshot andits still be carried to the woods to hopefully get a deer of somesort with the pumpkin ball load..the old 8 ga is sawed off to 26 1/4 inch barrel that are stub twist shes a lifter action a 0 grade ...shes the 25 parker made in 8 ga department... charlie....

The 20 gauge Trojan Julia gave me.

Parker Repro 16 gauge. 28" - Q1/Q2. Great for clays as well. Put Tru-Oil on the case colors and it really has helped preserve them from the heavy use.
Bob Jurewicz

Right now it's this grade 2, 10 gauge because it's the one I used on spring turkeys. The 20 gauge is getting ready to be my favorite as dove season approaches

Parker repro 20 with 26 inch barrels choked .004 and .008. Double triggers of course. It has accounted for quite a few grouse,woodcock, some doves, and a bunch of clay targets. Oh, excuse me, I meant to say pa'tridge.

My great grandfather's DHE. It is in the small photo on the left. It is a true Iowa gun that has hunted on three continents.

In my part of the world when you're talking about a hunting gun you're talking about a grouse/woodcock gun. My favorite carry gun for Ruffed Grouse is a 28-ga. Parker Reproduction DHE 26" IC/M, DT, SG, SPL. When Woodcock are targeted it usually has a set of 28-.410 Chambermates aboard.

Almost every Parker I own is a pleasure to carry in the woods, and I have carried most of them. At the end of the day, when I kick off my boots and build a fire, I don't really care which one it is. I'm neither more or less lucky, and if I come home with an empty pouch, I'd still rather walk all day with one of Charlie's guns than anything else.

I must echo Edgar's sentiments. Carrying a different Parker (or Fox) in the uplands or in the marsh just adds more enjoyment in my time afield. Variety is the spice of life.

sice dove season is almost upon us i will use the 3 frame 12 in the morning while i got the strengh to lift it and a d grade parker with single trigger that eveningalso in 12 ga.. charlie

I am thinking of taking my Browning Superposed out for the first day of dove season:eek:

Just to try something different for a change. It was owned by another PGCA member before me :rolleyes:

Last year I took grouse, woodcock, or pheasant with all 4 of my Parkers, all 6 Foxes, and my 2 Lefevers. My favorite guns to hunt with are my GH O frame 16 and my newest, a beat up little VHE 20--they may be the only 2 guns I take to the UP this fall.

Can't call any one gun my favorite! Any gun I happen to have with me when I get out into the woods and fields is my favorite for that day. I like my Parkers, Foxes, RBL's, Brownings, etc. I can however say that my favorite gauge is the 20.

My favorite of all of them is hands down Gunner's Gun. I could part with them all except this one.

Rich, I do see why this is your favorite gun, I know when afield with it memories abound of hunts with your best buddy, Matties gun is at the engravers probably be six months before I get it , Then it will be my all time favorite Parker! Gary

My favorite could be any Parker that I have carried behind my dogs. However, after a difficult second barrel kill on a bobwhite a few years ago, my favorite now is my little 28 gauge bored cylinder and full. The little cockbird had reached the forty yard mark and has turned around a honeysuckle thicket and was all but out of sight when I fired. My companion gave up the bird as lost, but I sent Eva into the area of the shot and she came out with a dead bird. The little VH has earned a place in the back of the truck.

I only have one Parker (for now, anyway)
 

So it has to be my favorite- My father-in-law willed it to me- a VHE 12 with 30" M&F barrels made in aprox 1929, by the serial number look-up the PGCA makes available. I passed on the Parker GHE .410 ;made in 1937 in Ilion, again as verified by the serial number look-up herein and once I priced out both 2.5" and 3" .410 bore shotshells-And I am still "on the fence" about the 1926 era AH Fox 12 AE- again, 30" M&F like the Parker VHE- mainly due to the buttstock issues-

I also shoot a Browning 20 Superposed for quail and dove, and a Browning 12 Auto-Five, mainly for water=fowling with steel shot. The Parker is my favorite shotgun for pheasants, hands down.

Carried out my 10ga 32 in lifter this morning for the first time hunting with it. Had my limit of dove in an hour and a few minutes. Lots of fun. My two friends had there's a little sooner with their auto loaders but I think I had more fun. Took me a while to remember to cock the hammers and move to the rear trigger for the second shot. I had to laugh at myself. Carvel

them old tens are a lot of fun glad you chose one to shoot..what loads did you use on the doves...charlie

I had a few RST ounce and one eighth 1140 fps 7&1/2's factory loads and the rest were some reloads federal hulls, 30gr of unique 1&1/8 oz of #8 loaded with nitro card over the powder 2 , 1/2in fiber spacers and a rolled crimp. All seemed to work well. Carvel

I actually have three favorite hunting guns. For upland birds in the field it would be a 12 ga. parker DH choked open IC / Mod. Moving into the thicker stuff for grouse and woodcock it would be a cut barrel fox sterlingworth choked Cyl/Cyl. For squirrels, if I can't get them with the first shot they are free to go, I use a single barrel Forehand and Wadsworth hammer gun choked Full.

I have been Parker-less for quite some time. My DeHaan .410 and Harry Greener's Emperor share equal time chasing Ruffed Grouse.