Favorite gun for "bird hunting" here in the South (read bobwhite quail) is a 20 gauge that weighs 6 lbs and a few ounces. I do prefer 28" or 30" barrels. I own a few bird guns. A nice 1911 DHE 20 w/ 28" barrels that is factory choked C/M. A sweet 1905 BHE 20 w/ 30" barrels factory choked C/M. And I have a 1935 VHE 20 Skeet gun w/26" barrels. All three are straight stocked guns. Having said all of that I wouldn't hesitate to take either of my two M/F twenties if worse came to worse. I grew up hunting a lot of modified choked Brownings and a modified choked Winchester. Shot a lot of quail with that choke, as well as dove and rabbits too.
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