Who are the shootingest SxS folks???

[Cold Spring]

For me it's Fox first and Syracuse Lefever second. Third (in order) are Parker Hammerless, Model 21, Ithaca NID, Remington and LC Smith. Regarding "shootingest" ..... mine is an Ansley era CE Fox with >18k rounds through her since coming to me and she's still tight as a drum, ejectors in time and with only one broken trigger sear spring leaf over all that firing. Her barrels have settled down only .001" as measured at the back end of their flats and with .006-7" to go before bottomed out on the frame bar = a little recognized but excellent Fox design feature to counter springing of the frame over long and heavy use. She also toured with a Fox factory tournament shooter starting in 1914 and who knows how many rounds he fired. A H Fox guns were well engineered with a minimum of working parts to include the ejectors, and they endure with a modicum of care. First choice for this guy who likes to shoot often.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Parker and Lefever guns for me. I have a Browning BSS with a custom stock and ISIS system for waterfowl and crows, and an Ithaca 37 12g which I occasionally use for nostalgia reasons as it was my first shotgun. I have one Darne and a 16g Stevens that was my Pappy's favorite meat gun.

[Bill Murphy]

I own them all and I shoot them all. As I have explained before, about 95% of my guns are shooters in field used condition. The rest are collector guns that I also shoot.

[Double Lab]

My focus has been since my first Parker the 20ga. I have way too many and can't give them all enough court time. Still I shot them at targets and birds for many years. I am a reformed Parker snob now that my eyes have been opened.

That is until I got my first Fox 20. What a game changer. Rita and Fentress are their names.
Then a Lefever 20 came along. Now the slope is getting slippery.
Had to have a British gun so along came a Wm. Ford 20, 30" hammer.
Recently acquired Ithaca NID 20 with 30" tubes was added to the fold. How could I have overlooked Ithaca for so long?

Mod12 20 with a solid rib. Just reeks of nostalgia.

I can trace this smallbore addiction back to my first gun my father gave me. A Stevens 311 which I still have. I hunted everything with that gun and never felt undergunned.

I'll leave the 12 and 28 gauges for another discussion.

Yes, it is nice to have choices Brett.