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[Phil Yearout]

28". Not too long, not too short .

[Tom Flanigan]

It's purely a personal thing. I like long barrels others like the short ones. My grandfather taught me to shoot with my barrel arm extended like I was pointing at something rather than bent like most others shoot. His theory was it gave better control. It is natural when pointing at something to keep your arm straight. My hand is well down the barrel when shooting so short barrels don't feel right to me. Also, I don't like to shoot guns with Beavertails since my natural form is to shoot with my hand beyond the reach of these types of forend's and they get in the way for me.

[C.O.B.]

This is my go to upland bird gun or at least it's the main one. Gunner's Gun

[Craig Larter]

I absolutely love 26" bird guns in 20ga for flushed game either Mearns quail, wild Bob's or south Dakota pheasants. My current favorite is a Fox CE. For ducks my go to is a 9lb super fox or 10ga Parker. Weird me.

[charlie cleveland]

nice....charlie

[todd allen]

Hi Eldon, I would love to shoot the 34" gun. Where do you shoot at?

[Dean Romig]

I shoot 24", 25", 26", 27", and 28" for grouse and woodcock and don't think I'd be comfortable shooting longer barrels for these birds... and it's got nothing to do with being in close cover and being afraid that the close growing saplings would hinder my swing... and open chokes are often overrated in my opinion. I just found out a few weeks ago that I do very well with ultra-full chokes at all sorts of SC targets. I'm beginning to wonder if many of my previous misses with open chokes may have been because of a lack of density in my patterns.






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[Harold Pickens]

I love to hunt grouse with my J Manton 20 ga hammer gun. It has 30" barrels and
cyl/cyl chokes. I shot this 5 bird limit this fall with it. 4 shots, 4 birds, and then the right hammer spring broke on the 5th. Spent the rest of the day with a functional left barrel only and misssed 3 in a row before getting the next. Thats Betty and Fancy in the pic

[C.O.B.]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

I'm beginning to wonder if many of my previous misses with open chokes may have been because of a lack of density in my patterns.






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I doubt it. Most grouse shots are rather close inside 25 yards and thats a long shot where I hunt. Sometimes even 28 inch barrels are to long and I gave up on some nice 30 inch guns a while ago. A choke combination I have begun to appreciate is IC/F in either 26 or 28 inch guns. Foolishly I let a nice DH O frame 16 go that was so choked with 26 inch tubes. That still bothers me

[Double Lab]

I think you've finally figured it out Dean. I've found that 7 1/2's in a modified to full choke will kill any upland bird that I care to hunt.