Poll....who is hunting with small gauge for up-land birds?

[Mills]

Always happy to be of service. I will say I want to get a Parker 12 gauge half frame and take it quail hunting. RST 7/8 or 3/4 12 gauge should be just the thing. The type of load used is probably as important as gauge

[Double Lab]

Mr. Gietler;

Me thinks you are a troll and as I get older I have absolutely no tolerance for posters like you. Please go away. If you live near me I'd love to challenge you to a shooting match, either live birds or clay targets, you using your BSS 12ga with 1 1/4oz loads (which I'm sure you shoot at everything) and I will take the pitiful 28ga. and proceed to show you just how wrong Askins, and you, are.

BTW; I have a BSS 12ga. and it's a club.

[Battue]

Originally Posted by harry gietler

Here are a few more words of wisdom from Askins book The popularity of the 16ga. is about on a par with death and taxes. The 20ga. on the other hand remains fairly popular shooting iron. However, there isnt anything you can do with a 20ga. that cannot be accomplished with twice the efficiency swinging a 12ga. Next we come to the stinking poor 28 and 410 ga.the unparalleled bird cripplers and the most efficient wounder of game. Harry ps. shoot 12 ga.guns, the king of the gauges

Askins obviously spent more time writing than being around good shooters. There are people out there that would let him use a 12 against their 28. At the end of the day he would be looking for someone to pay for an article...

[Craig Larter]

20 gauge 26" barrels for me either Fox or Parker everything from wild Pheasants in SD, wild quail in TX to woodcock and grouse closer to home. The Parker is 26" O frame and weights 6 lbs 12 oz. It has some heft which keeps my swing going on wild pheasants. The Fox is 5 lbs 14 oz and more open chokes, my grouse and woodcock gun.
Big ducks are a different story strictly a 12 ga or 10 ga affair for me.

[Researcher]

I've shot wild Pheasants with every gauge from my 12-gauge 3-inch Super-Fox to the 28-gauge, and I've shot some Doves and Quail with the .410-bore. For most of my years the great bulk of my Pheasants and prairie grouse have been with "Meat-in-the-Pot" my 1914 vintage A-Grade, Ansley H. Fox.

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Late years I have shot quite a few with my RBL-16, especially in areas where non-tox is required. Two of my recent acquisitions have been 16-gauges, both of 1941 vintage, a Model 21 Skeet Gun and a 26-inch barrel VHE. Hoping I live long enough to shoot some birds with both.

[Keith Doty]

Gentlemen in Texas don't hunt quail with a 12 ga.! I'm a 20 ga. guy for dove and quail mostly. I HAVE, on occasion, pulled out my 30" FxF 1 1/2 VH 12 ga.for those late season high flying doves 'cause it works.
Waterfowl........all's fair. I shoot my 16s a lot over decoys, tend to go to 12 ga. late in the season. Birds are more heavily feathered and sometimes a bit shy and wary. I'm only mad at the geese about once or twice a year anymore. Then it's an Ithica Mag 10 or a 3 1/2 mag 12 ga Winchester.

[Bob Jurewicz]

I hope our PGCA Board does not degrade to the level commonly found on the Doublegunshop Board. Differences of opinion should be recognized and accepted as just that differences of opinion.
I know Mr. Gietler. He is not a troll and does not deserve that kind of treatment for one of his first posts here.
Bob Jurewicz

[todd allen]

Originally Posted by Bob Jurewicz

I hope our PGCA Board does not degrade to the level commonly found on the Doublegunshop Board. Differences of opinion should be recognized and accepted as just that differences of opinion.
I know Mr. Gietler. He is not a troll and does not deserve that kind of treatment for one of his first posts here.
Bob Jurewicz

Thanks, Bob. I've shot competitively for many years, have made money shooting a12 gauge. I totally get the dominance of the 12 gauge, as an all around gun. I love to hear what people think regarding guns, gauges, etc.
That said, I will be opening our dove season with a .410.
I will pick my shots, and promise to not cripple any game birds.

[BRDHNTR]

16 & 20 parkers

[Zacharysmith]

16's and 20's for me here in NH. Added a 28 to the collection this year and will hopefully be fit when October comes.