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11-15-2019, 05:54 PM | #3 | ||||||
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Both my Parkers are 16ga, 28” barrels, 0 frame and most of my hunting these days is for released pheasants. I’ve always used #6. I agree Kenny, it’s the best all round gauge for upland birds.
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11-15-2019, 06:06 PM | #4 | ||||||
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A 1935 double trigger straight grip Model 21 with 28” barrels bored cylinder and modified. No better upland gun ever. It’s been all over the mid-Atlantic states, Maine, Montana, Uruguay and Argentina. A buttplate gun with factory 14 3/4 inch LOP. Perfect for my 6’4” frame. It’s never let me down!
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11-15-2019, 06:12 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Sterlingworth and A grade Fox 16 for grouse and woodcock. Both are open choked and do the job well when I do mine. They are both 5 - 8 so are a pleasure to carry all day and pleasant to look at.
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11-15-2019, 06:25 PM | #6 | ||||||
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Over the years I've done a lot of hunting with 16-gauge guns. When I still lived in Virginia I shot a lot of Doves with a 16-gauge KE-Grade Remington --
16-ga KE-Grade and Doves Sep 1999.jpg On that same farm I had a great pass where this 32-inch barrel A-Grade Ansley H. Fox was quite the performer -- 303577 02.JPG While I very seldom hunt with a pump or autoloader, one day I took out a 1938 vintage Remington Sportsman 16-gauge. The first Rooster up I missed cleanly three shots. Later that day Skitso went on point right at the edge of a bluff. Three Roosters took off into clear blue sky 60 or 70 feet above a stubble field, and I shot the only triple of my life. 27 Oct 06 01.jpg Late years my go to gun when I need to used non-toxic shells when upland hunting on public land, my RBL-16 gets the nod -- 22 Nov 2013 01 Tucannon cropped.jpg I don't own a Parker Bros. 16-gauge. Likewise, I don't own a late Remington Parker Gun. A 16-gauge with open choke barrels in the 241xxx/242xxx range could find a space in my gun room!! |
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11-15-2019, 06:42 PM | #7 | ||||||
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I like my 1 frame and 0 frame VH's for grouse. Both equally effective...
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11-15-2019, 07:34 PM | #8 | ||||||
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all of my quail hunting is done with 16 gauge side X sides.
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11-15-2019, 07:41 PM | #9 | ||||||
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16's are my hands down favorite pheasant guns. I own several but I love the Philadelphia Sterlingworths for carrying.
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11-15-2019, 07:49 PM | #10 | ||||||
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For 20 years most of my grouse hunting was with a host of 16ga s/s and a Merkel O/U which I still have it has 29 1/4 " barrel ,solid rib and double triggers. A 16ga 0 frame has been on my want list for a while. A light 16 is the ultimate Grouse gun. Trouble is I am hooked on 20ga Parkers and 20ga Win. 21's.
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