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06-25-2022, 07:16 AM | #13 | ||||||
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My Parker SB, SA and GHE. I’ve won a lot of bling with those three guns.
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06-25-2022, 09:07 AM | #14 | ||||||
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This a tough one. It's like asking me to pick my favorite Grandchild. All my guns are the best, that's why my safe is overflowing. I love vintage and current .22's. I love handguns. But shotguns are what float my boat and especially 20 and 28gauges. I've got multiple venues to exercise these scatterguns and I do a couple of times a week. As far as SxS's go my best would have to be my VHE 28 with 30" barrels. But unfortunately these old treasures can't take the heavy use that sporting clays demands of them on a regular basis. They are relegated to the vintage shoots, occasional outings on the clays course and virtually all hunting.
So my best right now would have to be 2 Perazzi's, a 20 and a 28ga which can take the heavy toll that target shooting places on them and if, and I mean if they break, they won't cost and arm and a leg to repair and I can usually do it myself.
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06-25-2022, 12:30 PM | #15 | ||||||
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Best by way of originality(condition)..12 gauge Otto Bock. Practically as new condition...95% case colors...Bernard damascus barrels as smooth as silk with zero fading or wear...32 lpi checking on stock and forend with no visible wear, and engraving comparable to a diamond grade Prussian Charles Daly.
Best by way of upgrading...20 gauge Winchester model 21. Restocked, and custom engraved, by Roy Vail. Best by my ability to shoot it...12 gauge Grade 2 Parker hammergun. Refinished wood and metal...reversed choked and on a #1 frame. |
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06-25-2022, 12:43 PM | #16 | ||||||
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I just cannot pick the best shotgun I have I care for all of them....charlie
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06-25-2022, 01:02 PM | #17 | ||||||
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Almost as bad as picking my favorite dog.......ALL of them.
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06-25-2022, 01:42 PM | #18 | ||||||
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As much as I love my shotguns, I'd have to say my Winchester 61. My brother bought it at an auction in the 1950's; he and Dad were on opposite sides of the room bidding against each other and didn't know it; I think they ran the price all the way up to $40. I don't shoot my rifles much these days but this'n and I were almost constant companions from about my 12th year on. Local squirrels, bunnies and prairie dogs hated it...
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06-25-2022, 01:55 PM | #19 | ||||||
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The best condition gun I own is a Fox DE 12ga 30" that came out of the Dupont family. I bought it at Pintail Vintagers many years ago from a walk in. I call the gun "Simply D Vine", mint condition. My best ever duck gun (I've owned a couple dozen LOL) is a Super Fox C-HE 12ga 30" with XE checkering that came from Dana Tauber. I almost couldn't miss with the Super and have shot well over 100 ducks with the gun. It's retired to the gunroom wall. It's more satisfying for me to just look at it every day and think of the great times with great dogs and great hunting partners at my beloved marsh. My best ever bird gun is a Fox CE 20ga 26" IC/M. I've shot wild pheasants, grouse, woodcock, mearns quail, bobs and blues. My best ever "put a smile of my face gun" and maybe the most fun to shoot is my Parker GH 8ga 36". I could go on and on but you get the point I really enjoy this hobby and lifestyle.
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06-25-2022, 03:18 PM | #20 | ||||||
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I am blessed to have 3 safes full of mostly side by sides. When I open the door to take a gun I almost always pick one of 3 or 4 guns. Grouse and woodcock hunting. #1 Parker VH 16 O frame. Or A Parker Repo 20/16. For Pheasent & chucker Preserve hunts it’s usually A Parker Repro 28 gauge. Straight grip w a beaver tail or A 1934 EJ Churchill XXV straight grip 410. @ 4lb 2oz . When you continue to choose the same guns I guess that answers the Question.
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