Shotguns I have loved before

[Rifleman]

Here are some shotguns I have owned and wish I never sold.

My Belgium Browning A-5 20 gauge, gift from Grandpa
My Browning XT trap 12 gauge with adj. comb, I won alot with this gun
My first 12 gauge 870 Wingmaster
My first trap gun, Remington 3200 special trap
My first shotgun a single shot Stevens 20 gauge.

[Blue-Dot-37.5]

My list is a bit shorter - I still have them all!! ;D

Blue-Dot-37.5

[Bayouman]

My Dad's A-5 Belgium Browning 12 ga & his ole turkey buster 870 Wingmaster 3" 12 Ga. Mag. 30" bbl full choke(before screw-ins) will be planted with me for sure. ;D

They were beat up big time when handed down to me so had both professionally reblued and stocks refinished. Man do those guns carry some wonderful memories for sure.

[RandyWakeman]

Rifleman said:

Here are some shotguns I have owned and wish I never sold.

My Belgium Browning A-5 20 gauge, gift from Grandpa

My favorite, the American Dream:

www.chuckhawks.com/browning_A-5.htm

[MarkKw]

I have a lot that are tied on this but if I had to choose just one I would have to do it by usage rather than across the board.

Upland hunting & sporting clays:
Ithaca M-37 in sweet 16 & Winchester model 12 in 20ga

At range Ducks/Geese/turkey:
Ithaca Mag 10

Medium size birds / large at close range:
Mossberg 500 in 12ga

Skeet:
SKB 20ga gas-op

Combat:
Winchester defender or Mossberg 500 in 12ga. however both need to be fine tuned before they will perform equally well.

[Rifleman]

The mag 10 is an awesome goose gun !

[MarkKw]

Wish I still had it! Had to pay the rent & light bill during hard times...

[TKO]

Browning B80 Upland with English stock . . . sad part is I sold it to a guy at work, so I see and hear about it all the time.

[bubba]

I had an SKB century trap model, single shot, that 'fit' me perfectly ( you trap shooters know what I mean ).
It was loose as a goose, worn, beat, the previous owner used a single shot w/o a safety as a goose gun!

I found another very much like it, that had briley choke tubes in it, that was magna ported, that was checkered at 22 lpi, beauty........... and I could hit a clay pigeon with it, and had sold the old one to a co-worker,

I USE to be a respected shooter on the trap field, but without that gun, my scores suffered severely.

I have since found a browning citori trap - but I miss that ol canoe paddle of a trap gun

-bubba

[Redclub]

My guns were a lot like rifleman's
Ist shotgun was a 20 steven's with plastic stock
No.2 was a 20 mossberg bolt
No.3 was an Ithaca sxs that would go off when you closed it. My Dad took it away
At age 12 I got a 870 12 Ga. That was in "54" or thereabouts Still have it.
I had 2 3200 trap guns as well as a perrazi (wife got those in a divorce).
Now I use SXS for upland. Fine spanish guns
For waterfowl I use a Rem.11-96 This I feel is one of the best guns rem. ever made Only for one year.
I am a rem. man.
I shoot a 10 ga. Bps for geese.
I sure wish I had that Ithaca Though
REdClub

[Kudzu]

I'm with blue-dot - I figure that if I don't sell, NO REGRETS. Have gave some away to close friends and family, I can still go visit.

[Pocampo]

Rifleman,
I guess we must have loved them all at one time or we wouldn't have bought them.........yah right
Of all the guns i have owned including pumps, autos, doubles and stack barrels my all time favorite wing gun is the old Winchester 1897 pump. This gun just fits me better than all the others i've owned. I also like the feeling you get when you cock the external hammer. Shes' not as slick pumping as my old Ithaca 37, but she is one heck of a meat getter.
Pocampo

[ozarkwhittler]

It was around 1912 when Grandpa paid $12.00 for a Iver Johnson Owl Head ribbed barrel 12 ga. for my dad as a wedding present. This was a single barrel that I believe was a trap model. Anyway, it kept a lot of meat on the table during the depression years and the barrel has some small dents and the forearm was somehow lost. I recall that when you fired it without the forearm you ended up with the barrel in on hand and the action and stock in the other. After becoming a gunsmith I re-blued it, replaced the stock and forearm and a few years ago passed it on to my son. In my life I have seen very few singles with rib barrels. It still shoots great patterns.

[Chas062]

I have a few I cant part with like the ole 1100, shot trap skeet, deer, turkeys with this gun. cant ever part with it. Usually now if I get rid of a gun it is to trade up to something I think is more usefull or more interesting.