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< 16ga. Guns ~ 16 gauge series on best guns |
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Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:29 am
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Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 1007
Location: Lancaster county, Pa
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Skeettx,
Do you use 170 gr or 196gr for dove? spire point or round nose? |
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Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:56 am
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
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Location: Amarillo, Texas
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GREAT QUESTION!!!
I INSURE there is no ammo in the rifle chamber as I HATE the side safety and often push the barrel selector instead of the safety, what a mess I am!!!!
Mike
p.s. if you need assistance posting your pictures, let me know |
Last edited by skeettx on Sat Apr 01, 2017 12:09 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Fri Mar 31, 2017 4:27 pm
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Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 1943
Location: Lowcountry Ga.
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Not my favorite 16, but my favorite gun, dog and photo of me on a cold January dawn dove shoot that was a real burner of a shoot with only 4 guns.
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Fri Mar 31, 2017 5:43 pm
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Joined: 09 Dec 2009
Posts: 1370
Location: Cheyenne, Wy
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Gil, that is a great picture. I take it that is Abbey between your legs, and it looks like a Win model 12 to me?
Dale |
_________________ One man with courage makes a majority.
...Andrew Jackson... |
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Fri Mar 31, 2017 7:09 pm
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Joined: 31 Aug 2005
Posts: 1257
Location: Nebraska
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Gil, that is sweet! Is pup head-resting or just checking out the action to the right? How do you not just reach down and scratch/pet that head? |
_________________ Bore, n. Shotgun enthusiast's synonym for "gauge" ; everybody else's synonym for "shotgun enthusiast." - Ed Zern |
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Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:29 pm
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Joined: 20 Jun 2006
Posts: 749
Location: Kelso, Tennessee
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It could be that the Winchester model 12 16 is the best shotgun ever. |
_________________ i reckon so. I guess we all died a little in that damn war. |
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Fri Mar 31, 2017 9:12 pm
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Joined: 13 Oct 2015
Posts: 348
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My 16ga Mod12, passed down to me from my Grandfather, a great gun and it served me as my only gun for 21 years of hunting. Here it is after a dove and eurasian-dove shoot last year.
This is my only 16ga, but it being my first shotgun and longtime only gun, I have a deep love for it and the 16ga. Lately however I'm starting to want a semi-auto 16 to shoot steel shot with duck hunting, but don't know that many options...
If one of you guys wants to use this "best of" thread to talk about "the Best Semi-Auto 16gauge guns, both Gas and Recoil", I'd love to read it! Right now I'm thinking about an 11-48 or Auto5, but would need late model for steel shot. And I'd really like choke tubes. All I know of that fits right now is the new Browning Sweet16 A5, are there any other new production options for me?
Thx! |
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Sat Apr 01, 2017 4:45 am
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9464
Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Sat Apr 01, 2017 6:24 am
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Joined: 07 Aug 2013
Posts: 163
Location: Utah
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My best and favorites
SIACE hammer gun
Winchester Model 12 (the 16 really is the pick of the litter of Model 12s)
Customized Parker VHE engraved by Orville Kuhl
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Sat Apr 01, 2017 7:32 am
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Joined: 12 Mar 2012
Posts: 687
Location: Ontario
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That is a sweet picture Gil! |
_________________ 1921 Pieper 29" 6 lbs 10 oz
2003 Citori White Lightning 26" 6 lbs 10 oz
1932 Husqvarna 310AS 29.5" 6 lbs 7 oz
1925 Ferlach 29" 6 lbs 7 oz
1923 Greifelt 29" 6 lbs 1 oz
1928 Simson 29.5" 6 lbs
1893 Lindner Daly FW 28” 5 lb 11oz |
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Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:59 am
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Joined: 04 Mar 2008
Posts: 1943
Location: Lowcountry Ga.
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Thanks, fellas. Photo was a "selfie/doggie/gunnie" taken January, 2014. Abby showed better sense than I by moving unsolicited between my legs to get out of a cold wind while I was seated on my dove stool . Temps were in the high 20's, but the windchill made it worse. The wind started at sunrise and we weren't prepared for it. I ended up with a heckuva cold but it was a memorable dove hunt. Good thing about a morning shoot is it doesn't last long and we limited quickly. Willa, Abby's half sister, wasn't born until May of that year. Gil
PS: Dale, it's a 1957 M12 in 16, |
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Sat Apr 01, 2017 11:20 am
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Joined: 12 Mar 2012
Posts: 687
Location: Ontario
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Thought it looked familiar, Gil. I sold a 1957 M12 field 16 just last fall. |
_________________ 1921 Pieper 29" 6 lbs 10 oz
2003 Citori White Lightning 26" 6 lbs 10 oz
1932 Husqvarna 310AS 29.5" 6 lbs 7 oz
1925 Ferlach 29" 6 lbs 7 oz
1923 Greifelt 29" 6 lbs 1 oz
1928 Simson 29.5" 6 lbs
1893 Lindner Daly FW 28” 5 lb 11oz |
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Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:43 pm
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Joined: 09 Dec 2009
Posts: 1370
Location: Cheyenne, Wy
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Gil, thought so. My Mod 12 was made in 1920. I bought it from a fellow on the site.
I do have a Ithaca M37, IC, 26" barrel made in 1957 though.
NOW, if I just had the body to hunt again!
Dale |
_________________ One man with courage makes a majority.
...Andrew Jackson... |
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Sun Apr 02, 2017 5:30 am
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Joined: 05 Nov 2015
Posts: 28
Location: Wisconsin
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This is my go to grouse gun
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Sun Apr 02, 2017 6:11 am
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9464
Location: Amarillo, Texas
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Shredder,
Great picture, more about the gun please
Mike |
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