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< 16ga. Guns ~ Nothing but 16? |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:02 am
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Joined: 21 Dec 2005
Posts: 722
Location: Napoleon, MI
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Hey fellas,
I'm pretty sure this has been posted before but what the heck....
Who out there, in our small corner of the interweb, owns and shoots ONLY 16ga guns. (rifles and handguns omitted naturally).
I've almost pulled it off, but I can't seem to shake keeping one 20ga and one 12ga. I'm reconsidering that though, as I simply don't get to hunt and shoot as much as I'd like too, ever. So I figure why not just 16ga everything, since I enjoy it so thoroughly.
Interested in the replies.... |
_________________ Good luck & great hunting,
-Danny Pratt |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:04 am
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Joined: 21 Dec 2005
Posts: 722
Location: Napoleon, MI
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I already have my own reply...
I have 2 12ga guns and 2 20ga guns...not just 1 each...I'm already letting myself down. |
_________________ Good luck & great hunting,
-Danny Pratt |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:14 am
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Joined: 08 Oct 2006
Posts: 1395
Location: Tappahannock, Virginia
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I'm down to two 12ga guns. First is a BPS waterfowl type finish. Second is a Browning Gold, that used to be a clays gun. I have not shot either in 5+ years.
The wife has a few 20ga's.
Other than that it's 16, of course. And if this season has taught me anything, I could sell them all , keep my Uggie, and still be a very happy man. |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:18 am
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Joined: 08 Oct 2012
Posts: 371
Location: Indiana
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My wife has and shoots 12 and 20 but 16 gauge is all I own and shoot in shotgun. I shoot 300 to 400 rounds per week between trap and sporting clays. My wife claims if browning would make a hi rib trap 725 in 16 gauge she would switch to 16 gauge. |
_________________ Joe
Browning 525 sporting 32" 16 gauge
Browning 525 sporting 30" 16 gauge
Browning citori grade 6 28" 16 gauge |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:26 am
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Joined: 09 Jan 2013
Posts: 2168
Location: Florida
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I own others but for the most part shoot 16ga 99% of the time . |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:59 am
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9463
Location: Amarillo, Texas
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I ONLY shoot the 16 gauge, plus the 10s, 12s, 20s, 24s 28s,32s, and 410s.
Mike |
Last edited by skeettx on Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:55 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:17 pm
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Joined: 16 Feb 2007
Posts: 181
Location: Great White North
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Down to 4 Brownings left, 3 16's and a still NIB Silver Hunter 20g/26". |
_________________ Browning Gold 20/26
Browning Gold 20/28
Browning A5 SS Lightning |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:19 pm
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Love of shotguns transcends love of the 16 gauge. That said I just shoot 12's and 16's. The 16's in my lineup are my "lil' gun." |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 12:37 pm
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Joined: 30 Sep 2015
Posts: 640
Location: NEW SALISBURY INDIANA
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see my signature, I shoot and reload 16ga only |
_________________ 16ga 3-Win 37
16ga Ithaca 37 1946
16ga Western Auto Revelation
16ga Browning A-5 1929
16ga Marlin 90 1939
16ga browning citori lightning grade 3 2003
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 2:30 pm
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Joined: 21 Apr 2008
Posts: 94
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No- too many beautiful Auto-5's made in other gauges to ignore. |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 2:45 pm
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Joined: 01 Oct 2007
Posts: 962
Location: Minnesota
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The 16 is a great gun, but not the only one.
I use 12,16 and 20 for pheasants.
Ducks and geese 12 ga only
Doves, 410, lots of 28s, 20 and 16.
Sporting clays, 20, lots of 16 and 12 ga. |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 3:02 pm
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Joined: 06 Aug 2004
Posts: 2172
Location: Kansas High Plains
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I'm almost always toting a 16, but in a couple weeks I'm heading west for the last pheasant outing of the season, without a 16ga in tow ! I have a new (to me) 20ga A grade Fox that I hope to get on a few quail, and I've decided to take my "big gun" (a Sterlingworth 12 that often gets neglected) and some 1-1/4ozers for those far-flushing late season roosters. |
_________________ I feel a warm spot in my heart when I meet a man whiling away an afternoon...and stopping to chat with him, hear the sleek lines of his double gun whisper "Sixteen." - Gene Hill, Shotgunner's Notebook |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 3:22 pm
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Joined: 26 Apr 2010
Posts: 3177
Location: NCWa
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I don't shoot a 16 gauge often, but when I do, it's the only thing that I shoot. |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:00 pm
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Joined: 09 Dec 2009
Posts: 1370
Location: Cheyenne, Wy
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Shooting only 16 ga would not be my idea of enjoying all guns, I have most all, and shoot them all.
Why would anyone limit them selves in any way, if their were options?
This is the 16 ga society, not a cult.
Dale |
_________________ One man with courage makes a majority.
...Andrew Jackson... |
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Mon Jan 02, 2017 5:19 pm
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Joined: 24 Jun 2013
Posts: 2067
Location: canandaigua - western n.y. (formerly deerhunter)
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10 , 12 , 16 , 20 , 28 and 410 - don't have mike Skeetx's exotics !! 28 leads the way , then the rest follow in ... Dale , you still got the 410 High Std - that's my most during the summer skeet gun !? |
_________________ Molly sez AArrrooooooah ! |
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