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A few days ago there was a discussion about your favorite shotgun. I will tell you about the most disliked one. It was an old unknown make double with exposed hammers. My father-in -law kept in the smokehouse. It had a homemade stock and a split forearm with about a roll of duct tape on it. I was ashamed of that old rusty gun because my wife's brother carried it to the wedding. I think all hunting seasons were closed in June
 
The one I liked the least was a 410 I used once. I had no respect for it as it was a small gauge single shot shotgun. Fired it holding it in front of my chin, it kicked my right in the chopper.
 
Bought a brand spanking new Winchester 20 gauge pump with
a 30 inch vent rib barrel and bead sights.
Always liked my Winchester rifles.
I couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with that shotgun.
Neither could anyone else in the family.
Put it in a vice and it was right on target, it just didn't fit our long
arms and/or shoulders.
When you pulled it up, center of the vent rib was not where it
looked like it should have been.
I painted a line in the center of the rib at the rise from the barrel.
If you had time to concentrate, rotate the gun until that painted
line actually lined up with the beads and the target, then it was on.
It was a shame to get rid of a brand new gun, but if it don't fit then
it don't fit. I gave it to a nephew who I think gave it to a friend.
 
I had a pump Mosburg, I could not hit a barn if I was inside and the doors were shut,traded for a 1100 Trap Special. My average went from 13 to 18 birds just changing guns.
 
My first 870 Remington. It would hang up whenever I needed it most not sure why. Of course My favorite is another 870 as well and never let me down.
Ron
 
Had a Winchester model 37 single shot 12 gauge that would break and through shell when fired. Traded it off for a differant gun.
 
I have a Winchester model 12 12ga that I don't especially care for because it has a rougher pump action and is fairly heavy to swing when I'm following a real fast flying, darting bird. I know, it's a sought after gun and it is a good pheasant gun, but I'd like to retire it and get something a little lighter and smoother. It's my grandpa's gun so I'm never getting rid of it. I can't walk through the tough grass or corn stalks to pheasant hunt anymore but trying my quickness once in awhile on pigeons is still kind of fun and that's where a lighter smoother gun would be good. Jim
 
Ten gauge goose gun, manufacturer unknown, almost everyone who shot got up off the ground after the first time. There were rarely second shots fired from that gun. The last time I saw it it was hanging over an uncle's fireplace. Looked pretty good there.
 
My dad bought an Ithaca semi automatic 10 gauge when they came out, it would multiple fire sometimes.
 
A Knickerbocker 12 Ga hammerless double barrel. Dude swaped it to granddad for an L.C. Smith 10Ga because amo was expensive and too powerful for grandkids. It would go off laying on a log. It's a merical one of us wasn't killed. My brother-in-law "lost it" while home on leave. I still have the 20Ga Remington model 11 with muzzle brake my bil replaced it with. That was over 60 years ago and I appereiate my bil more with each passing year for what he did on soldier's pay. Anyone wonder what my most valued gun is?
 
We had one of those man killers when I was a kid being small
I was the one to get the 16 gauge the kicked like a mule.
Walt
 
The first shotgun I bought, in about 1970, a Savage Stevens 311 double 12 ga. Still have it, looks like new because I couldn't hit a pheasant with it if my life depended on it. Probably haven't used it for about 30 years.
 
"Anyone wonder what my most valued gun is?" - da.bees

Well, I'm hoping a replacement "L.C. Smith 10Ga". I know I'd love to have one, or a Parker Bros. Either or. My only 10 GA is a H&R single shot with a 36" barrel. When you draw a bead on geese with it, you don't want to miss. It will loosen tooth fillings, is a bit painful to fire, and will knock you out of the boat. I've never been kicked by a mule, but have to imagine that its a close second. Not my favorite, but wouldn't trade it either.

Mark
 
When I was a teenager back in the 1960s I had a bolt action 16ga shotgun. some times when I loaded a round into the chamber it would fire when the bolt was closed. I got rid of that piece of junk before it killed some one. I traded it off for a new Coast to Coast 12ga pump. I still have that gun.
Brian
 
You are right about current value of an L.C. Smith. I offered the Mod 11 to my bil a few times. He always laughed and said if I ever swap the 11 for the 10ga that started the chain of events,he just might take the 10ga if I offed. I would hand it to him and be happy. I didn't realize it at the time but my bil probibly saved a life by getting rid of that *@^&!#$ Knickerbocker. There have been conversations about the Smith over the passed 60 years. It was legend how many ducks and geese were killed (often several by a single shot)with the gun. Most agree the old man was likly full of wild cat whiskey when the trade took place.
 
The 12 guage that some dumba$$ who climbed the fence, pointed at me when I was on Guard Duty in the USMC.

He didn't like MINE very well, either.....
 
My least favorite is anything by Mossberg. They used to be good guns but not anymore. I bought a 500 a couple years ago and the receiver had iron filings all over. I cleaned them out and tried shooting it. It locks up every other shot. I got ticked and put it in the safe and never fired it again. I took a chance and bought a Mossberg 510 mini for the niece to learn on. Jams and locks up. I sent it in to Mossberg to be worked on. Just got it back so haven't had a chance to try it out yet but they sent it back with live shells loaded in it. I know it wasn't loaded when I sent it in and it isn't my brand of shells. Talked to salesman at Bass Pro and he said several Mossbergs are being sent in. I do love their top mounted safety though.
 
Had a 12 gage double one time I bought at a sale for 25$. Sometimes it would fire both barrels at the same time.
 
When I was real young I had a 12 gauge catalog gun. It was a single shot but I called it my automatic because each time I fired it the breach would fly open and eject the shell over my shoulder.
 
As kids, we were sitting on the side steps of what we thought was an empty house, late one night, smoking cigarettes. Just got comfortable when the side door flew open and a very large man jumped out yelling that he "had told you kids about hangin' around here". Before the door hit the wall, we were up and running. Halfway across this big front yard, he unloaded the first shot. I have no idea if it were 12 ga, or 16 ga but the salt burned a might on my lower leg.
 
Winchester 1400, looked like new and I figured out why. POS was good for one shot before it jammed, failed to feed, failed to eject. Spent 99% of its life sitting on a shelf because it wouldn't work. Later I learned it wasn't just mine.
 
I'm right with ya on a ithca feather weight's
I have a 20 my favorite, 16 & a 12.... Still
looking for a 410.... & I don't need a 10gauge
 
H&R single shot, if you were not careful you could push the barrel latch instead of the hammer and the shell would fly over your shoulder and away the game would go unaware of the life extension they just received!
 
870 pump - 12ga. I bought it 'used' (apparently it was was broken)... Every time I pulled the trigger it would cycle a shell - all by itself. Violently ripping the forearm out of my hand. Took it to a gunsmith. He said it was fine. I sold it for $100 and told the guy I sold it to that the gunsmith said it was fine. Turns out, it wasn't fine...
 
My Springfield Savage 67F 20 Ga. pump . Plum hate it unless your shooting over 75 yards . You will never hit a bird with it . Now on a long range shot at a rabbit that is another story . The choke on it is so tight that you would not believe unless you saw it yourself. I was out with a buddy one day and WHY i was out that day i still have not figured it out because it was way below my comfort zone . The snow was hard packed and we were not breaking thru the crust and walking on top of the snow . The dogs flushed a rabbit out of some heavy under brush and i shot at it and MISSED . Eugene asked me how did you miss that rabbit all i could do was shrug my shoulders and we started looking to see where i hit I had a bit of a lead on the rabbit and my shot hit in ft. with a pattern of about two inches wide at twenty yards . So since that was the only rabbit we saw in three hours of freezing our donkey off we did some testing of this gun and at about 75 yards ya get a two foot pattern with a 3 inch mag and #5 shot and at about 100 yds it will open up to about three foot and it does shoot low from point of aim and it is not just me on this .
 
Gotta be a Savage Stevens 311 double 12 ga.
Crude, clunkly, painful and ugly. A finger breaker. Best used as an oar to row the duck boat home.
 
I"ve got a 1400 and I like it. The key to keeping it from jamming is regular cleaning. At least that has been my experience.
 
I guess my most disliked one was the Ruger Red Label in 20 ga.

Now on the other hand my Red Label in 12 ga is VERY nice !

I guess the lighter 20 ga even with light loads still pounded me hard then the 12 so I sold the 20

I love the 410's for just blasting away at targets as when reloaded they barely use any powder or shot so the cost is cheap.

Rem. 870 I had one and it was too long for me so I sold it.
Win model 12's are fine
Mossberg 500 I really like too. Tang safety and not having a flipper gate for the magazine are big pluses for me !
 
I have an old 16ga bolt action shotgun with an adjustable choke. Believe it was purchased through JC Penny, years ago. Has the name of some old time golfer on it - guess he was their poster child for sporting goods back in the day. Anyway, that thing kicks like a mule! Shoots OK, cycles OK, but did I say it KICKS LIKE A MULE?

Fortunately, I didn't pay anything for it - on permanent loan from a now long lost cousin of my wife. Said he didn't have a place for it where he lived, and then he divorced and moved several states away. If he ever shows up and wants it, I'll gladly surrender it. Just taking up space in gun cabinet.
 
Sorry, totally missed the stuff about the shotgun wedding. But below when da.bees mentioned a 10 GA LC Smith, he got my undivided attention. Its very similar to sittin in a church with the wife, wearing a suit, at a wedding, and you look over and your close buddy reaches into his suit and pulls out a pint of Jack Daniels and motions to meet him out back. You don't hear another word uttered by the preacher, bride and groom, or the wife the rest of the time you're sittin there drooling at the bottle and fresh air.

Mark
 
Believe it or not, my least favorite is the Benelli Super Black Eagle. Paid $1800 for it and hated every shot I fired with it. It would not pattern worth a darn and it would jam (on good shells) from time to time. I tried every shell, choke tube combination I could find and still didn't shoot good. I missed 2 gobblers in one day with it. Went home and got the Mossberg 835 and dropped a gobbler the next morning at twice the yardage.

Brother in law and I had a trap competition. The Benelli would only go so far. You could shoot clays 30 yards further back using the 870. The exact distance held true for both of us shooting it. It wasn't just me.

I must have gotten a lemon, because others absolutely love theirs. I traded mine for a used Remington 1187 and a new Ruger 10/22. Best move I ever made.
 
Recoil pads do get hard as they get old.

I bought a used Winchester 1300 20 GA pump that I thought would be nice for small game hunting. It had a recoil pad but it kicked harder than my 12 gauge that actually weighed less. A new recoil pad fixed that.
 
(quoted from post at 07:03:05 01/09/14) I'm right with ya on a ithca feather weight's
I have a 20 my favorite, 16 & a 12.... Still
looking for a 410.... & I don't need a 10gauge
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You'll be looking for long, long time. Ithaca never made the M37 in 10 ga, 28 ga or 410. 12, 16 and 20 only.
 
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