All-time favorite Sub Gauge Upland Bird hunting Gun?

[Public Land Drew]

Just getting into sub gauges, been looking around quite a bit. What is your favorite sub-gauge gun make, model, and caliber? Chasing all sorts of birds pheasant, quail, chukar, and huns.

Currently, I shoot an original Benelli SBE & Berette 686 onyx both in 12-gauge

Bird season cannot come soon enough!

 

[NDGuy]

Browning Feather Lightning 20ga

 

[Runningwater]

16 gauge Fox Sterlingworth. The new toy for this season isn't really a sub-gauge but it acts like one. A 6lb Joseph Lang box lock with 2 1/2 chambers. I like old stuff!

 

[dtrkyman]

20ga Browning gold(Belgium made), me and that gun just get along! I have used a 20ga or .410 for upland and doves my whole life!

 

[ceejay]

I think a 20ga is ideal. Beretta and Browning make a solid shot gun. The Rizzini O/U seem like nice guns.

 

[jmez]

Ruger Red Label 20 gague

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[Jim1187]

The 20 gauge is my favorite of the sub-gauges. I continue my search for the ideal double CZ's bobwhite was pretty close but I kept picking my 870 over it so when a friend asked I sold it to him.
If you shoot your 686 well and an o/u appeals I'd start my search there on the used market. If a semi appeals Benelli has a variety of options. Myself, I have a hard time resisting a classic pump action. If I stumble across a model 12 or ithaca 37 when I have the jingle in my pocket I suspect it will follow me home.

 

[UpTop]

Not a stacked fan personally. So for me a benelli ultralite in 20 or a beretta a400 upland in 28 or 20. Probably the a400 just because I prefer gas over inertia, especially in sub guage territory.

 

[Alberta Jonny]

28ga Fausti DEA

 

[Dryfly1]

28 guage for sure

 

[Dented]

Fausti DEA 20 gauge SxS, double triggers, splinter forend, 26 inch barrels.

 

[long hunter]

16 gauge Fox Sterlingworth. The new toy for this season isn't really a sub-gauge but it acts like one. A 6lb Joseph Lang box lock with 2 1/2 chambers. I like old stuff!

Have a 16 and a 20 fox great guns.

 

[digger]

Browning 725 sporting in 28 gauge. My son loves his SBE3 in 28 as well

 

[Dos Perros]

I like my SKB 505 in 20ga. Wish I could find another.

 

[rideold]

16 gauge Ugartechea....that said I shoot a CZ Bobwhite in 16....just haven't made the investment in the Uggi....someday!

 

[CobraChicken]

Franchi and weatherby 20s have treated me well. Franchi ou, weatherby semi auto

 

[SwiftShot]

I love 28 gauge for upland bird and dove.

 

[bigeyedfish]

20 gauge Franchi AL-48

 

[finner]

Fair Iside in 16ga

 

[Dos XX]

Beretta Onyx Pro 20 ga o/u.