20 gauge users, opinions please.
- Thread starter JamesM
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I have an Angelo Zoli 20Ga 3" "Silver Pigeon". It is bored IC and Mod. with single non-selectable trigger. I really like it for an upland game gun. Like the Rizzinis mentioned above, you have to distinguish between Angelo and Antonio Zoli. Angelo is no longer in the gun making business. I am probably SOL if I need parts. Only thing I don't like is that the stock is a bit too short and when I shot skeet with it my thumb would hit my nose and make it sore.
That's because 12g is WAY too much gun for grouse! lol
Brutus
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Recently there were two nice sub gauge double guns on our EE. A 20 gauge Browning BSS and a Ruger Red Label in 28 gauge. (The only RRL worth a owning IMO)
Both sold very quickly. No surprise to me.
If I did not have other commitments, I would have made a run at that nice RRL.
Both sold very quickly. No surprise to me.
If I did not have other commitments, I would have made a run at that nice RRL.
The Bobwhite is a nice handling shotgun with good features, but I couldn't get past the wood on mine. It looked like the inside of a cardboard box so got sold tootsweet.
A nice used SxS or O/U in 20ga with IC/M chokes 26" bbls would be my first choice for upland. Double triggers work well for instant choice of bbl. but wouldn't not be a deal breaker. I find pumps and semis to be too long for upland in this part of the world even with a 26" bbl. Way back in the mid 90s I bought a 26" 870SP 12ga with the thought I could use it for ducks and grouse. I think I used it once for upland and looked for a lighter/shorter/handier 20ga SxS after that. An 870 12ga for ducks and a 20ga for grouse makes more sense in the long run.
SKB M100 or M200, Browning BSS, Ruger Red Label or Win M101 to name a few suggestions. I've always liked the SxSs but my SIL recently bought a very nice 20ga 101 26" IC/M that has got my attention. I'm going to try it out this fall.
Rod B
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The Bobwhite is a nice handling shotgun with good features, but I couldn't get past the wood on mine. It looked like the inside of a cardboard box so got sold tootsweet.
A nice used SxS or O/U in 20ga with IC/M chokes 26" bbls would be my first choice for upland. Double triggers work well for instant choice of bbl. but wouldn't not be a deal breaker. I find pumps and semis to be too long for upland in this part of the world even with a 26" bbl. Way back in the mid 90s I bought a 26" 870SP 12ga with the thought I could use it for ducks and grouse. I think I used it once for upland and looked for a lighter/shorter/handier 20ga SxS after that. An 870 12ga for ducks and a 20ga for grouse makes more sense in the long run.
SKB M100 or M200, Browning BSS, Ruger Red Label or Win M101 to name a few suggestions. I've always liked the SxSs but my SIL recently bought a very nice 20ga 101 26" IC/M that has got my attention. I'm going to try it out this fall.
Nice gun & a great looking dog.
Brutus
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Same as Chasseur's except 1971 vintage. And on this day I wears a 28inch full choke barrel versus the 26inch with IC.
Little story on the corn cob fore end. Non-original, but a very kind Mr Marshall from Ithaca Gun Co. ensured that I got this one in the mail.
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Yep that 28ga ruger was some sweet. I pm'd the owner after I seen it saying so. Go for years never seeing one for sale and then in one week we had two listed but the 1st one was as new with super tiger wood 2nd was still fine but hunted with more which is ok also.
Would have bought the 1st one but already had one in the 28ga collection but was still tempted
Cheers
Mine is real clean also
Yes sir somewhere around 6 1/4 I think .
If you like a nice light 28ga for upland I have to say the 28ga Ithaca 37 I bought from Clay is even lighter and super sweet. Just bends the needle at 6 pounds if I recall correctly. Took me probally 2 years before I convinced myself to cough up the cash for that one which I thought was nuts for a pump any pump. That all changed after I got it and looked it over.Take care
