Favourite Repeaters

My favourite pump would be a tie between the Remington 870 Wingmaster and Winchester Model 12. Favourite semi would be a Belgian made Browning Auto 5. For the money I don't think there was ever a more successfully engineered, mechanically dependable, quality shotgun as an Auto 5. Unfortunately I could never shoot the Auto 5 accurately having grown up pointing a Remington Sportsman 58 which, if it successfully cycled, seemed like it could never miss.
 
Love Beretta semis. I have an Extrema 1, a 391 parallel target with a moneymaker barrel job, and my daughter shoots a 20ga 391. All guns never miss a beat. I do love the look and feel of a classic SxS too though but it’s likely mostly romance. If I need to kill pheasants, I turn to my 16ga model 12. It fits and hits!
 
I love all my shotguns. I have had all the pumps and the winchester model 12 is my favorite. I have had most of the semi's and my favorite is the browning auto 5.Of the two, I would pick a model 12 in 16Ga.
 
Three of my favorite repeaters, for upland birds, are:

1. 20 ga. Model 12, solid rib skeet gun with 26" barrel with WS-1 choke
2. 16 ga. Model 12, solid rib field gun with 28" barrel choked modified.
3. 12 ga. Model 12, two-pin vented rib skeet gun with 26" barrel with WS-1 choke.

Honorable mention are two:

1. Winchester M50, vented rib, 26" barrel with WS-1 choke
2. Browning Superposed Lightning, skeet gun, 28" barrels skeet over skeet.
 
I bought a Stevens 520 on the EE here. I now own two. Slick action plus 20 second takedown: what's not to like? The only reason these went out of production was manufacturing cost. Modern CNC could probably fix that. Like it better than either my Ithaca or 870. I have never owned a semi, so cannot judge them.
 
I do like O/U shotguns ( need more ) but also like most any nice fitting gun. Pumps has to be, by #owned I guess M12 ( 1914 & 1917 and still function like new) then 870. Semi love the A303 but a friend has an SX3 that shoots really well for me.
 
Like a few on this thread rifles are secondary to my needs 2 hunting calibers 1 22lr 1 varmint no handguns .
Shotguns another thing absolutely an addiction mostly pumps started shoguning at the ages of about 9 or 10
First love model 12’s ones I still own
1940’s pigeon trap B carved wood standard stock won many shoot off’’s with this one
1959 20ga deluxe field gorgeous gun
1940’s 16ga skeet grade 2 bbl set matching serial no, solid rib full & mod
Y series skeet gun
Trap grade solid rib duck gun
A few other field grade guns
Remington 31 TC trap
Remington 31 skeet
31 20ga field
31 16 ga field
Win model 50 20 ga 2bbl set full @ mod
Win super 1 skeet gun
Win super x1 field
A few higher grade wingmasters 12’s and 20’s
Ithaca 37 20ga a couple of versions
Parker 12 ga 1 1/2 frame I shoot this gun in the field today redone by Chris dawe and Oscar cobb beautiful gun
16 ga Parker both are vhe grades
Remington 3200 compation grade doubles gun
Owned 3 win model 21’s 12ga overrated in my opinion couldn’t hit s barn door with any of them Maybe the small ga.’s handle better . Sold them all
Most of these guns were acquired between 1975 and 2000 so for those of you that know values didn’t pay today’s prices.
There a few others but this is the core . Many others have come and gone .
In fact some of them one would say I stole just paid what people were asking 425$ for a pigeon grade model 12 bought in 1986 . Ok no more exsamples
 
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I have owned; Benelli Novas(Mulitple), Winchester 12, Ithaca 37, Remington 870(Express & Wingmaster) and BPS. The only slide-action I currently own is a BPS. I currently have 2 semis, the much loved Winchester 1400 which has been dead reliable and an Akkar Churchill semi that can be ammo fussy at times(still new). If buying new, tomorrow I'd want a BPS in 20ga or Remington 1100 Sporting(20 or 28ga). The Benelli Nova for me does everything asked of it, Ijust wish they make it wood, they are an ugly gun.
 
struff55 said:
Like a few on this thread rifles are secondary to my needs 2 hunting calibers 1 22lr 1 varmint no handguns .
Shotguns another thing absolutely an addiction mostly pumps started shoguning at the ages of about 9 or 10
First love model 12’s ones I still own
1940’s pigeon trap B carved wood standard stock won many shoot off’’s with this one
1959 20ga deluxe field gorgeous gun
1940’s 16ga skeet grade 2 bbl set matching serial no, solid rib full & mod
Y series skeet gun
Trap grade solid rib duck gun
A few other field grade guns
Remington 31 TC trap
Remington 31 skeet
31 20ga field
31 16 ga field
Win model 50 20 ga 2bbl set full @ mod
Win super 1 skeet gun
Win super x1 field
A few higher grade wingmasters 12’s and 20’s
Ithaca 37 20ga a couple of versions
Parker 12 ga 1 1/2 frame I shoot this gun in the field today redone by Chris dawg and Oscar cobb beautiful gun
16 ga Parker both are vhe grades
Remington 3200 compation grade doubles gun
Most of these guns were acquired between 1975 and 2000 so for those of you that know values didn’t pay today’s prices.
There a few others but this is the core . Many others have come and gone .
In fact some of them one would say I stole just paid what people were asking 425$ for a pigeon grade model 12 bought in 1986 . Ok no more exsamples
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You have one wicked collection Struff55. All of which I love and think I could find a home for here :)
Cheers
 
Nothing wrong with a 16 bore auto loader. My list: Remington 1100, 11-48 and Sportsman 58. All work well for me. I would like a Browning Auto 5 Sweet 16 someday but it has to be a Belgian gun. I had a Japanese Auto 5 that was coarse compared to the gun built on the continent.

Darryl
 
madtrapper143 said:
Nothing wrong with a 16 bore auto loader. My list: Remington 1100, 11-48 and Sportsman 58. All work well for me. I would like a Browning Auto 5 Sweet 16 someday but it has to be a Belgian gun. I had a Japanese Auto 5 that was coarse compared to the gun built on the continent.

Darryl
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Yep you have a nice 1100 16ga :) mod choke also if I recall
Cheers
 
The Remington Model 10 along with the 29 is a fascinating shotgun just for the amount of machining and the elaborate and overly complicated method of getting the shell from the tube to the chamber. It would cost big money to make one of these guns today even with modern CNC processes.
 
Yes some sweet guns like I mentioned all bought long before the high prices also all came from Saskatchewan the 31 trap and skeet guns was just. Blind luck Saskatoon gun show 95 ish everyone walked by them they stopped me in my tracks amazing wood . Standard trap stock I shoot it quite well I can’t shoot Monte Carlo stocks interesting thing on the trap gun the bore is .735
 
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