Who is Using a 28 Gauge, This 2025-26 Hunting Season

[AlbertaJohn]

There are so many good stories here. A small-bore shotgun is on "the list" for sometime in the future, maybe it'll have to be sooner rather than later...

Forget the 410 and the 20g and get a 28g, you won't be disappointed.

 

[28 gauge 2]

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Nice bunch of guns.Any of them 28 gauge?

 

[Max Owner]

Forget the 410 and the 20g and get a 28g, you won't be disappointed.

Bah humbug!!!

Just bought a 410 as I didn’t have one. Already have a 28 gauge in a Browning BPS. Intended for skeet.

But because of you buggers, now I hafta get a 28 in an over/under for skeet.

But not gonna tell you people that.

 

[28 gauge 2]

Forget the 410 and the 20g and get a 28g, you won't be disappointed.

Sounds like the good advice to me.

 

[28 gauge 2]

Bah humbug!!!

Just bought a 410 as I didn’t have one. Already have a 28 gauge in a Browning BPS. Intended for skeet.

But because of you buggers, now I hafta get a 28 in an over/under for skeet.

But not gonna tell you people that.

Are you trying to say ,we are a bad influence on you Max?

 

[28 gauge 2]

There are so many good stories here. A small-bore shotgun is on "the list" for sometime in the future, maybe it'll have to be sooner rather than later...

Be careful,after you get that first 28 gauge,it is quite easy to become an addict.

 

[28 gauge 2]

Uut this evening and bagged another rabbit with the 28 gauge Winchester Model 370.

 

[Max Owner]

Are you trying to say ,we are a bad influence on you Max?

Mehbe….

 

[Melvin]

Nice bunch of guns.Any of them 28 gauge?

All of them. 2x28 savage model 220 hammerless from 1939-40. One model 220a from 1954+. One Stevens 94c late 50s. One Cooey 84 pre Winchester crapola! The oldest 220 28 gauge is deadly on anything from Huns up to pheasant with Winchester one ounce 7.5s and 6s if I do my job. All of them I have restored/upgraded except the Stevens. Some of those old single shots have very nice wood if you treat it nicely.

 

[28 gauge 2]

All of them. 2x28 savage model 220 hammerless from 1939-40. One model 220a from 1954+. One Stevens 94c late 50s. One Cooey 84 pre Winchester crapola! The oldest 220 28 gauge is deadly on anything from Huns up to pheasant with Winchester one ounce 7.5s and 6s if I do my job. All of them I have restored/upgraded except the Stevens. Some of those old single shots have very nice wood if you treat it nicely.

That's great, that they are all 28 gauge guns.In the past I had a near mint Savage Model 220 28 gauge.Beautiful little gun.One of the ones I should of kept. I too have had good results with the 1 ounce Winchester loads.

Nice collection.Did it take you long to put it together?

 

[Melvin]

That's great, that they are all 28 gauge guns.In the past I had a near mint Savage Model 220 28 gauge.Beautiful little gun.One of the ones I should of kept. I too have had good results with the 1 ounce Winchester loads.

Nice collection.Did it take you long to put it together?

Over about eight years. My second Utica 220 I got recently. I have many more in 20 gauge, 16 and one 12 guage and .410. I also shoot an AYA no. 4 and a not common B. Rizzini round action with double triggers and 29 inch barrels.

 

[beej3000]

Be careful,after you get that first 28 gauge,it is quite easy to become an addict.

HA HA yes, I know how this works. It's tempting to buy everything and everyone here is an enabler!

I keep in mind this advice from a friend: "There are only wrong choices." No matter what you buy, you'll likely find a need/desire for something just slightly different. Or it doesn't do what you hoped it would. Or you don't use it as much as you should. Or ... anyways, you get the point.

I'm being overly patient and careful with my purchases, and if I'm a good boy I'll be able to get myself a small bore shotgun for my birthday.