Who Else is Using a 28 Gauge for Hunting

[3macs1]

Only one or two,Mac?You are not tring to pull my leg are you?

Hey as you know it was a good year for me and the 28ga. Maybe able to move up with you serious players soon I hope. Have to be getting close to meeting the requirements. Sure glad I listened to you and picked up the 37 and al48 like you said sweet sweet guns.

 

[3macs1]

Have not seen one of the Savage 220 shotguns in 28 gauge.Must be a nice little shotgun.What will you use it for?

That makes two of us. Love to see a pic

 

[28 gauge]

Hey as you know it was a good year for me and the 28ga. Maybe able to move up with you serious players soon I hope. Have to be getting close to meeting the requirements. Sure glad I listened to you and picked up the 37 and al48 like you said sweet sweet guns.

I would say you meet the requirements now,Mac.Yes, the 28 gauge Ithaca Model 37 and Franchi 48AL are surely two great 28 gauge shotguns.

 

[28 gauge]

I grew up hauling my mothers remington model 812 around. Great cartridge. Great little gun. It's not in great shape anymore and though i'll never sell it, it doesn't get much use. I'd like to find another one or even a sxs in 28 sometime in the future. For now i'm stuck with my 16 gauge wingmaster. It does the job just fine but there is something about a nice light 28 gauge that i love.

In the past I had a Remington Model 812 in 28 gauge.Nice little shotguns.I fully understand when you say,"There is something about a nice light 28 gauge that I love."

 

[c-fbmi]

I picked up a gorgeous little LC Smith in 28 ga last year but haven't even fired it yet. Interesting reading all you shooters who do use one, pretty much confirms what I thought...........great grouse gun. My #2 son has a .410 but it is lacking I find and figured the 28 would be about perfect.
I've been able to find ammo pretty much anywhere, and have stocked up on about 10 boxes or so of Win. Hoping to give it a wringing out this summer and fall on some clays and then feathers, probably ptarmigan and some spruce.

 

[mbogo3]

Also picked up 1000 claybuster /win clone wads and a used Mec 600 press...........Harold

 

[3macs1]

I picked up a gorgeous little LC Smith in 28 ga last year but haven't even fired it yet. Interesting reading all you shooters who do use one, pretty much confirms what I thought...........great grouse gun. My #2 son has a .410 but it is lacking I find and figured the 28 would be about perfect.
I've been able to find ammo pretty much anywhere, and have stocked up on about 10 boxes or so of Win. Hoping to give it a wringing out this summer and fall on some clays and then feathers, probably ptarmigan and some spruce.

What a sweet gun. Have you done some research on it.?? It is really not a LC Smith but a Marlin tagged LC Smith and some will tell you just a cheap copy which proved after production to be ao far from the truth it is not even funny. It is very desirable to 28 ga collectors and I didnot think any came to canada since I could not find one when I looked in early 2008. Make sure your son takes real good care of it since I have seen the price go up on them to where used is now selling for what new did. They stopped making them in early 2009.
I have some back ground on it on file and will post if you don't have it. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Mount Sweetness]

looks like a Stevens to me...?

 

[FLHTCUI]

There is a cool cat with a hat that shoots lil guns on a regular basis and does pretty good to from his pictures .
Takes some skill to shoot these well from what i hear and they do make them pretty as well.
Rob

 

[3macs1]

looks like a Stevens to me...?

I can see why you would say that. I am 99% sure this one is a Marlin but have been wrong before . Check the stock details. lock up etc and reciever in his pics vs the stevens 612 below. Also the quality whcih we cannot see in pics is not even in the same ball park. take care

 

[28 gauge]

I picked up a gorgeous little LC Smith in 28 ga last year but haven't even fired it yet. Interesting reading all you shooters who do use one, pretty much confirms what I thought...........great grouse gun. My #2 son has a .410 but it is lacking I find and figured the 28 would be about perfect.
I've been able to find ammo pretty much anywhere, and have stocked up on about 10 boxes or so of Win. Hoping to give it a wringing out this summer and fall on some clays and then feathers, probably ptarmigan and some spruce.

These are nice 28 gauge shotguns.There was a fellow who used to post on the 28 Gauge Society Site who has one and is most pleased with it.The shotguns were made in Italy.Like Mac ,I to thought about getting one back in the day.

In 2007 the L C Smith Model LC28-DB 28 gauge SXS was honored with Field and Stream's ,"Best of the Best" in the shotgun category.

 

[c-fbmi]

Yes it is the Marlin branded LC Smith, I saw it on Epps website and couldn't resist. When I got my hands on it I was very impressed, a very well made little gun with a full LOP for an adult man. Very nicely done sidelock and frame size to match the gauge. 26" bbls with changeable chokes. Condition is like new without a single mark or marr.......................Now all I have to do is shoot it!!

It most certainly is not a Savage/Stevens offering!!!

 

[28 gauge]

Back in the mid 1980's I used a .410 for two seasons on partridge and rabbits.Like you I found it wanting and went back to the 28 gauge,c-fbmi.What size shot and load weight do you plan on using for the clays and feathers you plan on using the shotgun for?

 

[c-fbmi]

Back in the mid 1980's I used a .410 for two seasons on partridge and rabbits.Like you I found it wanting and went back to the 28 gauge,c-fbmi.What size shot and load weight do you plan on using for the clays and feathers you plan on using the shotgun for?

Selection is limited but probably 7 1/2 on clays and 6s on feathers, these are what I have on hand now. Not sure of the load weight and I'm down here for the winter and my shells are in Whitehorse.............7/8 ounce comes to memory though.

 

[28 gauge]

Selection is limited but probably 7 1/2 on clays and 6s on feathers, these are what I have on hand now. Not sure of the load weight and I'm down here for the winter and my shells are in Whitehorse.............7/8 ounce comes to memory though.

In the more open chokes I use 7 1/2 a fair bit but perfer number 6 for the tighter chokes when hunting.I find the one ounce 28 gauge load patterns well in all the shotguns I have patterened with it.I find it most useful in the more open chokes, there it helps to sweeten the pattern.

Have used the 7/8 ounce 28 gauge loads a little.Nice load.Here of late I have been using 28 gauge Challenger shells with 3/4 ounces of number 6 shot in my modified choked 28 gauges when hunting.When the season opens again next fall I believe I will use the 28 gauge 7/8 ounce load a bit more to give it a good going over.

 

[3macs1]

These are nice 28 gauge shotguns.There was a fellow who used to post on the 28 Gauge Society Site who has one and is most pleased with it.The shotguns were made in Italy.Like Mac ,I to thought about getting one back in the day.

In 2007 the L C Smith Model LC28-DB 28 gauge SXS was honored with Field and Stream's ,"Best of the Best" in the shotgun category.

I actually saved his post from that site if it is the same guy.This guy was a lc smith collector I tried at the time to find one in canada and could not so moved on. Sweet gun not even in the same ball park as a stevens take care

Hunter Arms L.C. Smith however would not produce the 28 Guage for the general public. Recently the Marlin Gun Company owner of the old Hunter Arms L.C. Smith gun company contracted an old Spanish gun maker, Zabala Hermanos to make both a modern 28 Guage and .410 L.C. Smith Double Gun.
I had my doubts about just how this was going to be accomplished.
However Marlin provided the origial Hunter Arms engineering design
for the 28 Guage and demanded high quality ordance metals and
high grade Spanish and French Walnut Wood. Engraving is modern Spanish to keep the cost where the Marlin Co needed. In 2007 Production of both the 28 Guage and .410 L.C. Smith started, some of the guns were completed and shipped to the USA. The Spanish Government then decided to enact an export tax on these and other weapons, being shipped to the USA, driving up the cost to where Marlin discontinued the contract. Recently I was very lucky to have been able to purchase one of these new Spanish made 28 Guage L.C. Smith double guns, although these guns were not reproductions, the Zabala gun makers have done a nice job of producing a new modern 28 Guage, L.C. Smith double gun. Unfortunately the .410 L.C. Smith ended production in 2009 and the 28 Guage L.C. Smith ended even before that, again few in number, making it very hard to purchase a 28 Guage L.C. Smith.
I do believe this new 28 guage L.C. Smith double gun will be a good addition to my Elsie collection.
I will post some additional pictures when the new Elsie arrives.
Our new L.C. Smith 28 Guage Double Gun
26" Chromed BBLs, French Walnut POW Butt Stock with Fleur-De-Lis Checkering,
Semi-Beavertail Fore-End, Spanish style engraving with Pheasant & Grouse on oppsite Side Lock Plates, Woodcock on underside of Breech, all in Gold, with light scroll engraving surrounding each game bird, Brass Sight Bead and Gold SST, with Case Colored Receiver and Side Locks Plates

 

[dogone]

I shoot an o/u 24 ga. ( right 24) also a 12, that way leads are always half or twice the other gauge. Lots of ammo available from Fiocchi. Nice light gun use mostly on blackbirds.

 

[28 gauge]

The newer 12 and 20 gauge Marlin LC Smith SXS shotguns were made in Italy while the 28 gauge and .410 shotguns were made I spain.I had thought they were all manufactured in Italy.Interesting that the different gauges were made in different countries.

 

[28 gauge]

I love my 28s... I use the CZ partridge mostly... didn't get out for grouse as much as I'd hoped, but got to use it on ducks this year with decent results.

BGB ,did you see the post on the 28 Gauge Society Site about the fellow using a 28 gauge CZ for quail out in Washington State in the US.He is having a lot of success and really loves his 28 gauge CZ.

 

[3macs1]

BGB ,did you see the post on the 28 Gauge Society Site about the fellow using a 28 gauge CZ for quail out in Washington State in the US.He is having a lot of success and really loves his 28 gauge CZ.

Not to butt in but the 28ga is perfect for quail I would shoot a couple hundred a year when I raised them and was training the britts.
Also used my 1100 28ga for doves at the BIL's when I would visit in the US.Lets just say you better be a good shot for that one. take care
I sure miss the quail especially in the spring when the males would be calling nothing nicer to hear.All I have left is a few real bad pics.