Whats your favorite shotgun for upland hunting?

Hard to pick one from the herd. But the most deadly one I have is an old Ithaca SKB model 900 (recoil operated) 25" vent rib (cut) cylinder bore. 12 gauge of course. Easy to carry and patterns anything from #6 to #8 very well with wide even coverage.

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Winchester XTR Featherweight O/U 12g 26" with std. invector tubes.
Weatherby Element Cdn. Upland semi 20g 26" with std. invector tubes.
Both are lightweight and easy to carry.
 
While my life has yet to be threatened by a upland game bird and if a firearm absolutely must work under field conditions pass me a browning of some sort in a 20ga.
 
JIMMY 808 said:
While my life has yet to be threatened by a upland game bird and if a firearm absolutely must work under field conditions pass me a browning of some sort in a 20ga.
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One of the best hunting spots I ever seen for ruffed grouse was also literally teaming with black bears. Surprizingly close to Edmonton.
There are moments when the bigger gauges can deliver to you a warm & fuzzy sense of personal security.
Magnified if you hunt alone.
 
My V Bernadelli Italia hammer gun in 12ga .Don t even have to shoot it just carrying it around is a joy

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My go to is a Winchester 101 20 ga, 26" bbls and IC/Mod chokes. Picked up a beauty Beretta 28 ga O/U, but the stock is a touch long for me.
 
If I want to straight up kill birds, my go-to is my 16ga Winchester model 12 over my drahthaar. There won’t be pretty points, and gentlemanly choices of right or left barrel, but birds will be in the air and spent shells flying!
 
For years and years of rough and tumble trudging on Eastern Ontario farmland that was 'returning to nature', rain or shine and often in rain and sleet, with the occasional scramble up a rough cliff, etc, my upland gun of choice was a Browning SBS, English stock, 26' barrels fixed choked IC and M. It was my first decent shotgun and having toted the heavy-ish old gal around and around for decades with lots of success on sometimes plentiful, sometimes scarce but always challenging heavily chased and wary ruffed grouse, I guess I have to say it's my favourite.
 
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For pheasant, huns and sharptails in open country I normally carry my Browning Citori white lightning 16 ga, 28" with IC/Mod chokes screwed in. Load an ounce of 6's

On occasions when I need a close cover ruffed or spruce grouse gun I carry a Browning Superposed lightning, (round knob, long tang) 20 ga. also IC/M which is a bit tight for the ranges involved. Load 7/8 of 7-1/2's

For snipe I prefer a 12 ga. with a target load of an ounce of steel 7's. That's when I take the Brno ZP49 side by side.

but I just purchased an AYA sidelock model 53, 12 ga. 28" IC/IM. Had the stock fitted, and although it hasn't seen a bird yet it breaks clays very well. Might become the new favourite. I suppose could call it the ptarmigan gun.
 
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Jack Robinson said:
Remington model 31 pump 16 ga. or Browning Superposed 20 ga.
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Well, I seriously can't fault those choices and gauges! Smooth and classy.

As for me, I'm long enough in years now that the hunt is more about the pleasure than the meat tally, and I turn to a 1864-vintage 'London Best' Charles Lancaster breech-loader in 12, with nitro-proofed damascus barrels.

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And if I'm going to be carrying it all day, my go-to is a short-chambered 16 single-shot conversion from muzzle-loading to centrefire, by Thomas Seymour of London (1841-1844). With a nitro-proofed twist barrel, it weighs less than 5 pounds.

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