Home Forums Birds & Dogs Upland Game Upland bird hunters....what's your gun of choice?

Awesome!!

The 220 Savage got passed on to my grandson.




And the dogs are happy about that!

Sure thing........

Grouse/Timberdoodles Up North

Vincenzio Bernardelli Roma 4 20 GA C/M

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Out West

BUL 12 /w various choke tubes depending....

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Nice photos !! Happy dogs make the day seem brighter!!
Thanks for the photos..

Thanks WCH.

It was interesting to me that out of this tiny sample of bird hunters, three of us are shooting Vincenzio Bernardelli S/S's. V. Bernardelli made arms for over 250 years in Gardone, Italy but, sadly went out of business 15-20 years ago. There are other mfgs with the name "Bernardelli" still active, but the V.Bernies were the "pick of the litter" in terms of quality. They are not well known, and somewhat under appreciated.

I have been looking for a V. Bernie S/S 16 Ga for a long time. So if anyone knows of one, pls give me a heads up.

NB

A Beretta 686 Sporting in a 20 gauge with 29 1/2 barrels with a custom finished and fitted stock is my go to gun. An older pre-war 16 gauge Ithaca 37 is backup gun on rainy days.

After that there are too many others vying to a day afield.

Here's the B-gun:

I'm going to take out my Model 21 - it hasn't been afield in a few years.

Word

12 gauge a400 extreme for me.

I usually use a Browning Citori white lightning 16 ga 28"



I like its versatility on mixed bag hunts like I normally do around home. That's also why I hunt with a versatile dog.


I also sometimes use my Merkel 16.

I was looking exceptionally good that day.



Travis

I don't believe that is you. That guy looks like a tourist. All the homies wear blue jeans.

I use a 1950's vintage Marlin Model 90 O/U in 16ga that was my first shotgun. I love the shotgun and can hunt with it all day long. Ammo sometimes hard to get but lately Cabelas has been stocking 16 ga pheasant loads down by me in Indy.

u b trippin'




Dave

CastnBlast - nice 16ga Browning shotgun and gun dog - what is the breed? Odessa

I use a CR Redhead 20 gauge for most everything, even the occasional brain lapse I have when I decide to hunt waterfowl. There isn't a legal upland bird species in Montana, Wyoming or Idaho that shotgun hasn't killed.










On occasion, I break out my old Win 1300 12 gauge, and will again here in a few weeks for Himalayan Snowcock.

Thanks! He is a Pudelpointer. A somewhat rare German Versatile breed.

Thank you; I started reading a bit about the Pudelpointer - very interesting breed.

Rates a BIG Two-Cool!

We hunted for many years with griffons and took many mixed bags. I was pleased to see a couple of Wilson's snipe in one bag and your sweet 16ga shotguns.

My mom's neighbor has the twin to your dog.