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Shouldn't this forum have a picture thread ???

Let's see 'em !!!!

Dickinson Estate 16

Wow, can't come close to topping that. How do you like that Dickinson? Mine is a run of the mill Citori Lightning.

Liking the Dickinson, too !!! 👍👍

Just to clarify........ I didn't make the OP to JUST showcase beautiful or expensive guns. If it's 16 gauge, a picture of it belongs here !!! 😉

Not expensive. Turkish made Akus, sold by cablas when I got this one. Think i played $1300 because of some scratches. Refinished the stock.
As far as liking it? My favorite shotgun, even though the two Berettas might be better overall, this one just fits my eye. Shoot it well too.

Yoder, what are you doing sticking your head out of the .223AI thread? You should be ashamed of yourself...

Anyhoo about those 16 gauges:

Hey..................... I'm more than just a pretty face in the basement. I surfaced to troll you (and others) into posting up some 16 gauge porn. We're off to a slow..............yet quality, start. GORGEOUS scenery behind that classic 16 !!!!

Crappy pic of my early 50s 37.


Bottom pic is my unmarked German 16. Proofed in 1919



Works on wild roosters too.



And wild quail

Too lazy an d stupid to post pics.
Browning A5 Sweet 16 2 barrel set
Citori 16 original first year 1987 long tang,
Fox A Grade 16
Parker VHE straight stocked 16
AYA 4/53 special order 29 inch barrel
Ithaca 37 Superlight 16

You want some 16 gauge Porn, I got some. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves.

The first is a pair of consecutively serial numbered Browning Citori Gran Lightning O/U's done up in their Custom Shop DG5 engraving pattern. The engraver was a retired Browning Custom Shop engraver that had both guns new in the box in his inventory. I was in the process of buying one when he told me that he actually had two and that even the upgraded wood pretty much matched. I kind of lost my mind and told him I'd take em both. Someday I'll put my sons initials in the gold ovals and give them to them as heirlooms to have and then hopefully pass down to their sons.

STUNNING is the only word that comes close !!!!!!!!

Those are breathtaking !!!!

Have seen several of Romac’s pieces here and elsewhere. The man knows and owns wonderful firearms. Just scratching the surface. Wait until his Foxes emerge from the den!

Mine's just an old Ithaca, nothing to look at, but it was a dear friends that's no longer with us. The checkering is worn smooth and needs recut, but it's otherwise in good shape. Points nice.

Love to see it !!!

I'm gonna get around to posting up a couple pics of mine. They ain't sexy. But the cool factor of "been there.........done that" guns is WAY up the chart !!!!

This is one of my 16 gauge LC Smith's. The first picture is with a few woodcock last season.

Wow! That’s a beauty!!!

Here is a pair of restored Fox Sterlingworths.

One on the left is a 16 , the other is a 20. This is a great pair to travel with. Both guns are a shade over 6 pounds and point like wands.

Again.............Very nice !!!!

Curious as to how much of a restoration was done and who did the work ??

Both guns have had the case coloring redone and were re-blued.

The 20 was done by Doug Turnbull and the 16 was from Connecticut Shotgun. I did not commission the work though, but that is what I was told. In the case of the 20 by the owner who had it done, and I did buy the 16 from Connecticut Shotgun but they had done it up for a customer who decided to sell it.

I sold off most of a 25 year collection of military surplus weapons to start to accumulate some nice hunting guns a while back and although I do regret it some times I get more use out of the shotguns.

This is an "as new" upgraded 16 gauge Fox Sterlingworth to XE quality.



This is an original 16 gauge Fox XE circa 1929.




I've hunted with both these guns and had a blast with them. Last year I connected with a grouse in Vermont on the Canadian border with the upgrade XE and the memory is burned in my brain as one of the sweetest crossing shots in the open that I've ever made.