Home Forums Birds & Dogs Upland Game Your ideal wild quail shotgun ???

I cannot imagine anyone getting five gambels or scaled quail but mearns are slow flyers. Often they will fly in the same direction very close to one another. I had heard of another guy getting five mearns on the rise so if it presented itself I was going to try. I still remember where it was. In Gardner canyon, East side of the Santa Rita Mts, just under the ranch at the Y in the road. Thor and Abbey were the dogs.

Don't want to do it again. It was a pita to find them even with two dogs. These days I am happy with a double. Best year of mearns hunting was over a decade ago. Found four coveys got a double on each covey rise and was done in 65 minutes. Took me longer to drive home!

Here in S. Georgia when I was growing up, it would be a Remington Sportsman 58, 16ga. Imp. Cyl. or Winchester Model 12, 20 gauge Imp. Cyl.- Remington Extra Long Range 7.5 shot.

Since I only own 2 shotguns, out of 3 safes full of rifles, my ideal quail gun would be the Beretta AL-2 20ga i/c

Current is a 12ga SxS. 28” bbls imp/mod. 1oz loads of 6 or 7 1/2’s.
Ideal? Man….drop it down to a 20ga and launch the same payload. I like the 28”bbls. Have another sxs in 16 with 26” bbls and I seem to do better with the 28”er. Just swings a bit better.
A 28ga o/u would be fun to play with.

I’m stoked to hit a double.
Quintuple? Lol. Not sure reloading, twice, is gonna happen. The quail would have to go into a holding pattern😂

I hunted bobs and scaled for years. I used a Ruger Red Label o/u 28 ga. or a Ithaca SKB 20 ga. sxs. The Ruger had screw in chokes and I usually went with ic and im in the 28" barrels. The Ithaca was bored by a gunsmith to Sk 1 and Sk 2. Both worked well on quail.
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