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you guys are making me want to get my Lefever out and burn up some shells!!

The 16 is my favorite bird gun. I have a Citori, a Sweet Sixteen {Jap} and a Winchester 24. I may have to have a 4th because we just got a couple of the CZ doubles into the shop and they are N-I-C-E! Hell, if I wasn't such a gun snob I'd even buy a H&R single shot with the black stocks/nickeled receiver in 16 to shoot squirrels with. I may get it anyway and just not tell anybody....

Oh yea! I've got two drillings, a Rempt SxS and a Rempt O/U, and an Ithaca NID grade 1, all in 16 gauge.

"I may get it anyway and just not tell anybody...."


<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> That's the spirit!!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I only have a winchester mdl 37 16 ga . I got it from some dude in AK. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I have one of them (Winchester 37) too and a Savage 220B. I also had a 50's or 60's vintage 870.

I have a Parker VH-16 gauge of my fathers and his hunting partners Lefever Nitro Special in 16 gauge. Both guns work great and get a lot of use on the cottontails.

good choice for rabbit - critters. Are we 16 gauge fans going to turn out like the MacIntosh computer users, a diehard 10% of shooters? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I have several Ithaca model 37 16's. Favorite gauge and gun for upland. I'm partial to the older 37's with the "ringtail" or "corn cob" forends. Others are always amazed at the "performance" compared with their 12 gauges. Of course that probably has at least as much to do with the number of shells I put through them.

Matthew

I'll probably inherit the father-in-law's French SxS 16. His father brought it back from WWII.

The first shotgun I ever used and still my favorite, my Dads Remington M31.

Restored Fox Sterlingworth with English stock.

I'll join you in your deviant behavior this fall. I picked up two this year,a Sweet 16 28" VR modified from the 50's and a Winchester 1200 with improved cylinder and modified barrels. I noticed that Polywad and Eley sell some interesting shells if they are hard to find locally. http://www.polywad-shotgun-shells.com/16%2Dgauge%2Dshotshells/
http://www.eleyshotshells.com/merchant2/...gory_Code=16ETG

I have a newer Rem. 870 express that gets used for ptarmigan and grouse. Seems to be just the ticket.

i have two. an ithaca 37 i got for my 14th birthday a real long time ago. my favorite though is a two barrel lc smith set i restored the metal and restocked. both sets of barrel are 26 inches. choked imp mod and cyl and full and mod.

A Ithaca M37, Lefever Nitro Special, and a Philly Fox
A Grade that was a gift from a friend who introduced
me to doubles and the 16. I grew up hunting grouse
with a single shot 12ga, so when I got the Beretta
a390 I thought it was the greatest thing in the world.
Havent used a 12 since I got my first 16. There is nothing
like a walk in the fall woods with a slim 16 over your arm.

My L.C. Smith was a real joy.

You are not alone-- make that A-5's in general! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

Amen, just make sure the parents are ok with it......

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