If you are 70 or older, what shotguns are you regularly using and for what purpose?

LC Smith grade #2, 12ga chain pattern Damascus, and an early Browning designed 1911 Remington, 12ga self loader. The LC for upland and target..the 1911 for everything else.

Husqvarna 51 for waterfowl on some days a Manufrance Robust.



Upland a Bernardelli Elos 12ga at 5 lb 15 oz


Predators various combo guns and drillings.

No name drilling 16ga/16ga/9.3x72R I brought for a sxs shoot but did a favor for a rancher.


My goto drilling for preds is a Wilkes 16ga/16ga/6.5x58R


BRNO combo 12ga/5.6x52R(22 Sav. Highpower)

3 Parkers 16 gauges, Model 12….16 or 20 gauge, Ithaca 37..28 gauge, Winchester Model 59..12 gauge.

All interchangeable for Grouse, Pheasant, Woodcock.

Not being a competitor shooter, but pheasants exclusively, which entails 3-5 mi/day, plus thirty + years of elk hunting in the mountains made me shun heavy guns.

I have two Ben UL’s, a 20 and a 12. Also a Dickinson Plantation 16 ga. I’m down to these three and am questioning my need for the UL 12.

Because George 12's are still the easiest to find ammo for now. Mb

If you have to worry about finding ammo your not really serious about this sport.

Depends on how much you shoot.

Addition: People I know go through 10-15 thousand 12 gauge a year..normal times they buy 10-20 flats at a time. Now most of the places they normally buy from are limiting them to 2-3 flats when they have it. They are obviously serious shooters.

Also another example…I have 6 boxes of Estate 16 gauge no 6. More than enough for the season. Not my favorite and wanted some Golden Pheasant 5’s….with the current situation can’t find them. Didn’t realize it would be a problem.

My feelings exactly, my ammo inventory reflects that attitude. Next years dove loads are ready to be picked up before I hunt the last day of the season tomorrow.

Was that the question?

I gathered from your statement you were questioning the need for the 12 and I replied.

Mb

Oh, no I was questioning keeping a 12 lately because considering my upland experience is 100% pheasants, and in 55 years of it, I haven’t seriously ever perceived a difference between it and the 16, and actually, even the 20.

Especially with the higher quality of shot shells now. As to easier availability of the 12, I have enough of all three gauges to hunt the next eight years, may God be willing.

Ok I understand I think I'd have to hunt past a hundred to have to worry about more shells. You might say a "lifetime supply and the some". Buying what you want ,when you want, for the price you want has passed. So it pays to be well supplied. Good luck on your seasons. Mb

Oh MAN!


I thought someone had a way to jump start me in the mornings.

I've gone to a light gas auto 20ga for much of my bird hunting and a nice Franchi 48 12 ga when I need more umpf. I'm also using a nicely balanced Drual receiver KG Trumpf drilling as a bird gun and a deer gun sometimes. My venerable walnut/blue steel rifles and shotguns now stand behind my Kimber MTs in 257 Roberts and 325 WSM and my 20 auto and my well used Robust No. 4 16ga SXS. My three small safes and floor under a bed are crammed with some old friends I seldom get together with nowadays.

Give me 7 yrs and I’ll answer.

Nice guns all!

77. Trap, 1975 870TB. Skeet, 1100. Dove, Ithaca 100, 20 ga. Deer, Savage 220.
Also play with a Superposed Lightning, BT99 and a Beretta 686.

Will be 79 in April so make the cut - Winchester 101 for upland birds - bored skeet & skeet - 20 gauge.
For waterfowl - Rem model 870 12 gauge - modified - also used for turkey. First new gun I ever owned.
Bought it new in 1959 at local general store, he threw in a box of shells for $55. I was a sophomore in HS.
Have few others no longer hunted with,for sentimental reasons will never sell - daughter wants the
Parker 28 gauge that belonged to my grandfather. The son will get the Win model 21 20 gauge.
I still hunt all fall but the hills seem to be bit steeper than a few years ago.

Your Daughter is a smart Girl.

Reason for that is she is the best darn shot in the family - rifle or shotgun.
Son is the handgun shooter,but good with all.

I can't answer for a few more years either

Hi, I’m a septuagenarian. My name is George. And I bought another shotgun.

However, the USPS is here to help. My MO from IA sent to the seller in MA has not arrived yet. I sent it December 21, priority mail.

I suspect a good number of the Pony Express riders are either quarantining or are getting Build Back Better checks.

My present two primary shotguns are a Beretta 680 series 12 gauge frame with 20 gauge 30 inch barrels. The second is Remington 870 "left hand" 20 gauge which is a joy to carry. I had wanted a 870 lefty 20 gauge for years and finally found a unfired model about 8 years ago on "Trapshooters.com".

I've shot a few continental pheasant shoots where my ole' favorite Winchester Super-X model 1 as the preferred
scatter gun. While a heavy shotgun I carried one in the bird fields of Nebraska for 10 years, not many bird eluded the Super-X.

When feeling nostalgic I grab my Parker Bros 12 gauge #2 frame.....

I qualify…. And went past one per decade a good while ago.

My shotguns are mostly Remington 870 pumps. I also have two model 12s. Both 12 g. One Fox Sterlingworth 12, one Browning Crossover 12, one BPS 10 g.
My Rem. are 3 12 ga., 2 20s, and one 28. At 74 the old 870 field 12 ga is still my first pick. Second would be an 870 20 ga. I bought 2 of these just after 2000. First I got one for my first wife, Linda. But she was always forgetting her ammo, so I bought a second one for myself so we always had ammo. Later I picked up a 28 just because I liked it. Mostly used it for blue gr and sage gr.. I took it for roosters a couple times, but I have golden retrievers and shots tend to be longer than pointing breeds. So after Linda passed in 2006, I went back to my old 870 12.
I am considering picking up a 20 ga. o/u but haven't really put any effort into it.

too many to list.