What's everyone's go to shot gun for birds. Gtohunter had a post like this in the big game section.
Mine is a stoeger p-350 pump action. Use it for geese, turkey, and shooting clays. I did just pick up the new stoeger m3000 for the upcoming waterfowl season. I wanted a semi auto. The pump will become my back up.
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Remington 700 sps varmit with Leupold vx-3 6.5-20 adj objective HS Precision stock and timney trigger
It's okay Jon, honest. Considering all the pigeons both those O/U's have grounded, their close cousin the dove just counts as desert. I shoot a feed lot near here that is absoutely loaded with as estimated 2 MILLION starlings (really), and thousands of pigeons that scavange the grain. We usually take a full case of shells for each gun, and within three hours, we're out of ammo and it's back to the truck. It's the hottest wing shooting I've ever experienced. Those varmint-birds are like shooting ME-109's.
An O/U choked Mod and IC is perfect for early shooting, but later when the birds smarten up a tad, we choke our guns to Full & Modified. Great fun, wicked on the shoulder though.
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Rick in Oregon
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Oregon, East of the Cascades - Where Common Sense Still Prevails
Now them are some really great and interesting photos!
My go to shotgun has been a Remington model 1100, in 12 ga for at least 40 years. I started hunting with a 410, OU, Savage with 22 top barrel and 410 under it. Then a Remington 870 in 20ga. The 870 is still my most favorite shotgun, but because of the loads I reload, the recoil is too punishing. The 1100, being a gas operated gun and being heavier, takes up a lot of the recoil.
NRA Benefactor Life member HOWA 1500 Varmint 204 Ruger, Bull Barrel, Hogue Overmold Stock, Leupold VXII 6-18x40mm AO LRV Custom Reticle Timney Trigger
Cooper Mdl 21 20VarTargW/Leupold VXIII, 6-20x40AO Varmint Hunter reticle.
I've got an old 20ga side-by-side I got for my 12th birthday that has killed a mess of quail, doves, squirrels, rabbits and deer. It's light and easy to carry. Also, have an early model Remington 1100 with a Cutts Compensator with about six interchangable tubes. neither of these pieces sees steel shot though.
Mossberg 930 most reliable gun I have hunted with it eats evry thing I feed it. we do alot of duck and geese hunting here in Virginia and my buddies have shotguns worth 3 times what i paid for my Mossberg and after they shoot it they get one its a great dove gun spits out dove loads like no other semi-auto I have shot