3 Shotguns - I must have ............
1. Most Versatile.....Browning Citori XS Skeet model, with adj parallel comb - 30" barrels in a 12ga....( live birds, skeet, sporting clays, 5 stand ...) it does it all real well. I can load it up to 1 1/8 oz loads .../ and I can load 12ga shells down to 7/8 oz like a typical 20ga shell...or even 3/4 oz like a typical 28ga shell...../ I can shoot slugs or "OO" in it for defense if I had to.....
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That's really all I would need, is just one gun ( but if any of you guys tell my wife....you'll be risking bodily harm !!! ) .....
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But since you'll let me have 3 guns.....
2. For Trap specifically ......Browning Citori XT Trap, 12ga, adj comb, 32" barrels with a GraCoil recoil suppression system in it.....
3. and I know they're ugly ....but I'd keep my Benelli SuperSport 30" barrel, semi-auto in a 12ga.....just because !! I could take the plug out of it ...use it for defense...another good all around gun - does everything pretty well.
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But re-reading the post, you said "must have's" ....not "you can only have 3 shotguns"....