I would like to pick your minds a little bit. I am really a pistol guy, but love all guns equally although shotguns interest me the least. I do not know why thats just how it is. Please state your favorite 12gauge shotgun make and model and why you like it so much. Owners only, so if you haven't owned it, it doesn't count.
My favorite shotgun I have owned was a Winchester model 12 I had from about 10years old to about 16 years old. My dad got it for me as a gift one year and me and him shot clay pigeons with it and I rabbit hunted with it a few times. Was made in 1961 in very good shape, and had about a 28" barrel with a polychoke. It is my favorite shotgun because of the feel while shouldered, the quality of everything, the light weight, and the beautiful blue finish. Also loved the corncob pump handle.
That shotgun turned me into a Winchester shotgun guy, after that I had a model 1200 12ga, which had to this day the slickest and quickest pump action I have ever handled. I could shoot 4 shots in 1 second with target loads. Before that I had a REM 870 express Magnum , didn't really like it, heavy and cumbersome, didn't seem as well made. Didn't like the finish. After the 1200 I had a 1300 made in 2006, picked it up at a gunshop brand new came with rifled barrel. Used that shotgun to kill a doe. Extremely well made I liked that gun very much. Called it my dinosaur rifle. Now my only shotgun is a Browning auto 5 12ga made in 1954, 26" barrel improved cylinder. Haven't shot it yet but I can't wait. Will use it for everything. Hopefully the IC choke holds decent patterns as I want to do alot of clag pigeon shooting. Will also hunt deer with it
My favorite shotgun I have owned was a Winchester model 12 I had from about 10years old to about 16 years old. My dad got it for me as a gift one year and me and him shot clay pigeons with it and I rabbit hunted with it a few times. Was made in 1961 in very good shape, and had about a 28" barrel with a polychoke. It is my favorite shotgun because of the feel while shouldered, the quality of everything, the light weight, and the beautiful blue finish. Also loved the corncob pump handle.
That shotgun turned me into a Winchester shotgun guy, after that I had a model 1200 12ga, which had to this day the slickest and quickest pump action I have ever handled. I could shoot 4 shots in 1 second with target loads. Before that I had a REM 870 express Magnum , didn't really like it, heavy and cumbersome, didn't seem as well made. Didn't like the finish. After the 1200 I had a 1300 made in 2006, picked it up at a gunshop brand new came with rifled barrel. Used that shotgun to kill a doe. Extremely well made I liked that gun very much. Called it my dinosaur rifle. Now my only shotgun is a Browning auto 5 12ga made in 1954, 26" barrel improved cylinder. Haven't shot it yet but I can't wait. Will use it for everything. Hopefully the IC choke holds decent patterns as I want to do alot of clag pigeon shooting. Will also hunt deer with it