What's Your Favorite Gauge

What's Your Favorite?

  • 10 gauge

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • 12 gauge

    Votes: 97 66.4%

  • 16 gauge

    Votes: 13 8.9%

  • 20 gauge

    Votes: 24 16.4%

  • 28 gauge

    Votes: 9 6.2%

  • .410 bore

    Votes: 10 6.8%

  • other/pistol shot etc.

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    146
The problem with this is you did not specify "fun" for what. Personally I enjoy the 410 for just about everything except waterfowl, don't hunt big game with a shotgun so have not need for big slugs.
The 410 is just plain fun to shoot. I was out this past weekend with buddies on a camping, shooting, and wheeling outing. I was the only one to get out and hunt and yes it was with my Safir T14 410 shotgun. The rest said they were tired of shooting. What a laugh, the 12's had beaten them up in just one day. The next morning only me and one other guy shot clays and I used my bolt action 410 for that.
 
I'm with Dave McC on this.

Except for the ancestral fixed breech .410, all of my guns are 12-ga. However a few have full tube sets. I enjoy skeet targets with the .410-bore; but, the 28-ga isn't as strict a taskmaster. Because of the reduced recoil and blast, many shooters prefer the 20-ga in 12-ga skeet events, and they are often rewarded with higher scores.
For longer distance targets, I'm 12-ga all the way.
 
12 gauge for me, and it's not even close. I can shoot high dramage 12 gauge loads all day long, and don't really understand its reputation as some fearsome beast. One of these days I might pick up a 10 gauge for turkey and geese, but aside from that I have little use for any other shotgun cartridge.
 
The closest thing I've ever found for a perfect gun (for me) in my 70 years is the Franchi 48 Black Magic in 20 gauge. Another retired cop introduced me to it and it has made my day many times.It weighs less than 6 lbs and fits me so well that I don't feel much recoil.

I started out with a 20, then a 12 , now back to a 20 gauge and well satisfied.
 
I hunt doves & shoot sporting clays. The 12 gauge with 7/8 oz. of shot works great,but the 28 gauge with 3/4 oz. of shot is just pure fun to shoot!
 
12 ga with a 3 1/2 magnum will reach out and kill water fowl and crows. And it will shoot light 9 shot just fine at the skeet range.
 
16 gauge was the queen of the upland and it would still be if it wasn't passed over in Skeet competition. A good 16 carries like a 20 and shoots like a 12, but modern shotshells have really made the 20 gauge just as good as a 16 or light 12.

It's still my favorite, but I really shoot my 12s much more often. Ammo is easier.
 
My pick is the 10. My use for a scattergun is at the home so I like a whomper if one is avaliable. I do have a smattering of other gauges and have considered becoming serious about upland birds just so I could justify a Red Label O/U in the 28. I handled one and it sure felt nice
 
.410

I say .410 for the fun factor. I just remember all those squirrel/rabbit hunts I did with the old Savage Stevens Model 94 single shot .410 guage. It used to belong to my dad when he was a kid. It's mine now and someday it will be passed on to my son when he is old enough.
 
I've always had a soft spot for the 20 gauge

My first gun was a Mossberg bolt action 20 my father gave me when I was nine.

I gave it to my son when he turned nine.
 
I just got a .410 handed down to me from my in laws.It is my first shotgun and first .410 also.I really like it,it is a single shot new england arms
 
I picked 12ga solely for the reason that it is the most versatile and prolific worldwide, and I have the most training with it. My wife has a 20ga. for defense and I have a 22/410 for small game and pure fun. I can honestly say I have no experience with the other gauges.
 
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