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Like most - I find this hard to give a simple answer:

Good weather pheasant: Fox a-grade 12 30" mod/x-full
Bad weather pheasant: SKB 100 12 26" choke tubes
Good weather grouse: Ithaca Gr-3 12 30" sk/sk
Bad weather grouse: SKB 100 12
Good weather woodcock: Remington 1889 12 30" mod/full
Bad weather woodcock: SKB 100 12
Turkey: American Arms Turkey Special 26" 12 full/fuller(tubes)
Goose: AYA 10 32" F/F
Puddle ducks: SKB 100 12
Ducks over decoys: Parker VH 12 30"
Squirrels and doves: Arizaga .410 28"
Crows: Hopkins and Allen 8 gauge 36" choked (?)yep-it's F-U-N!

I guess I don't have a favorite. I use most of my doubles in the field throughout the year and the one's I don't take to the woods -shoot at least a couple of rounds of trap. If I don't use them, my wife might try an make me sell them.

Easy. Nothing too exciting , but my 20 ga. Parker repro comes to life whenever I pick it up. My favorite by far. Right now......
Rick

My 2 favourite are both by J Blanch and Son (those who know my preoccupations will not be surprised!).
My hammergun is a 12b with 28" Whitworth steel barrels, 1/4 & 1/2 chokes and sadly a bit of a plank for a stock.

The other is the gun I inherited from my father (the one which got the whole Blanch thing started!), a backaction 12b with original Damascus barrels, same chokes as above. Both with crisp engraving and lovely actions.

Choke tubes in the SKB 100, Ironman? My brother and nephew put theirs away because they were too tight for steel. Enough iron out there to accommodate tubes? I think the SKB 100 is most underrated double in the world.

I cannot pick out a favorite! 20 gauge GHE straight grip Parker is the gun i bagged the most birds with in the good old days! Bobby

C'mon, Bobby. It's got to be your favourite. Regards, King

I cannot help but notice that when choking is mentioned on a "Favorite;" that right barrels are Cylinder, Improved Cylinder, or Skeet. Not, of course 100%, but enough to realize that shooters who get their game ARE shooting open chokes, especially for that first shot. A double shooter I greatly respect says "Zero and Ten."
Butchery,? or something else? Hmmmmm.
Sam Ogle, Lincoln, Nebraska

Ive a pair of merkel 147 20ga,sst and dt-diffrent bbl lengths and grades,they rank at the top as far as sxs clay shooting goes.
Then,a beretta 401 stella 12b hammer,and a 32" damascus husqvarna jones UL 12b hammer for the vintage retro fun.
And for the money,a beretta 687 sporting 3bbl set,and a merkel 200et trap.
Finally,.410 smallbore fun with winchester 42 cutts,and dehaan s2 sxs.

PS each is a tool.not like a hammer but more like a screwdriver.
one hammer can get away with doing the same thing over and over again,but not so much with a screwdriver.

Cross Brothers 12 Bore underlever.

20 ga GH Parker on O frame made in 1902. Originally had 26" damascus barrels but was returned to Parker in the late '20's for fluid steel 26" barrels. It is a dream to shoot and carry.