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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.
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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
"Sometimes too much to drink is not enough" Mark Twain
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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. 
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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.
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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
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C'mon, Bobby. It's got to be your favourite. Regards, King
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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
Sam Ogle
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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.
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Cross Brothers 12 Bore underlever.
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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.
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