It's hard because I like different guns for different types of shooting. But, I hunt mostly upland birds and my favorite is a gun I bought with bad barrels and a short stock many years ago in London. It is a Hollis Bentley and Playfair 12 bore, weighing about 6 1/2 pounds. I had John Foster sleeve the barrels at 28" and put on a wood stock extension. Sometimes, when I thought I had missed when I was pulling the trigger, the bird falls anyway. Choked .008 and .018. It is also a pretty gun and I just enjoy the art of it.