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W.&C. Scott Ltd./"Orvis Best" (1980-82?) box lock, 12 bore, 2-3/4", 26" IC&M, tasteful beavertail, Prince of Wales, Non selective single trigger, blue receiver, nice wood. 6-1/4 lbs. The quintessential quail gun, I use it for all my bird shooting - Pheasant, Quail and Dove - with 1oz. loads.
I have other doubles worth more, but this one does it all for me. I can shoot it!
Mike

w.c. scott sxs 12guage box lock international 1898 ejector light and points itself. found it in original leather trunk missing stock and forend. a diamond in the rough.

My Dad's 1958 Antonio Zoli 16ga. SXS. It was not used for more than 30 years. Being used by me now, on a regular basis.

Thanks Dad.

I have too many doubles, none of which I shoot worth remarking, probably because I haven't had the heart or wherewithall for the necessary "butchery" (mods). I'm partial to stacked barrels(sort of a double on edge) and particularly like my old twin-single Super and would like my Merkel 200e a lot better by now if I hand't been warned off a certain barrel butcher. Sad to say, my "composed" m12 skeet gun with Colonial Arms screwins and a $30 Sile Monte Carlo on the back is the gun I've shot best for 16 yd trap, skeet, and birds. Sort of a double gun if you put in two shells? OK, I like my 12 ga. litewgt. Charlin about as well as any.

jack

20ga late Remington Parker, 0 frame, 28 inch barrels, double triggers of course and pistol grip stock. I had chokes adjusted to skeet/modified. With 3/4oz of 7s it is lightning on Arizona quail. With an ounce of shot not bad on South Dakota Pheasant either. Relationship after 23 years is still sweet. When I found her she was in need of some minor wood work which put the price where my military budget could afford her.

Stevens 311 20 gauge with choke tubes installed by Mike Orlen. For hunting, I shoot POC 0.005" in right barrel and 0.015" in the left barrel.
I want to say for the record that this is really what I like to shoot and I didn't post this to piss anyone off ;-)

My favorite is a 16 bore Joseph Lang non-rebounding hammer gun completed 6 March 1866, rebarreled in 4 bar damascus by James Woodward probably before 1882 (maybe even in or before 1872). She carried London black powder proofs until her 1990 reproof in Birmingham. I've put about 2,250 cartridges through her in the two years that I've been her caretaker. Older ladies are sexy.

I shoot a 12b Dickson round body,in the field. The barrels were sleeved after a bad case of "bird fever" made me blow up the right tube.

Many of my guns are my favorites otherwise I not keep them.But most of all I shoot my Spanish Sidelock made by Gaspar Arizaga.
I also like to shoot my W. Leech sidelock and my sidelock bird gun made by Henri Dumoulin in 16 gauge. When I am posted to shoot pigeons I like to shoot my W.Richards(liverpool) and recently my Lefever "G". grade.

My one remaining Lefever G, straight grip, steel barrels, high comb, a Browning Gran Lightning Citori 28 ga., newest love is the AYA 28/.410 set. While not a double, my Browning M42 repro is another favorite shooter.
Like Marc, if they are not favorites, I don't keep them. I'm a gun enjoyer, not a collector.