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My Norman & Sons boxlock, 6lbs 1oz, 28" barrels 15 3/8" stock, balanced 1" in front of the hinge. I have learned that it was likely made by Holloway & Naughton in the 30's. 
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My hardest used double is a little 5# 6oz Verney Carron 20 bore with 27" barrels that I had Bob Day open up to .003 R & .010 L. It has carry wear on barrels and receivers and pitting in both bores, but it's a great little woodcock and rabbit gun. I haven't tried it on grouse, but it might be what I take if I get to East Tennessee before the season ends. It was a very well made but not super fancy production gun when it was made in the 1950s.  [/URL]
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BOB DAY !! 
USAF RET 1971-95 ![[Linked Image from jpgbox.com]](http://www.jpgbox.com/jpg/57865_80x60.jpg)
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sky carp = snow geese...Geo
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Yup, sky carp = snow geese
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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12ga 28in ic/mod st Merkel 147...go to gun since 94 or so....
use others now an then but seldom....Dads model 37 Ithaca, model 12 SR HD, 20ga citori lightning.....ect....
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Hardest use for me is (gasp!) a first generation Super Black Eagle for waterfowl. Most used is my favorite gun, an old 686 Black Onyx 20 ga with 28" barrels and spectacular factory wood. The Black Onyx is the original version with matte finish on wood and metal, steel grip cap.
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Hardest used? The 30" barreled BSS, no doubt. It gets knocked around in the duckayak, in and out of duck blinds, and in duck boats of all descriptions. Pretty rough life for a double.
Most shot while hunting? That's been a toss up for the last couple years between the 12 ga. 32" barreled BE grade 1918 Fox, and the 30" barreled .410 Dickinson, which gets service regularly in the dove and quail fields.
My faithful for 15 yrs. 30" barreled 687 SPII Sporting 20 gauge has been neglected this year. But ............if we pull the trip together to Cordoba for early next August, we'll make up for it.
I'm sorry, but I can't pick one specific double, as I tailor the gun to the type hunting, and they vary so much.
SRH
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but the more I think about the OP's question, I think he was asking the one that has been used the most on game. I was just a little too dense to understand it initially. There is no contest there. The 687 SPII Sporting has been fired around 10,000 times, at game. It's probably the most proven gun I will ever own. SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Stan,
That is correct. The most used 'hunting' shotgun.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
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A few years ago I gave my kids three Browning BSS's, guns that I have shot for over 30 years. For the last 12 years I have used a 6 lb. 2 oz. 16 Ga. #2 AyA to the exclusion of all my other shotguns. I hunt behind Annie my French Brittany for prairie grouse, Huns, Chukar, pheasant and dove. I reload all brass RMC hulls with payloads from 7/8 oz. through 1 1/8 oz. The gun looks new because I touchup any imperfections be they on wood or metal.
Jim
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