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Mine is a 16 ga. Win. M-21 with 28" barrels choked WS1-WS2, Merkel-like splinter, straight grip. The stock was bent to raise comb and add cast-off to fit me. At 6-3/4 lbs. it's light enough for all-day carry but heavy enough to comfortably shoot 1-1/8 oz. for wild pheasants.
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Extra light (6.4lb) 12br Merkel Freres 201e with 28 inch tubes.  It's the only shotgun I own. 
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Parker VH 12, 6lb 15oz 28", light mod and tight mod. It will do it all and gets most of the work.
But, in tight cover I often pull out a VHE 16 with 26" barrels.
And for late season waterfowl I usually pick an A5 out of the rack, but I have a pile in 12 and 16 and never know which one I'm going to grab next but the ones from the 1920's seem to get most of the work these days.
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I shoot some crows and some preserve pheasants but, since the only birds I really hunt are woodcock and grouse, I "go to" my 20 ga Fox... 
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Go to varies by birds and early vs late season. Opening Dove season has been a 16 Fox A grade for the last few years. Quail is a 20 Lefever but will now be my new/old Lefever E grade 20. Ducks are Fox 12, late Geese will now be NID 10. If lead was ever legal for ducks I would shoot my Winchester Model 12 - 28 gauge as it was my first gun and hold many fond memories.
I know people like one gun answers but I love them all and enjoy shooting them all. If I limited myself to just one the others would become closet queens and I can think of no sadder fate for a field grade gun. I even shoot my graded guns.
If my life was on the line my chioce might be as simple as a Mossberg 500 which I have shot 8-9,000 doves, ducks and geese with over the years. But meat and kill score have lost their value to me. I now go to keep my mind clear and eyes open to life and what time I have left will be spent watching more than doing I suspect. And that is fine with me.
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I shoot damascus almost always. My 'go to' is a Parker GHE 16 30 F/IC. One ounce of shot at about 1150 fps almost always gets the nod.
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It is my Kimber SuperAmerica 22rf rifle.
This rifle is with me all the time.
That's a go to gun/rifle in my book.
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Yesterday it was a 12ga Francotte with 26-inch barrels, the day before a M/IC 20ga SKB with 26-inch barrels. They've been go-to lately but I haven't really given the others a chance. I find that in a cosy bullrush blind for two and a dog, with the blacks tolling good, the short barrels do just fine. The Francotte was "Made for C.W. Billings" on the rib. Any ideas why he wanted short barrels for M/F 12? (The gun was made in 1899-1900. Were short barrels in vogue then?)
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A 12 Bore E Damascus Lefever for most things, An Auto Berretta for ducks, and a .444 for local elk in the brush and deer in Alaska. And a savage .308 for distance shooting.
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Currently own two Morgan cars. Starting on Black Powder hunting to advoid the mob of riflemen.
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My go to gun for years was my 1950s Ithaca Model 37, 20 gauge, solid rib gun. But after using it for so many years, I put it in the gun safe. Now I use a Model 21 12 gauge as my beater. I/C-C. I have been wanting to take out my 20 gauge Superposed or my Ithaca again, so one day I might. Pheasant season is just around the corner here.
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