12 or 20 gauge for pheasants?

[Deerhntr71]

What is everyone's favorite?

 

[Brooks]

20

 

[guywhofishes]

20g M2 :;:rockit

 

[DirtyMike]

12 ga at short range preferably flying straight away or right to left. I could just as well throw my gun at a rooster flying left to right.

 

[SDMF]

20ga, 2 3/4" 1oz #5's.

 

[Pinecone]

22 long rifle:;:

 

[3Roosters]

20g early season, 12 g mid and late season.

 

[Enslow]

Longbow and a bottle of jack (throw away the cover in the garbage immediately after opening)...

 

[eyexer]

switched to a 20 two years ago and won't ever go back to the 12. early or late. made some amazingly long kill shots with the full choke in late last year. no reason whatsoever to drag that heavy 12 around.

 

[riverview]

12 ga at short range preferably flying straight away or right to left. I could just as well throw my gun at a rooster flying left to right.

I shoot a 12 at everything

 

[guywhofishes]

riverview - are you a leftie?

I am right-handed and I was pondering my extreme left-to-right suckage at skeet - and concluded that right-to-left shots are way easier for me because a right-handed person is then pulling their gun across with their left hand - like swinging a golf club or bat.

With left-to-rights a right-handed shooter is pushing the gun across with their left hand... very unnatural.

Maybe there are some lefties here who struggle predominantly with the right-to-left shots?

 

[DirtyMike]

I shoot a 12 at everything

Same here. I don't own a 20 ga. so that limits my possibilities.

 

[Hookin8easy]

12 gauge full choke 28" barrel, reach out and drop em, only by 2 types of shells too, 4 shot heavy field lead for upland(Winchester) and nitro steel 4 shot 1 1/4 oz(Remington)for waterfowl, has always worked for me, gives a guy a chance to get a good bead on em and make each shot count versus rushing the first 2 and tossing a Hail Mary with the 3rd

 

[Kickemup]

I shoot 12 at everything. But this gives me a reason to go buy a 20. Thanks guys

 

[Bed Wetter]

Shot 12 for duck but plan on 20 for roosters.

 

[SDMF]

riverview - are you a leftie?

I am right-handed and I was pondering my extreme left-to-right suckage at skeet - and concluded that right-to-left shots are way easier for me because a right-handed person is then pulling their gun across with their left hand - like swinging a golf club or bat.

With left-to-rights a right-handed shooter is pushing the gun across with their left hand... very unnatural.

Maybe there are some lefties here who struggle predominantly with the right-to-left shots?

Easier to stop the push than the pull as there's more "body" involved in the pull. Most shotgun missing is related to stopage.

 

[svnmag]

Does not matter. 16 is perfect. I'm also weary of the recoil myth.

 

[Crankn]

I've never went pheasant hunting.:;:huhMaybe 12Ga.

 

[Mort]

Started with a 20....don't ask why I went with 12 down the road some years ago....thinking I'm going back to the 20 this year.

 

[Kurtr]

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