Coming from a family of modest means I started out with an Ithaca Model 37 pumpgun and then to a Winchester Model 12 which I consider to the best the best repeating shotgun in the world and a great gun for shooting 16-yard American-style trap....and not a bad gun for the duck-blind either.

As I started buying my own guns I gravitated toward O/Us specifically Browning Superposed for upland birds and Krieghoff K-32s for competition but switched to mostly Perazzi's in the early 70's. Depending on the crowd I'm hunting with and the birds we're shooting, etc I will take a nice little Model 21 16ga or a Perazzi MX8 with ltwt barrels. I shoot the Perazzi best as I've used the same receiver, with an increasing number of barrels and stocks, for more than 30 years for Bunker, ATA Trap, Skeet, Sporting Clays, Live Pigeons and game birds....approaching medium 6-figures for a shell count.

Give me an O/U with a single trigger every time.