Cute shotgun!

I found a real cutie today, an old Stevens model 94 single shot in 28 gauge! Very cute and very clean. I wanted to try to shoot my first turkey with my 410 double with hammers but this one may get tried first. Any other 28 shooters?

Dad loved his for ducks when lead was legal, he said he could swing it faster than anything else for woodies and teal. Tried it for pheasants, it was a lot better than a 410, more shot and his is a pump compared to a single shot, but preferred a 12 ga. For the range.

What kind of pump 28 did he have?

Remington I believe.

Very cool! Someday I will find an 870 with a rib in 28. I have a High Standard now but 870’s are my love.

I have a Beretta A400 Xplor w/28” barrel. Fun little dove gun. Might try it on early teal season this Sept. using Bismuth.

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I picked up a Stevens 555 compact in 28. I have only shot clay pigeons with it so far,but will take it to the turkey woods in a few weeks.

I had one a few years ago and it was a joy to carry for grouse but I did have troubles with the pendulum resetting and often only got one shot out of it. It was fun to carry though. I couldn’t hit anything with it but that was due to a loose but behind the trigger.

He would still be using it if steel loads were more available I think a couple of companies are making them now, he tried reloading them but back then there wasn’t much data for steel loads, especially on a 28, and they didn’t pattern very good.

I haven’t fired a shot in anger at a duck in almost 20 years. Shooting 410’s and 28’s I don’t punish many grouse either!

I have not had that happen yet. Some said that it happens when you do not pull it real tight to your shoulder when shooting. Kind of like limp wristing a pistol. It needs a real solid surface to recoil against to reset.

I was shooting fairly light loads too, even for a 28.

That's a rare caliber for a Stevens. Did you buy it? Tell me about this .410 double. I love doubles. I had a W.J. Jeffrey (British, London), circa 1930s in twenty-eight gauge. Twenty-five inch barrels and weighed in right at five pounds. A beautiful gun but I couldn't hit a thing with it. I paid three grand for it. Wish I would have kept it. They go for around six grand today when you can find one.

I have my grandmas 28 gauge it’s a Winchester model 12 that my dad and his brothers bought for her as a birthday present which they sprang for the extras such as upgrade on wood and engraveing with gold inlays of birds and bird dogs

While officially it belongs to me my daughter has it and uses it to shoot trap with

I got a used one about 20 years ago. Nice gun

i got a stevens 555 that stomps turkeys. used a 410 this morning and took a nice 2 year old.

Beretta A400 28 gauge here and also a 28 over under Yildiz-both are very light-excellent to carry.Love 28 gauge shotguns.First shotgun I shot was an 1148 Remington 28 gauge

Thats all I use small game ,dove hunting and early duck season. I have 2 a Remington 1100 28 gauge and a tristar viper 28 gauge . Looking to get a beretta A400 in one this year.

GASP

I picked up a 28 remington 1148 two weeks ago. It looks like new, I cant bring myself to shoot it yet. I also have an over/under and side x side in 28 that I shoot. I also have a model 37 winchester red letter in 28 that I dont shoot. It's part of a set. I didn't know stevens made a single in 28. Great find I hope you enjoy it.

Buddy old pal.......

Oh yes, I bought it! It had serious cute factor!

The old 410 double is cute too. Exposed hammers and very tight. I shot a couple of grouse with it and then put it back in the safe. It’s about like carrying a broom stick.

Sorry Rob not for sale. Maybe you can get it from the wife when I croak.

Nightlife,

I had a beautiful circa 1938 Model 12, Field Grade, 2 7/8" chamber that I picked up shortly after starting my teaching career. I had to go the the local bank and get an $800.00 loan to get it. It was the centerpiece in my Model 12 collection...... BUT........ two boys in college and stuff had to go. The Model 12, a Model 42, and a minty 1886. I made out great, but still looking for a Pre-War Model 12, 28 gauge.

Your daughter's a lucky gal......... Don't scratch the high gloss stock! LOL

Great find, Rob! 28's are a cool gauge for sure. I would love to have an original Win. model 12 in a 28 but they are hard to find and out of my price range in original condition. I had to "settle" for the Browning in the model 12 reproduction grade 4 in 28 gauge that is nice to look at:
Still unfired but not afraid to if and when the mood strikes me.

If you want to see a really sweet combo, look up the Winchester mod. 23 Dove and Quail. Single receiver, two barrel set, one in .410, one in 28.
Just pretty.

Dang! I would have to get a big County beaver contract to afford something like that! Side by sides are my favorite too.

MNMan, that Browning is cute but I never could shoot a model 12 or 42. I grew up shooting 870’s and got used to “cheating” the forend back when shooting.

inherited a over/under i look forward to playin around someday.

Details! We need details......

I'd love to see some pics of both if and when you get around to it. Smaller gauge guns always command a higher price over the larger bores. I owned a few Stevens back when I was a kid but I'm sure the smallest bore was a twenty gauge. My great aunt had one in .410. She gave it to a neighborhood kid in payment for mowing her lawn. I'd love to have that gun.

stevens model 512,had to look.

I had a 11-48 in 28 for awhile, nice enough gun but it was real picky about the ammo it liked. Have a Bakal in .410 sos now, it’s a club! Had a Rem. 1100 in 3” .410 I traded to 160 users folks years ago. Had a blast shooting doves with that in Texas. I’m going to get another one some day.

Rob,
Had a chance to buy that dove and quail combo in 1985 for $3200.00. Pretty sure the 28 barrel had never been shot. Not sure I will ever get over passing on that set.

A borrowed semi for a photo op. A Stevens 20 gauge and a Parker GHE 20 gauge.

Posco
Glad to see you are shooting that Parker. They were made to shoot not be safe queens. Drives me crazy thinking about all the fine guns just sitting in safes unfired. Scratches just add character and memories. Often wished old guns could tell their stories.

I am also an 870 guy. Ever since I bought one in 1967 or so It has been my favorite pump and served me well both hunting about everything to trap shooting where I did very well with it in the 70's and 80's. I am also a model 12 guy since I bought one in Heavy Duck 3" in 1963 but sold it for college money a few years later. I always regretted that. I now have model 12's in all gauges (one being the Browning in 28) and a 42 as well since I still have a fondness for them even though the 870's seem to fit me better but not by much.

You can still find the 870's in 28 If you look around on the gun sites but they are the newer models and not as good as the old Wingmasters but I'm sure you already know this.

1930's vintage. I paid two grand for the gun years ago and put another two grand into in a restoration by a gunsmithing genius. I sent him the gun and his recommendation was to sue the dealer who sold me the gun. His second sentence was "What the h##l do you expect me to do with this?" Had the barrels sleeved, stock/forearm refinished and the checkering re-cut. Brought it back to life. Utterly amazing craftsman. Twenty-six inch barrels choked modified and full, twin triggers and tipped the scales at an even six pounds. A grouse killing machine.

here is my 28ga. used it this morning on this fine bird.

Nice! I was just told that 20 gauge is the minimum legal gauge here so I guess turkey hunting is out for me.

Some nice guns. Morgan’s 410 isn’t as nice as some of the over unders but it’s kinda cute wouldn’t you say?

Nice gun!

Logan has the same one!

here is my 410 turkey gun

Even more challenging is you shot it upside down!

ha yeah i sure did lol

i started hunting with a little winchester model 67 .410.thing has piles of miles on it but you'd pay heck getting it outta me.

Here you go. Not the greatest pictures but I was in a hurry. From left to right, a Savage 220 410 hammerless, the Stevens 94 in 28 gauge and the American Gun Company 410 side by side.

Nice looking guns, dad had a single shot .410 since he was a kid and grandpa had it before that until about the mid seventies, when someone else wanted that and a bag of wood duck decoys. Cost him the gun the decoys and one window on a door that wasn’t locked.

Thieves are lower than a snakes belly!

Yes they’re.

The words "cute" and "shotgun" should not be used in the same sentence... unless of course you are saying something like: "I let this really cute girl I met shoot my shotgun and now she wants to go bird hunting." Or perhaps, "Did you see that cuet gal with the nice O/U shotgun?"

another one with the 28

Nice, are those aftermarket choke tubes?

That Savage 410 is sure a nice.......museum collectors gun.............more than one tray has been filled with specimens.
Thank for posting Rob.
Reminds me of a fellow from Ohio that travelled the seasons with his dogs.
Started in Alaska on ptarmigan.15 August ? Saskatchewan for hunn's then to
Moved to Manitoba for sharptails.
and had to be in Quail season opener 11 Nov in Ohio, was his priorities.
Driving north across the Canadian boarder they wanted to charge taxes on his shells for the season. Story prior to 911. He normally had 2-3000 rounds of 28 and 410 and 20 guage. Out come a catalogue of prices and he had to pay full price on them for the taxes. Like 500$, well his learning exercise was to buy old boxes with 0.79 cent stickers on them and a bill from a defuct country store and carry those as proff. and never throw them away, but to move the shells.I had 20 boxes of 28's for him and he loved them, but they were 1.28$ stickers.
He was so appreciated that he went and bought 10 pounds of pickerel cheeks for dinner that night. I learned the phrase of "Ohio well-fare that night" ......10 wells worth.