It has been so long since I've shot anything other than a SxS I'm not sure I could anymore. I got rid of a Browning Citori 20ga to get my Squirt and Bodie. Never shot it anyway. Also have a beautiful Ithica mod 37 16ga with a corn cob slide that I take out a lot to fool with but don't hunt with it. Last twenty years plus I have used either a 12ga Charles Daley, 12ga AyA or my 16ga AyA. This year the only gun I've carried has been my 28ga AyA. Something about SxS's I just love. I have 28" barrels on all them and don't care for a shorter one, a bit longer swings better for me. Years ago hunting grouse I used a Browning Double Auto 12ga with a 26" skeet barrel, only auto I would ever own again. Once you've had the best, nothing else will do. I also had an 870 Special Field 20ga I gave to my son. Very handy in grouse woods as I just threw it up and shot. Tried it on chukars and pheasants and didn't do well. Barrel was to short and it didn't swing well. I also have an AyA in 410 and I've come close to taking it out this year. I have a couple boxes of 1/2 oz #6's that should work fine on closer shots over a dog. Feels like a toy!

I have a few favorites too including an old outside hammer side by side twelve gauge from the 1890s, and a fairly new Browning semi auto twelve gauge.  I've attached a photo of my Browning model B-80.  It seems to hit more birds with its 2 3/4 inch shells than my Charles Daly did with a 3 1/2 inch chambering. 

I usually give the Browning B-80 (which I think was made by Baretta believe it or not) to my son to use when we hunt together because I consider it the best shotgun I own.  As a result I usually use a semiautomatic twelve gauge made by Tristar (noep I've never heard of them either except for this gun).  This was a prize at a Duck's Unlimited banquet.  i didn't win but the fellow who did didn't need teh shotgun and sold it to me new in teh box for a used gun price.  I think that the semi automatics soak up recoil and are just as fast as any other action style.  I'd hunt with them all the time but the old side by side is just a pleasure to carry and I don't think I'll ever part with it.  i find myself looking for excuses to use it and end up carrying it every time I'm in the field with a shot-gun unless I am after water fowl.  When I'm chasing geese, I want the third shot to make sure that I knock down all the birds I can and that they stay down.

The second photograph attached is teh Browning again in a camo sleeve.  I was hunting alone that day so I got to use it.  I suppose that I really should pick up a second Browning so that my son and I can both hunt with one.  Anybody have a B-80 for sale?

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I have a 26" Citori that I use the most. Had it fitted when I bought it and it's been good for me.  It shows the marks too, probably couldn't get $500 for it with all the dings and marks on it but that's my heirs' problem!   Recently I got an Ithaca 37 Featherlight in 12 ga. that has been shortened to 26" and had choke tubes put in it.  I've shot it some this season and probably will more as I get more used to it.  Big weight difference from the Citori but so far I shoot the Citori better.

If it was me I'd shoot that BPS until I found something else I had to have, nothing wrong with that at all!

I like a 26 inch barrel for walking the fields for pheasant or for jump shooting on waterfowl.  I use either my 26" barrled Franchi Alcioni O/U or my 26 inch barrel Remington 870 Express for upland birds and like them very much.  I've been considering buying a Franchi semi-auto, the only thing that stops me is that I'm too attached to my 28 inch barrled Remington 11-87 for waterfowl hunting, so much so that a new Franchi probably wouldn't get used much.  I just can't justify buying a gun that sits in the safe unused.  Well, okay I could justify it, back when I was single and before the kids came along, but not now. God knows I already have plenty of other guns that sit locked in the safe unused.