What shotgun would be best for taking predators.

Best for varmits would be a TEN guage, but boy howdy whata kick. Have a friend that hunts coyotes with his 10ga. and has killed several out around 80yards..My arthritic bones won't handle a shotty this large..

You have a savage fox and you even considered trading it in? ARE YOU NUTS????

I have one also, but it's a B-E (S stands for Single trigger, mine is a double trigger, E means select ejectors.) and I know that my husband told me I was not allowed to shoot slugs or steel shot through it. I'm not sure why, but he knows way more about it than I do. But mine is too nice to take out into the brush. BTW - if in good shape, they are going for $600 to $800 around my neck of the woods. I've been looking for the 12 gauge to match my 20 for about 4 years. Double triggers are hard to find.

I recently got a Savage o/u in .223/20 gauge. What is funny about mine is the serial number on the receiver indicates it was manufactured before .223 came on the market. That means the barrel set was swapped out at a later date. Kind of neat that you can do that with them. This will be my barn gun, the one to grab when you aren't quite certain what you might be dealing with - shutgun for inside the barn, and .223 if the critter takes off across the field.

Cathy

A fox at the gunshow Sat. but it was a 16 ga. if I remember right. I had a .223/20ga. Savage but since I never used it I let a cllector in NJ have it. Looking for a good double s/s 20 ga. myself.