>10 gauge shotgun, shooters here?

[Splitear]

Lol. I meant where I am around here.

Gotcha!

 

[Blackpowderart]

I have 2 pedersoli 10ga. One is fixed choke waterfowl edition and on is screw in choke. Taken 2 turkeys in the 3 seasons i have owned it. Never shot the one with screw in chokes yet. It's my favorite gun and the best looking too.

 

[Des52]

I have 2 pedersoli 10ga. One is fixed choke waterfowl edition and on is screw in choke. Taken 2 turkeys in the 3 seasons i have owned it. Never shot the one with screw in chokes yet. It's my favorite gun and the best looking too.

I have the screw in choke one. Got the extra full chokes in now, do have modified for it too. Great turkey gun.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Outside of one's shooting group, 10 gauge is seldom seen. Try mentioning you own a 10 gauge in a different group of guys and listen to them.

I don't care what others think or say ....

 

[Eterry]

I would love to just run steel shot through it but it’s an antique so I don’t think it would be good for it, sure it would work but long term I feel it would just scrape the hell out of the bore.(I’m assuming) I do have a T/c 12g that I will run steel through though just not this 10g. I need to take it out again. It’s a beast. My fingers won’t touch my thumb when I hold it around the chamber-end. It’s crazy, that’s why I had to have it hahaha

Get some bismuth and have no worries.

 

[Eterry]

I have a 10 bore single barrel underhammer made by Bill Mowrey with a full choke. It was made for trap, uses a Marlin 36" bolt gun barrel cut back to 32".
It's murder on turkeys, never shot trap with it. Right after I got it, felt brave and loaded a 2 oz square load for turkey. Saw none, so shot it at 40 yards. It killed a 5 gallon bucket and my shoulder. 1.5 oz is plenty.

 

[oldwood]

In the early 1970's I lost interest in modern ctg. 12 ga. trap shooting and small game hunting . I migrated to a sbs double Pedersoli 12 ga. , then up sized to a 10 ga. Pedersoli. Both were fine game killers , when properly loaded. The secret to any shotgun is tight shot patterning. I had success w/ thin card wad , wad columns , and equal powder charges to volumn of shot. Thin card wads drop out of the shot cloud quickly maintaining good shot pattern density. Also , use one size shot larger than is recommended in a ctg. gun. I hunted ringneck phesants , rabbits , and squirrels w/ as good success as with ctg. 12 ga. guns. Then I built a flint lock 7 ga,. More fun hunting w/ the 7 ga. than any other. 166 gr. ffg with an equal amt. of shot. Oh my. Almost a sensual experience. Once shot at a grouse in a dense thicket , but had a load of 0000 buck shot in the gun loaded for turkey. The grouse got away , but the buck shot cut an impressive hole in the brush. Gotta love it.

 

[Britsmoothy]

Forget these so called square loads when loading heavy loads.
Black powder works better the more it has to push.
With 2oz I load around 90gn of fine powder. It's plenty.