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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.
 

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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. :thumb:
 
Alex, I’ll take England for $200…
And the answer is…

I'm always getting compliments.

I own the most famous gun here I think. I've had compliments on the sound. The look. Everything. The dog gets an equal amount of compliments.

The beagle and muzzloader.. I was out there last week I had a guy ask me a half hour worth of questions. He was a bird hunter just walking the dog.

I hide at the gun range. I use the primitive range if I have to shoot the pedersoli just because….

Answer…
What is, what an AI bot might say.😏
 
Alex, I’ll take England for $200…
And the answer is…

I'm always getting compliments.

I own the most famous gun here I think. I've had compliments on the sound. The look. Everything. The dog gets an equal amount of compliments.

The beagle and muzzloader.. I was out there last week I had a guy ask me a half hour worth of questions. He was a bird hunter just walking the dog.

I hide at the gun range. I use the primitive range if I have to shoot the pedersoli just because….

Answer…
What is, what an AI bot might say.😏

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I just had to have a bp shot gun 20 some years ago. Got hold of a 10ga. Side by side navy arms. Bought number 6 size to 8 size shot , round balls, 00 balls. Round balls and patch shoots all over the target. 00buck can't say I would shoot at anything to kill. The different shot size shoot a good pattern out to 30 yards. I've tried the plastic shot cups, but they don't pattern any better then using the wads. Tried different amounts of powder from 80 to 110 BP. Tried dove hunting but never any good at shooting birds with any gun. Killed a couple rabbits. Was going to go squirrel hunting with it , but it so dry in the woods don't want to sit the woods on fire.
 
I have 2 10 gauges a single shot mule ear trap gun that's jugged full and a pedersoli with modern chokes. Both guns have taken game for me this year. I prefer the trap gun for dove believe it or not. I down load it to an ounce of shot and can take dove out to 60 yards. The double barrel pedersoli might as well be a cartridge gun. It can and has taken duck and goose out to 40 or 50 yards with 1 1/2oz of bismuth. Love both my 10ga guns just hate the cleaning process.
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I have 2 10 gauges a single shot mule ear trap gun that's jugged full and a pedersoli with modern chokes. Both guns have taken game for me this year. I prefer the trap gun for dove believe it or not. I down load it to an ounce of shot and can take dove out to 60 yards. The double barrel pedersoli might as well be a cartridge gun. It can and has taken duck and goose out to 40 or 50 yards with 1 1/2oz of bismuth. Love both my 10ga guns just hate the cleaning process.View attachment 375074View attachment 375075

What cleaning process?
 
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