>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.

Edit: like Britt I rarely use ffg, the 10ga is no exception. I was using 140grs fffg. Not my smartest move.

 

[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.

 

[smo]

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.

 

[Trigger]

What are your talking about.

None of it was ai generated.

 

[Trigger]

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.

Is there any reason for this comment.

 

[aleksa oldfart]

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.

 

[Johnny Too-Tall]

I had 10 gauge Pedersoli double but sold it. However I still got a few modern one both browning one a pump others auto loader

 

[Acohill1]

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.

 

[Trigger]

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?

 

[Eterry]

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

Acohill, do you know anything about the mule ear 10; like who is the maker, where from etc? I bought a 12 gauge exact replica of yours at the Red River Renegades Shotgun Soiree a few years ago. Mine has a Winchester barrel with screw chokes.

I'm not a Handicap shooter, but watched those who are smoke clays at 60+ yards with full choke muzzleloaders. Makes me so jealous.

The guys I hunt geese with shoot over a huge spread and stand up blinds over peanut fields. We sit until the birds get in range then stand and Take Em! They voted me down on the Muzzleloader, saying me standing to load would chase off geese. And they're right. We sit to close to try and load sitting, I tried.

I think people who say they don't want to ruin a Muzzleloader with steel are ignorant of Bismuth or really don't want to hunt.

 

[Eterry]

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.

Britt, IIRC Lyman says using fffg has 30%-40% more velocity than ffg. Using that math 90grs of fffg is close to 125grs of ffg. Which is slightly heavier lead vs powder load with 2oz shot.

I also find a heavier load of shot vs powder usually performs better, but I recommend starting with the square load. It's so simple to use, hard to mess up, and until they pattern usually does Yeoman service.
Cheers my friend.