Pedersoli 10 gauge a turkey gun?

[azmntman]

Do search here for the Skychief load. It is backwards as all heck but it WORKS. May be all you need to do?

 

[Rat]

Yes, it's not about the choke, it's all about the load. Many ways to tighten up the pattern on a non-choked barrel.

 

[FiremanBrad]

Cyl bore is no choke. You would need at least mod or tighter for turkey. There has to be enough muzzle wall thickness to put in choke tubes.

Simply not true on the mod or tighter comment!!!

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Simply not true on the mod or tighter comment!!!

Well I'm not sure "untrue" is accurate any more than it's true that you "need at least mod or tighter for turkey".

Hey Campers, there are a whole lot of variables.... and I don't think we actually narrowed down what we're talking about, have we?

So IF you want to equal the performance of a modern, 12 gauge, "turkey gun"...so you are putting 50% of the pellets from a 3.5" magnum shell, launching a load of 1⅞ ounces of shot, into a 36" circle at 45-50 yards...you're probably going to need a choked barrel. It won't hurt you to have a choked barrel, btw.

On the other hand if you are only reaching out 25 yards, and you are shooting 2¼ ounces of #4 shot from the 10 gauge, you should have no trouble taking a turkey, with a cylinder bore barrel, and with a little work you probably can reach out closer to 40 yards...but you still won't have as many pellets in that 36" diameter circle at 40 yards as the choked barrel...but do you need to equal modern performance to still harvest that turkey?

Last time I checked it was pellets in the neck/head that did the trick...,

LD

 

[Rat]

Something that I was trying to point out, that no, one does not need to equal the performance of the super nuclear magnum turkey guns. They, themselves, are a sales gimmick. The concept is a gimmick to sell them Super Nuclear Magnum turkey guns. Modern shooters have been convinced of that, of "needing" a 60 yard range, and it tends to "bleed" over to the muzzle loading crowd. Turkeys are not hard to kill. Heck, the modern shooter/Turk hunter has pretty much been convinced that one needs a semi-auto...although I've never heard of a turk requiring two or more shots to bring it down.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

Chromed locks!
Not seen that model.

This is what they look like:

Looks so inauthentic and horrible. Show me ONE extant original muzzle loading percussion shotguns with such a finish on the locks. My guess is a cost cutting measure by Pedersoli.

 

[Rat]

Hey, it looks silver plated. Could be one out there with silver plated locks. Or was, now it's gone. Horrible. I would gladly take that horrible looking gun off anyone's hands, in order to spare them the shame. They would never have to look at it again. I find the hard-chromed triggers much more insulting than the locks. Then I'd hunt in wilderness areas where no one would see me with it, except dudes with inlines, who would point their fingers at me and shout: "INAUTHENTIC!!!". Wait. I do that anyways.

 

[Britsmoothy]

This is what they look like:

Looks so inauthentic and horrible. Show me ONE extant original muzzle loading percussion shotguns with such a finish on the locks. My guess is a cost cutting measure by Pedersoli.

I doubt that is chrome. Possibly nickel.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

I doubt that is chrome. Possibly nickel.

Yeah I'd say that's nickel...

"The only ugly guns are the ones that don't hit the target when well aimed."

I've seen me some rather plain, rather haphazardly assembled looking, rifles and guns at matches, and then sighed as the users of those rifles and guns went home with the ham that I was trying to win.

LD

 

[Grenadier1758]

Around our area to the south of St. Louis, there are table matches, where you shoot off a rest on a table. Many of the traditional rifles used are heavy barreled, crudely stocked, and seemingly indifferently sighted rifles that continually put the ball on the x center.

Now, back to the 10 gauge question. Yes, the cylinder bored 10 gauge can be an effective turkey gun. The user has to know how it patterns at the ranges a turkey can be called to. The effectiveness is based as much on the skill of the hunter as the characteristics of the shotgun.

 

[Kansas Jake]

I don't have a muzzleloading shotgun anymore. All I have is a 2 3/4 inch unmentionable 12 that was purchase right out of high school 50+ years ago. I guess I can never go hunting with it again because it won't kill anything according to todays advertisers. I would gladly take a 20, 16, 12 or a 10 gauge muzzleloader on a turkey hunt or for any other upland bird or waterfowl. One would just have to realize the limitations with each.

I think that 10 gauge would be great for turkey. As noted by others, it just needs a decent load worked up.

 

[Rat]

Nickel would be more shiney. Pretty sure that's hard chrome. I believe it would be more difficult to get that satin look with nickel, easy to do with hard-chrome, as that is how hard chrome looks.

Or, I could be wrong.

Jake, trust me, I just recently took a big Turk with the unmentionable unmentioned firearm which you didn't actually mention when you mentioned it. It was made around 1910, burns black powder...I'm not sure how it possibly happened. Maybe I too should never try it again.

 

[Zonie]

Take my word for it. It's dangerous talking about unmentionables on the forum or, on the web for that matter.

Don't believe me?

Go tell your wife you've been talking about her unmentionables on the web. POW !!!!!!!

When you've picked yourself up off the floor, you'll know ole' Zonie speaks the truth.

 

[Rat]

I hear, and I believe. Funny you should mention it.

 

[THBailey]

Pedersoli 10 ga SxS is plenty enough gun for turkey.

 

[THBailey]

But then, so is the Pedersoli 12 ga SxS:

And the Pedersoli 20 ga SxS works too:

 

[Rat]

And so is an 11 gauge Brown Bess Carbine, which I was unable to upload a pic of her and a Turk, but look left and you'll see her with some grouse.