8 ga. chamber lenghts

[peter holden]

4" is long enough for anyone, if you cant stop geese with 7 dram 2 1/4 ounce its time to packup. the other option use a muzzle loader no chambers to bother about. I have been using a single muzzle loading 8 weighing in at 16 pound but found no pattern advantage using anything above 2 ounce. big gun prices are going rather silly over here at the moment the local gun shop has a Greener boxlock none ejector double 8, but he is asking £13,000 for it. Its nice but not that nice.

Peter.

[Don Kaas]

Peter-as you know, the problem here in North America is that we can not use our 8 bores on wildfowl (and in many states on no game whatsoever). Other than the odd clandestine poke at a Canada or chamber inserts to 10 bore magnum (show them the 10 bore cartridges and the wardens never know) and the occasional foray in some places for turkey, 8 bores are a guncrank's indulgence here.

[Bill Murphy]

Peter, how much would my eight bore Greener Royal 33" (original) unengraved hammer gun sell for over there? It is high condition, nitro proofed for 3 3/4" cases. Made in 1885 according to GG.

[peter holden]

Hi Don.
I new about not being able to use 8 gauge on fowl, but it seems a strange ruling and would have thought that it would be more appropriate to put a shot charge limit in place rather than a gun size restriction, after all it should not matter if you shoot 2 1/4 ounce in a 10g or 8g. As for youre chamber sleeves this is basically going back to the brass perfect case system. i have a willam ford 10g chambered for no12 brass perfect cases i load & shoots this with very good results. I also have a T Wild 10g. i use modified 10g shell tubes to accept 12g shells(streched on a mandrel) this works exactly the same as the brass perfect shells in the my william ford.
Pete.