New to me EH

[charlie cleveland]

once in time the 10 ga was the favorite of all shotguns...it was used as a quail gun....my dad almost got to buy a lc smith 10 ga hammerless with 26 inch impr. cly both barrels it was used as a quail gun....charlie

[Researcher]

once in time the 10 ga was the favorite of all shotguns.

Don't think that is true, Charlie. One of the many shotgun related "olde wive's tales." Research presented at one of the long ago PGCA annual meetings showed the 10-gauge never outsold the 12-gauge and by the late 1890s the 10-gauge market share had become miniscule.