Bore Obstruction--Close call

[Stan Hillis]

My 20 ga. Beretta 687 SPII Sporting can handle all the flurries you can throw at it. It's done Argentina doves twice, averaging a shot every 20 seconds for three hours at a time, with nary a problem. It might be worthwhile to find out how their barrels and ribs are joined.

[Gerald McPherson]

Originally Posted by Stan Hillis

My 20 ga. Beretta 687 SPII Sporting can handle all the flurries you can throw at it. It's done Argentina doves twice, averaging a shot every 20 seconds for three hours at a time, with nary a problem. It might be worthwhile to find out how their barrels and ribs are joined.

I wonder what temperature it becomes unsafe to load a shell in a hot gun. We know it melts and welds.

[GH-16]

I've had the barrels so hot on Argentina dove shoots you couldn't touch them. One of the more experienced guys on my first time down there wore a welder's glove on his forearm hand. I wounded a parakeet that landed in a nearby tree & my bird boy wanted me to finish him off, the gun was so hot that when I tried to sight down the barrels to aim at the bird, the heat mirage coming off the barrels was so bad that I couldn't see the bird. In all of the two-barreled guns I've seen on my eight trips down there, I've never seen a rib separation and several of those guns had been on multiple trips & survived without a hitch.

The only time I've experienced melted/welded plastic in a bore other than on my buddy's gun the other day was in screw chokes on Argentine dove shoots, the only way I could remove the plastic was to carve it out with a pocketknife. On that particular hunt the shooting was so fast & furious I had to clean the choke tubes at lunch & then again after the evening shoot.

[Larry the Gun Guy]

When we were kids, 18 or so and invincible, a few of us had Belgian Browning Auto-5s in 3" Mag. When we were waiting for the Canada geese to come in we would get bored. So, someone wanted to see if they could cut a standalone fence post down with their Winchester XX Magnum lead loads. That morphed into someone having the bright idea of taking out their pocketknife and scoring the shell about 1/2" above the brass. When the load was shot it cut that fence post in half at about 10 yards. Nothing came out of the gun except the brass. We all did it a few times with no negative results. But, now that I know I'm not invincible I would never try that stunt again.

[William Machauer]

Cut shells, a couple buddies and I shot an ancient apple tree down once.

This past weekend I had a powderless reload, a pheasant got up and I saw the shot go about 10 feet down range. The wad was stuck and a lung full of air blew it out and back to hunting the ol VH went.

Remember the Peter's Blue Magic? Can't think of how many of those burned through and became slugs on the trap range years ago.
Come to think of it I cannot remember the last time I saw a hull part ways.