First pheasants with The Big Gun

[Stan Hoover]

The pheasant season is closing here in Pa in a few days, so I decided to take my new to me 10 gauge out the first time. We had a good afternoon even though the air was a bit damp and chilly.
Watching the dogs work, we put up 6 cockbirds and 2 hens. As for the new 10, it made me look like a good shot which is always nice. 2 shots, 2 birds, don’t even need to clean the left barrel :)
On the second bird for me, it was a surprise bird that the dogs missed and I almost stepped on. I probably got lucky but after about 4 or 5 shots from the guys, I finally had my hammers cocked and was thinking the bird is too far, but I figured, what the heck I got too try. The bird dropped to my surprise.
Long live the mighty 10:p

[Fred Slyfield]

Very neat Stan!!

[CraigThompson]

Well there you go ! Congratulations !

[Garry L Gordon]

Pretty satisfying to watch them drop, isn’t it? Glad you could get out with that wonderful gun. Thanks for sharing.

[Donald McQuade]

Good shooting and great pictures Stan. The tail feathers on that cock bird look world class, you should measure them.

[Daryl Corona]

So now your are shooting "smallbores" at pheasants??:shock::)

[keavin nelson]

Very nice Stan, what size shot did you use?

[Matt Buckley]

So tell us a little bit about your 10 gauge. I'm curious of the weight and specs.

[Mike Koneski]

Stan, the bird is never too far. Can't kill the bird if you don't pull the trigger!

[Stan Hoover]

Don,
The cockbird did have an extraordinarily long tail, I’ll have to measure the length.
Daryl,
The 8 gauge is resting comfortably, getting ready for the big event in Sanford in about 2 months. This one carries about like an 8 at 11 lbs 9 oz.
Keavin,
I was using my normal clays load, 1 1/4 oz 7 1/2’s.
Matt,
This is a 4 frame 10 gauge, 37 1/2” barrels with 3 1/4” chambers.

Stan

[Matt Buckley]

Wow, 37” barrels. I see it is listed in the Parker book as 37” barrels.

[charlie cleveland]

I could have bid on a box of 3 1/4 inch shells this past week...I now wish I had this is the first gun I ve heard of with 3 1/4 inch chambers.....and with those long barrels she s got to be a sweet heart of a gun....charlie

[Randy G Roberts]

Stan earlier you mentioned 37 1/2" barrels on this gun. My memory is probably leaving me but did this gun not have 37 3/8" barrels AND letter as such? Not that an eighth of an inch is a big deal but it is quite unique that it would letter as such. Sounds like you had a nice maiden voyage BTW, way to go!

[charlie cleveland]

just checked those 3 1/4 inch Winchester leader new primed empyties....it went for 341 dollars......100 empty hulls....charlie

[Stan Hoover]

Wow, 37” barrels. I see it is listed in the Parker book as 37” barrels.

Matt,
It is listed in the book as 37”. It was advertised as lettering with 37 1/2” barrels, I do not have the letter yet but there was a copy of the letter with the sale add showing as such.
Randy,
This gun was was mentioned as having 37 3/8” barrels earlier. They measure just a smidge over, so it is felt the barrels are original length even though they are slightly shy of 37 1/2”.
So pardon me for embellishing on the barrel length, I thought since it letters as 37 1/2”, that is what I would call it.:cool:
Charlie,
I didn’t take much time looking through that sale, had I seen those 3 1”4 shells, I would probably be just a little more poor now:)

[Stan Hoover]

Randy,

Maybe the fellow cutting the barrels to length was having a bit of Knob Creek since it was Friday, and he cut on the wrong side of the line:rotf:

Hope you had a great day on the sporting clays course :corn:

Stan

[Matt Buckley]

A very unique and rare barrel length. According to the Parker Story it is the only one built in that configuration.

[Garry L Gordon]

I watched that one "from afar" and wondered who among our long barrel aficionados would end up with it. So glad to see these big guns used to good end.

[Randy G Roberts]

Matt,

Randy,
This gun was was mentioned as having 37 3/8” barrels earlier. They measure just a smidge over, so it is felt the barrels are original length even though they are slightly shy of 37 1/2”.
So pardon me for embellishing on the barrel length, I thought since it letters as 37 1/2”, that is what I would call it.:cool:


Stan I guess that is where my memory left me as I thought the letter actually stated 37 3/8" vs 37 1/2". Not questioning the originality in any way, I was just thinking it was neat for the letter to be that specific. Of course one could argue that either the 3/8" or 1/2" is rather specific.

[Keith Sirmans]

Wow that is cool!