I see little to no point in taking a 10 bore with no choke and degrading any performance the ammo may yield by dropping the pressures (and resultant velocity) and attempting to down ducks. If you want to go fowling, use ammo which is intended for the gun's whole barrel, not 4" of it. Modern wads are dimensioned to fit a barrel diameter, and seal the gasses to achieve some sense of killing power. Wounding game for the sake of using a particular gun isn't responsible, in my estimation.

I agree.

I've taken Pheasant with the gun using 1-1/4" 12 Ga ammo at a tower shoot. I wasn't getting the impact that I wanted to see. However, that could be due to the lack of choke. I've shot the gun on the pattern board at various distances. The pattern is decent out to the 25 to 30 yrd mark, but completely falls apart further out. I've contemplated Choke Tubes. But, I do hear what you your saying about killing power using 12 ga ammo.

Ha!! No worries!

Cheers to you Kind Sir!

Nice Shot and Kent TM deliver clean kills and cleaner than the stuff I used to use in my BPS. I agree wholeheartedly that whatever you use should deliver clean kills. No steel and no 410's

As long as you don't shoot the cheapo stuff, modern steel kills just fine. Through a Parker? No way! I suppose unless it was a beater piece of junk with open chokes, then I suppose I wouldn't care.

Destry