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Most of what I know about loading short Tens came off the short 10 sticky top of the reloading page. It's the best reference out there.
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That Remington is in great shape!
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Bill,
The 68 & 34 (you would add a "3" to the front of each number when only stamped with two digits) on the barrel lug is the pellet count for each barrel showing per cent of shot in a 30" circle at 40 yards, as it left the factory. With many Remington SxSs you will see a three digit number on the barrel lug. Bill |
What a great gun, and very scarce in B Grade and ten gauge. Now you need to invest in Semmer's Remington shotgun book.
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Remington hull 1 1/4 oz shot sp10 wad and 19 gr red dot. Dos'nt get any better than that. Nice gun.
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you have found a really nice gun...are the barrels fluid steel or damascus really dont matter you have a fine gun...pete lesters loads will help you a bunch and the load wayne gave you is a super good load for squirls or about any thing and really nice on the shoulder and wood...charlie
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They are Damascus barrels.
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Looks like the typical Three-Blade Damascus found of B-/BE-Grades. The B-Grade being the entry-level "made to order" Remington Hammerless Double, they are sometimes found with other Damascus patterns, like this early BE-Grade with Chain J barrels --
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That is a good looking gun
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That one needs to be amongst my accumulation of 10's :bigbye:
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Very nice BE Bill. I wish mine had the condition yours has.
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According to Remington Arms Co. catalogues of the period 1 1/4 ounce of #8 chilled counted 511. So, 334/511 = 65.4% and 368/511 = 72.0%.
I need a 10-gauge Remington Hammerless Double. So far all that have come my way have been 12- and 16-gauges. In that I already have all the grades from K to D, I guess what I really need is an EE-/EEO-Grade 10-gauge. I may have quite a wait!! For casual shooting with old tens a set of Gauge Mates makes life a lot easier. Congrats on a nice find. |
If I recall correctly no hang tags have been found for a 10ga Remington 1894. Although the 12ga Rem's were patterned with 1 1/4 ounce of #8 it is unknown if the 10ga's were patterned with the same load. That is a very high condition '94 and a nice B grade. Pattern it with your favorite loads and see what it does. The Remington's I have measured had long choke tapers, up to 6 inches and they will often shoot very tight patterns.
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As far as I know a hang tag for a Remington Arms Co. 10-gauge double has not come to light. However, the heaviest 10-gauge loads Union Metallic Cartridge Co. offered in 1900, the year the gun in question was probably made, was 3 3/4 drams of bulk smokeless powder pushing 1 1/4 ounces of shot out of their TRAP shell. A few years later UMC sped up the 10-gauge loads a bit with up to 4 1/4 drams of bulk smokeless powder or 34 grains of dense smokeless powder such as Infallible of Ballistite pushing that same 1 1/4 ounce of shot out of their ARROW shell.
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Gorgeous gun! Can't have been used too much. What a beauty. Clean it up a bit and it will look like a million bucks.
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