Yard Sale Find, 10 ga
 

At a yard sale today I picked up 200 or more Winchester 3.5 in hull, a bag of 50? new unfired and primed 3.5 in hulls, 2 bags of SP10 wads and some other type of 10 ga wad. Also 50 shells , a mix of lead and steel, even a few tungsten, all 3.5 in. Grand total was $50 for all.
Makes me wish I owned a 10 ga. I realize most vintage 10s are the short 10, but figure these could be cut down.

Nice find

Look around the tent at Ernie's next week and you may find a gun to go with all that. (They would be in the men's section:rotf:)

Yard sales are a little different in West Virginial

Going to put this in the for sale forum

My best advice.........Harold, sell the loaded 3 1/2" ammo, buy the short 10 ga. gun, cut the hulls down and load'em! I buy 3 1/2" 10 ga. hulls and cut them down to load, don't know I've seen 2 7/8' new hulls for sale. I shoot 1 1/4 oz light loads in my 10s for doves and clays, a bit more gun than I want to carry for quail or pheasant. Besides, my friends and customers would disown me for shooting quail with a 10. They howled when I broke one out on a hot, windy day while hunting White Wing doves. The birds were high, moving fast, and the girly men with 28's got watch me put a limit in front of my dog while they burned thru boxes of shells.

My favorite gun for the odd times I have been grouse hunting is a J.P. Sauer 10 gauge 26" 6 pound 4 ounce ultra lightweight. I put a 1 1/4 ounce boomer in the left barrel, just in case.

What you should do with the 3 1/2" shells with tungsten shot is give them to your Parker Pages editor. He uses tungsten in handloads for turkey. Just sayin'.

Sorry Mike, Craig Johnson has them

My only 10 gauge Parker is a really nice condition Lifter that I got from the annual Brimfield Flea Market some fifteen years ago. It’s a D-grade with original length fine Damascus barrels and all the other features of the Grade 3’s.

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Do you mean Craig Thompson? If so he’s going to need to find someone else’s 8g to shoot in our events in July!! That sneaky, no good,…….

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