I have used a 10 gauge for ducks with regularity. I have three nice 10 gauge waterfowl guns -- an Ithaca (New Ithaca) Hammer gun, an Ithaca 3.5 inch NID, and a very nice Parker GH. The hammer gun has more open chokes and works best for me (hunting over decoys). The other two are choked very tightly, but really drop birds when I'm on (ok, not often). The bigger issue for me is getting the right shells. My wife likes to kid me that the price per ounce of duck is far higher than caviar when she factors the price of guns, decoys, and shells, etc. Sheesh, it seems like a bargain to me.
I should be getting my Grade 3 top lever Parker back this year from Bachelders (once things settle down there). It also has open chokes and will get a crack at doves with some light loads I'll be cooking up.
Heck yea, get that 10 and have attum!
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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