No it wasn't. According to the presentation Charlie Price did on gauges for the PGCA 7th Annual Meeting & Conference in Cleveland, 21 July 2001, 10-gauge production peaked in the 1881 to 1885 time frame at 44% of production while 12-gauge was 54% in that period. After that 10-gauge production dropped off steeply and after 1900 it was 1% or less.
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