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Originally Posted by Destry L. Hoffard
A 10 gauge on a #2 frame is about as useful as tits on a boar in my opinion. You couldn't shoot heavy waterfowling loads in it, it would beat you to death. I've got one on a #3 frame and it still kicks like a mule with 3 1/2 inch shells. I'd imagine a #2 with heavy 2 7/8 shells would be just as bad or worse.
Remington marked a lot of the 3 inch 12 gauge guns on the barrel lug. Makes them pretty easy to spot. Plus the barrels on at least some of them have an odd contour to add meat to the chambers so that's another quick tell. I hear there's one for sale at the Vintagers with a heavy price tag if anybody wants to check it out and give a report.
Destry
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Thanks Destry- I get shots on mallards and Canadas under 25 (est'd) yards- But let's take a 1 & 3/8 load of either steel or non-toxic shot- push it at the same fps. through a .730" dia tube, then move it up to an 11 gauge (.750) and then to a true 10 gauge (.775")- just as moving fluids through a pipe, the larger the I.D. of that pipe (with appropriate wall thickness) the more eficient the flow- comparing liquids to modern plastic wads and buffered loads is not "apples to apples" of course, but still--
If I were lucky enough to own a ejector 10 Parker with 32" steel barrels (regardless of frame size- the number 2 was arbitrary) I would shoot in it custom loads comparable to a 3" 12 magnum. I only use the 3" 12 loads in the late Winter "bonus season" when the geese have heavier "armor plating". But I will yield to your expertise in the 10 bore realm, Suh- as I never have owned one (yet)--