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Originally Posted by Pete Lester
Steve, reloading for the short ten is the only way to go if you are going to shoot any volume of shells through one. Just yesterday I hit 1800 2 7/8" 10 ga shells through a Parker NH since Fall 2010 shooting crows. Then there are many rounds of trap ans skeet and a bunch of non-tox loads at waterfowl.
My 1 1/4 ounce lead shot, low pressure reloads in 10ga cost me about $8 per 25. My savings though reloading the short ten is significant.
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J.B. am I understanding that you took 1800 shots with your 10 at crows? Wow! You really
do like that gun!
I'm still limping along with my 12s and usually only spitting 1 oz of #8s, but not a crows!
Here we don't have crows, we have ravens, a bigger bird. Ravens are smart. They'll let you walk up on them unless you have a gun in your hand, then they'll fly at 400 yards.
Do you think that a 1 1/4 load in a 10 is better, shoots better patterns, than a similar load in a 12?
Of course shooting guns that we think are fun to shoot is what it is all about. I shoot 16s just to be different...10s would be even more so. LOL