Yard Sale Find, 10 ga

[Harold Pickens]

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.

[Brian H]

Nice find

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

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.

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)

[Bill Murphy]

Yard sales are a little different in West Virginial

[Harold Pickens]

Going to put this in the for sale forum

[Keith Doty]

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.

[Bill Murphy]

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.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Going to put this in the for sale forum

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'.

[Harold Pickens]

Sorry Mike, Craig Johnson has them

[Dean Romig]

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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