The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

nice 10 ga s they are my favorite guns...i have a few short tens a parker hammerless p grade 10 2 early lifter 10 s a lefever e grade 10 hammerless a calybourne hammer 10 a d h grade parker 10 a ithaca mag ten....the pictures of the shells with the 10 ga was a neat picture i see some of them were ajax heavies what was the dark blue or black shell....charlie

The red hulls are Climax heavies - the black ones say Climax on the brass and DuPont on the over shot card

The calls are an F Allen, a Ditto and an unmarked tongue pincher

[Dean Romig]

Originally Posted by Rick Losey

The calls are an F Allen, a Ditto and an unmarked tongue pincher

Whaa...?






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[TxHuntermn]

Here is a plebe question. I recently acquired a 3 frame TA Damascus 10, in the 58,000 range with heavy barrels. Is it a given that it is a short 10? Or were there 10’s of that era meant to shoot the big stuff?

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Mark Ray

Here is a plebe question. I recently acquired a 3 frame TA Damascus 10, in the 58,000 range with heavy barrels. Is it a given that it is a short 10? Or were there 10’s of that era meant to shoot the big stuff?

It should be a short ten. There were longer chambers on a few. But the extra length was for wads to improve the pattern. Not to shoot Roman candles in them

[OH Osthaus]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

Whaa...?

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That's duck hunters for ya

[Dean Romig]

Take a steel machinist's rule and measure the chambers. There's a very good possibility, probability yet, that the chambers have the rim at the front of the chamber rather than a forcing cone.






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[TxHuntermn]

Gotcha..and am expecting short chambers........just kind of wondering when the big stuff started showing up...

[OH Osthaus]

but still- even if the chambers are longer - the pressures it was designed for were not higher.

the modern 3 1/2 was introduced about 1932

[Steve Hastie]

Parker Short ten A very nice weapon, With the season just recently started over here, been out a couple of times, still yet to be used to date.

[Jeff Christie]

I killed two nice Canadas last evening with a wonderful but well used EH. RST Bismuth #2s hammered them. One was about 45 yds, the other about 35. They just folded up and were DOA upon impact. Unfortunately it was not a double. I was very lucky on both shots. Now if I can just figure out how to post pictures.