The Short Ten - How many shooting one?

[GH-16]

Originally Posted by Noel McCormack

J.B.- I shoot my 1884 grade 2 10 gauge, SN 41762. Works well on Canada Geese with hand-loaded 1 1/8 oz ITX #2s propelled by 30 grains of IMR SR 7625

You're a lucky man to have some SR-7625. I will be shooting my NH Parker using ITX-original-10 #2 shot this fall myself. I ended up picking a recipe out the ITX manual using 44gr's blue dot & 1 3/8oz ITX #2

I shot some of these this week. I think they are going to be deadly on sandhill cranes this fall.

[StubTwist]

Originally Posted by Paul Ehlers

You're a lucky man to have some SR-7625. I will be shooting my NH Parker using ITX-original-10 #2 shot this fall myself. I ended up picking a recipe out the ITX manual using 44gr's blue dot & 1 3/8oz ITX #2

I shot some of these this week. I think they are going to be deadly on sandhill cranes this fall.

Hi Paul, what pressure and velocity is this load? Have you patterned it?

[Jeff Christie]

Last year was my rookie year with my EH on geese. Love it. Got three. It's a stitch to shoot. Lots of grins. I'll try to post a picture or two. I'm not good at that.

[Steve Hastie]

Yep Add me to your list, a great Wildfowling piece, use it on the ducks and Geese and sometimes I have a bash on the clays.
Sundodger
From over the Pond

[GH-16]

Originally Posted by Frank Cronin

Hi Paul, what pressure and velocity is this load? Have you patterned it?

The ITX manual states the load is supposed to be 1200fps @ 7300psi. I haven't extensively pattern tested the load, but I did shoot a 30"x30" piece of cardboard at 40 yards with it the other day. I counted 125 pellet hits out of the approximately 145 pellets in the load. I'm sure it will be effective on the larger fowl like cranes & geese.

[charlie cleveland]

i would say that your gun is a full choke throwing them kinds of patterns..the short ten is good on anything flying and most animals that walk.....steve glad you fellas like the short ten too...but i guess this round was used first by you fellows on the other side of the pond...charlie

[8GAUGE]

I shoot a grade 3 lifter with 28" factory length barrels. Fabulous gun. If truth be told...the 10 bore is the magic gauge. The old timers knew this very well. Then someone said a hunting double needed to be light. What a crock! Once you shoot a 10 you won't want to shoot anything else. Just my opinion of course.

[Richard Flanders]

I took my grade 2 10ga hammer gun to a pheasant preserve here in Alaska and had a ball. I let my friend Trigg try it. He had never shot a 10ga, and maybe not a hammer gun, and dusted a pheasant with the first shot. It seemed almost too easy to hit pheasants with that gun.

[8GAUGE]

That has been my experience exactly!

[Alan B. Webber]

Originally Posted by thaynedelange

I shoot a grade 3 lifter with 28" factory length barrels. Fabulous gun. If truth be told...the 10 bore is the magic gauge. The old timers knew this very well. Then someone said a hunting double needed to be light. What a crock! Once you shoot a 10 you won't want to shoot anything else. Just my opinion of course.

Your right. 10's are the most fun. I shoot short 10 RST 1/1/4 oz 7.5 loads at ZZTrap once in a while with my d grade #6 frame guns (hammerless and hammer) and though the loads are pretty slow they bust the plastic real well. 41/4 drams of black powder (Track of the Wolfe CNC machined brass cases)with about 1 1/4 oz of lead (or bismuth)are really deadly on ducks and geese (and a real crowd pleaser). 3 1/2 " 1 3/8 oz of steel in my D grade #3 frame are the deadliest. You can easily kill a mallard, goose or driven pheasant at 70 yards if you can reconcile the lead you have to give them. The 3.5" gun does kick. I can't do 1 5/8 oz anymore although I just put an ISIS pad on it for the coming duck season so we'll see.
By the way a great way to clean a lot of the soot out of your black powder barrels after a days shelling is to shoot a couple of final smokeless loads through them. It doesn't take nearly as much soap and water after that.