10 Gauge, A View from the Past

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by todd allen

I had bought one of the Ithaca Mag 10s back in the 80s. I hand-loaded for it, and developed some pretty effective long range waterfowl loads. Had lots of fun with that gun. But that was back when I was a big, strong kid, and not much affected by recoil.
When shooting a 10-mag, you definitely would not want to have your back resting against an unmovable object. The gun is going to travel backwards, and either your body moves, or it gets mashed a bit.

I had a pair of the Ithaca semi auto 10’s inbthe last ten years a field grade and a DeLuxe . Also had a Browning BPS 10 one of these days I’ll get an Ithaca NID Mag 10 but the desire isn’t as great as it used to be . When I patterned that SP-10 I was a stock crawler to the Nth degree to the point that my nose was against/beside my thumb . At the first shot my eyes watered and I immediately felt beneath my nose and it was wet I “assumed” it was blood and after stomping around a bit I looked at my hand , that gun had literally knocked the SNOT out of me . Next couple shots as you can bet my nose was not against my thumb . Had a somewhat similar incident when I was working up loads for a friends 505 Gibbs only that wasn’t my nose the bolt handle got me in the web of the hand .