LC Smith 10 gauge

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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

for some reason in the old days seems like the factorys loaded the ten ga in mostly 0 buck or no 1 buck..of the buckshot shells in my collection in ten ga this is what i mostly have which is few...i ve loaded the 000 buck in the short ten it holds 8 of them it really patterns good at 40 yards...i ve shot several deer with no 4 buck in the 3 1/2 inch ten i believe there is 54 pellets in a shell...theres 27 no 4 buck in a 12 ga 2 3/4 inch loading so a short ten should be ok with 27 to 30 no 4 buck... i ve seen several boxes of ten ga 3 1/2 inch in 0 loadings by winchester and also no3 buck in the big ten...these boxes of buck was loaded around the late 30 s to late 50 s..as every body knows there not been any short ten buckshot loaded in years but they do load the 3 1/2 inch in 00 buck and no 4 buck and these are loaded by federal..i have not seen any winchester or remington loaded buckshot in a few years... charlie

I have 3 or 4 boxes of WIN 3 1/2" 00 Buck at the shop someone brought in for me to sell .

I seem to remmember seeing Remington 2 7/8" birdshot shells still being made into the late 70's . Grandfather shot them in the W&C Scott 10 I have now . At the time that was his dove gun .

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I am hoping me forend will return for the LC this coming week !

After that I'll try the firing pin on some primed empty hulls . IF all goes well I think I'll shoot a couple more patterns with 00 , #1 and #4 Buck at 25 yards .

[charlie cleveland]

i bet they shoot mighty close at 25 yards... i dont know why but it always seem like the deer are just at the outer limits of my buckshot loads.. charlie

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

i bet they shoot mighty close at 25 yards... i dont know why but it always seem like the deer are just at the outer limits of my buckshot loads.. charlie

Dunno I've shot quite a few 24 of 25 rounds at skeet using that old Scott shooting both 1 1/4 ounce handloads of #8's and a couple times with 70's Remington Shur Shot #4's factory loads .

[charlie cleveland]

thats some good shooting ther with that old ten... i ve never shot a round of skeet in my life thers no body around my parts that into shooting much...i ve shot my fair share of dr pepper cans though and paper targets...but i do believe i would enjoy skeet and trap shooting.... charlie

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

thats some good shooting ther with that old ten... i ve never shot a round of skeet in my life thers no body around my parts that into shooting much...i ve shot my fair share of dr pepper cans though and paper targets...but i do believe i would enjoy skeet and trap shooting.... charlie

When I piggie hunted in southeast Arkansas in 2012 those guys in AR and the ones from Greenville MS all said the same thing , no skeet or trap clubs around there !

I suspect there are atleast some Sporting Clays Ranges close by that they're not aware of but I honestly don't know !

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We used to have what they call 50/50 shoots between the area gunclubs for fun in the winter time . They were two rounds of skeet and two rounds of trap most folks used two different guns . At that time I shot both competitively and used seperate barrels on my old Krieghoff K-32 .

If I were still going to those shoots now I would most likely carry that W&C especially if it were a SxS shoot or if you were only allowed a single gun for both !

We have awobble motor on one of the trap machines . It's kinda fun to shoot Jap Wobble Trap also !
For that one you use the wobble trap in the trap house and shoot from the skeet stations . The killer of the game is you cannot leave a station until you break a bird . So technically you could burn up your whole 25 shells on station one !

Best I've ever done at that was 19 stations before I was out of shells, so I missed 6 times in that round .

If you spend alot of time around gunclubs you eventually see the uhm "difference of opinion" between skeet guys and trap guys !

Kinda like duck hunters versus quail/grouse hunters .

I shot both shotgun games ALOT and always figured if I could see the target I could break the target . When we got to doing Jap Wobble Trap some of the skeet guys would get all pissy as well as some of the trap guys . It was always fun to go out and shoot with those guys and add a little wager into the equation . I typically shot a SxS or a field grade O/U and generally I took their money !

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I am planning on going to the range wednesday and if the forend comes back for my LC Smith 10 gauge I'll cart that one out to try the new firing pin and some more buckshot patterns at 25 yards . Have 3 loaded with 12 pellets of 00 Buck , 2 loaded with 16 pellets of #1 Buck and 2 loaded with 32 pellets of #4 Buck .

I also am going to take my Philly Fox Sterlingworth 12 guage and try some old Remington 2 3/4" Foster slugs at 25 and 50 yards .

[charlie cleveland]

sounds like you mean business with them buckshot loads...i think you will be impressed by the no 4 buck it usally patterns pretty tight with a gun with some choke... i ve not got to try the lc smith yet ive been trying to get some grass and bushes knocked down.. not to many of us into buckshot i wonder if bill ever tryed out that parker shotgun that was bored for buckshot..bill what kinda choke you reckon your guns got... charlie

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by charlie cleveland

sounds like you mean business with them buckshot loads...i think you will be impressed by the no 4 buck it usally patterns pretty tight with a gun with some choke... i ve not got to try the lc smith yet ive been trying to get some grass and bushes knocked down.. not to many of us into buckshot .

I actually already tried the #4 Buck in the W&C Scott as well as my Ithaca NID . And they did well enough for 25-30 yards or so I thought .

I meant to get the bush hog on the back of my John Deere last month and like the last several years it's almost september before I get around to it !

I have maybe 2 miles of trails on my 67 acres to open before archery season . Thankfully I have the one hang on already up as well as two ladder stands so all I need to do is hang three climbers and I'm done !

I always keep an extra climber on my ATV in case I wanna try a new spot quickly . Also use that one on the Blackwater NWR in Maryland two times a year .