new found love for the 10 gauge short

[charlie cleveland]

you will enjoy a parker when you get one for sure...i too hunt squirls sometimes with the 10 ga ilke no 6 shot also for them..i hunt with a claybrough and brothers 10 ga made in england..its a old hammer gun i really like it..it will kill a squirl at 50 steps every time...i hand load my short 10 shells most time roll crimp the shell..pete lesters recipe for loading a short ten is the best lite load i have ever shot in the 10 ga..its 19 grains red dot powder and 1 1/8 ounce of lead..got plenty of umph but hardly any recoil..you will have to try this load of pete s... you was talking about the 3 ounce s in the 10 ga i tried this load too but its too much for the average old double barrel..i shot the 3 oz load in a ithaca mag ten recoil was purty good and the pattern was not as good as the 2 1/4 oz loads the auto is a fullchoke gun...maybe if it had been more open choked it would have patterned the bb s i was useing in those loads...as you said useing this load in a double barrel you need to take the trigger guard off... charlie