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Unread 07-27-2019, 09:43 PM   #1
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if i ever had a set of 40 inch barrels on a 12 ga it would have been with me till death to us part.....charlie
LoL. Tell you this much: I have some idea what it’s like for a porn star to show up at the set. Every time I showed up at the first station and all
The other shooters couldn’t keep their eyes off my barrels.
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LoL. Tell you this much: I have some idea what it’s like for a porn star to show up at the set. Every time I showed up at the first station and all
The other shooters couldn’t keep their eyes off my barrels.
I wish someone would take such a gun quail hunting
Would be a challenge swinging barrels like that in the bush .

was it real front heavy ?
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I wish someone would take such a gun quail hunting.
Would be a challenge swinging barrels like that in the bush .
It would be more of a challenge to get permission to use such a weapon at all on many quail lodges or plantations. Most would not allow it.





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It would be more of a challenge to get permission to use such a weapon at all on many quail lodges or plantations. Most would not allow it.





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I think your are mostly right , I think it would really depend though .
We would pretty much meet any request of our guests . We even hunted quail during a storm once because they wanted to stay out in the field a bit longer lol.
One of the plantations someone mentioned in another thread , their website said they would allow any gauge . I doubt they imagined someone showing up with a 40" 12 ga or a 8 gauge for quail . I wonder if anyone here has used the short 10 ga for quail ? The standard load most of our guests used was the cheap rios in 20 ga and #7.5 shot I think it was . However one time we had some boxes of #9s get mixed into the case and they resulted in a higher kill ratio . So they were arguing with each other who was going to get to use the rest of the #9 loads .

The quail hunting landscape here has greatly changed since last year because of the hurricane we lost a great deal of pine trees . So now the quail hunting areas are alot more wide and open .





Has anyone had a set of W.&C. Scott damascus barrels refinished ?
I would think they would come out looking pretty nice like the American barrels .
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It would be more of a challenge to get permission to use such a weapon at all on many quail lodges or plantations. Most would not allow it.
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I think if i booked a hunt and rolled in one of those joints with a short barrel 10 and my 1 1/8 ounce handloads they can suck the hind tit or give me a FULL refund .
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I think if i booked a hunt and rolled in one of those joints with a short barrel 10 and my 1 1/8 ounce handloads they can suck the hind tit or give me a FULL refund .
Thats one way to put it lol but pretty much this , If thats what the client wanted than we would oblige them . Maybe if they used longer guns they would have better muzzle awareness . Ive seen one guest accidentally shoot someones house who bordered the plantation . Then again we did have 3,800 acres I have no idea why the game guide wanted to hunt on the perimeter of the land .

Are your handloads similair to the RST 1 1/8 oz ?
Thats all I ever shot in my short 10s . A very low kicking load and if I get another 10 ga will order some more in different shot sizes this time .

Some of these quail hunts especially in my area I think are around 2,000$+ a day with a 8 person party required .
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Are your handloads similair to the RST 1 1/8 oz ?
Thats all I ever shot in my short 10s . A very low kicking load and if I get another 10 ga will order some more in different shot sizes this time .
I'd say mine just might be lighter then RST . 18.6 grains of Red Dot pushing 1 1/8 ounces and a handful of spacers does not make a barn burner thumper load .
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I'd say mine just might be lighter then RST . 18.6 grains of Red Dot pushing 1 1/8 ounces and a handful of spacers does not make a barn burner thumper load .
Are they sub sonic being such a lite load ? I think the RSTs are around 1150 fps ? Ive always wondered how or if transonic flight affects bb's and round balls like it does conical projectiles .

I never put any of the RSTs up against a patterning board to see how they actually perform . I know they worked very well on squirrels though .
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