Repro Chamber Length

[Double Lab]

Robert;
With all due respect I've been hunting waterfowl here on the Chesapeake Bay for well over 45yrs at least 2 times per week plus trips out to the western states to hunt pothole ducks, so I feel I'm somewhat qualified to say this. I do not shoot steel, I either shoot bismuth or tungsten matrix, which is very effective and I make it a point to be the best shot I can be. That is only achieved by burning alot of powder all year long and not by relying on a roman candle load. The art of waterfowling is about decoying birds to within reasonable range and then making a clean kill. I detest "
skybusters". You can shoot what you like but I'll stick by my original statement that 3" loads are not needed and are not as efficient as a 2 3/4" load. That is a ballistic reality. If you want to shoot a load that heavy go to a 10ga. which can handle that much shot. In shotgun shooting sometimes less is more but we Americans just have to have our 3 1/2" cannons to kill a 4lb. duck or 12lb. goose. Don't even get me started about those folks who think they need #4's or 5's to kill a pheasant and this new generation of turkey loads that could bring down a Cessna. Have a nice day

[Duckman]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Robert;
With all due respect I've been hunting waterfowl here on the Chesapeake Bay for well over 45yrs at least 2 times per week plus trips out to the western states to hunt pothole ducks, so I feel I'm somewhat qualified to say this. I do not shoot steel, I either shoot bismuth or tungsten matrix, which is very effective and I make it a point to be the best shot I can be. That is only achieved by burning alot of powder all year long and not by relying on a roman candle load. The art of waterfowling is about decoying birds to within reasonable range and then making a clean kill. I detest "
skybusters". You can shoot what you like but I'll stick by my original statement that 3" loads are not needed and are not as efficient as a 2 3/4" load. That is a ballistic reality. If you want to shoot a load that heavy go to a 10ga. which can handle that much shot. In shotgun shooting sometimes less is more but we Americans just have to have our 3 1/2" cannons to kill a 4lb. duck or 12lb. goose. Don't even get me started about those folks who think they need #4's or 5's to kill a pheasant and this new generation of turkey loads that could bring down a Cessna. Have a nice day

I most heartily agree. Even though I own the gun pictured above with 3" chambers in both barrel sets, I have never fired a 3" shell in either. I am closer to 50 years of ducking and goosing at age 63 and could count on one hand the boxes of 3 inch shells I have fired. For most of that time I never had a gun capable of firing 3 inch shells. I like my 28 ga repro over decoys with #5 or #6 bismuth. When that runs out I will use nice shot. I load that for use in the 16 and 12 bores.
and just for fun... here is a 16 bore non-Parker I own with results of 1 oz of #5 nice shot.
No offense meant to those preferring the bigger stuff. It is indeed a country of choices.

[Bill Murphy]

I will continue to use my 1 3/4 ounce ten gauge steel loads as long as they last for general waterfowling. I own a trainload of the stuff and it cost me about five bucks a box. Of course, I don't shoot it in original Parkers, but the price and effectiveness is my criteria. When I can't handle the ten in the field, (like recently), I will go to expensive no tox 2 3/4" loads and shoot the Parkers.