How many run a 10 gauge in the field?

[teal101]

There is no reason anybody needs to shoot a 10 ga. If you need a 10 ga. than you are not a hunter,you are a shooter and should stay home.

What a stupid thing to say.


I have a ten gauge but I don't use it much. Ammo selection is poor and it's hard to find chokes for it. It also weighs a ton. With the payload a 12 ga. 3 1/2" you really don't gain much from a ten gauge except for maybe better patterning due to the bigger bore diameter.

They usually have longer barrels and a higher pellet count as well.  I know pass shooting geese at Stratford I've killed geese with a 20 gauge shooting #2's and a 10 Gauge shooting F's.  Use what ya got.  I know that 10 puts a wallop on them geese.

[macattack2]

Sorry guys,didnt mean to upset anybody.Its just that in 46 years of hunting i never saw a need to go to a bigger gun,when steel came along we just changed our lead and let them get closer.40 years have been with the same 3inch 12ga. 870.

[h2ofowlr]

Snow's like to glide when hit and with all the BS on the island, if your set up on deeks they glide to the next set and get dropped.  If hunting the dike area they turn to the bay.  I like to break both wings and kill them at the same time.  They drop like rocks.  Picked up a case of Black Cloud 10 gauge loads.  They worked great last year.  Nearly no cripples.  The 3-1/2" Rem. 870 sits in the closet, I now use the auto loaders for shooting the 3-1/2" or 3" as the loads have increased speed which have also increased the kick.  No need for bruised shoulders.

[CP]

Off topic but –

Last year I hit a snow that glided into the set next to me and they down it (they probably expended ten bucks worth of ammo doing so).  I wrote that bird off and went on with the hunt.  Later when I was packing out one of the hunters from that field pulled up and offered me the wayward bird. 

Just goes to show that not everyone hunting the island is an a-hole.

[Big10gauge]

Of course I do, Been using one or another 10 ga for over 30 years, Maybe some guys just don't have the strength to swing one I guess.