Re: LongRange LCSmiths (Parkers-Super Foxes) Archived Message
Posted by MarketHunter on June 28, 2007, 7:21 pm, in reply to "Re: LongRange LCSmiths (Parkers-Super Foxes)"
Shooting the big bore shotguns usually isn't too painful because they're so heavy. My 8 bore is a massive Churchill with 36 inch tubes and it weights about as much as a railroad iron. The empty cases you can get these days will only go out to about 3 1/4 with a rolled crimp and will only hold 2 1/2 ounces of shot. Not much more than the 2 1/4 once loads we shoot out of our magnum 10 bore guns. Just quite a bit more powder pushing it is all really. I shot driven ducks with a borrow double 4 bore down in England and it kicked about like a 20 gauge. Wasn't bad at all, just really heavy. Firing 3 ounces out of a hand turned aluminum case. The owner said he cranks it up to 3 1/2 ounces for geese and it does kick a bit with that as it raises the pressures somewhat. Going back over there in September but no big gunning this time. Northern Ireland for curlew so I'm just taking my old faithful 12 bore to serve double duty on shorebirds and a little dusking for ducks on the feed ponds. The boys said they could put me onto some partridge and pheasant but it's walked up shooting and my guess is them little skinny irishmen would walk a fat American boy like me down into the ground. I think I'll just stay with the fowl. Gotta get my buddy to whittle me a few decoys for the curlew!!! Destry
P.S. My Parker magnum 10 bore kicks a lot worse than any "big bore" shotgun I've ever fired. It's only on a #3 frame so will flat get your attention. Last day of goose season five of us killed 40 geese in the days shooting and I had a headache till the next day over it. My shoulder was fine, but the jarring it gave my noggin was a little rough.
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