Show your Ten Gauges

[Gordon]

I'll go first. Here is my old AyA 10 gauge 3 1/2" mag goose gun that had 32" full choke chrome lined barrels when new in 1966. It now has 20" barrels with casting lead poured into the cavity exposed when the barrels were cut down . About 8 .Oz of lead as I remember. The balance is excellent and it weighs just over ten pounds now . I don't shoot it alot anymore. IM OLD, AND A SMALL CRACK FORMED PARTIALLY ALONG THE WRIST NEAR THE TANG. I killed a few things with it. I shot a coyote trying to squeeze into the chicken coop about 100 feet away and the Cloud of #4 buck shot rolled him. I shot another coyote going after a young goat at about thirty yards with one shot but it's partner escaped as after I fired my second barrel it rolled and kept running. I HIT IT ABOUT 150 FEET OUT. I started using #1 buck shot after that. I used to keep it loaded with 00 buck shot and high up on top of a living room curtain valence out of sight for intimidating home defense. Not any more. tho , it was up there for about 15 years and even the teenagers before they left home never knew. With rifled slugs this is like a big double elephant gun and blows up cement blocks or knocks big holes thru 4-6" cement walls with 1 3/4 .oz Federal 3.5" slugs. The big white front bead I put on the barrel is well enough centered to do its job.
I have two more 10 ga. Guns my current turkey and geese gun : a Browning BP 10 pump and a 14" Pedersoli double muzzle loader. I'll show them after you show yours. I had an Ithaca Road Blocker 30 years ago but by mid 90s I sold it to buy the BP10 BP10.

 

[bearman49709]

You sure that's not a Browning Bp10?

 

[Gerd33]

Picked up this Ithaca Mag 10 about 20yrs ago and used it for our October Fall Turkey season, or scouting for deer with a shotgun as I called it, a few times.
The one in the pic flew down out of the trees it was roosting in and landed about 30yrds in front of me just after I sat down. I didn't get much scouting done that day as I was only in the woods for about 30min.

 

[Gordon]

You sure that's not a Browning Bp10?

uh Duhhhhhh you are correct .

 

[AWS]

Mine, English upland 10ga 2 7/8" chambers, built in the 1870's., I have it pictured above a Hungarian 12ga upland shotgun.

The barrels are right at 28" and weighs under 8 lbs. Yes, I do shoot it.

 

[MacAR]

The barrels are right at 28" and weighs under 8 lbs. Yes, I do shoot it.

Sharp old gun! Best I remember, 2 7/8ths 10 gauge doesn't rock you too badly; about like a heavy game load in a normal 12. Do you load your own for it or use a commercial load like RST?

Mac

 

[jags]

I have a Remington SP10. Goose and turkey slaying machine. Got a few coyotes with it to.

 

[silicosys4]

Hoping someone posts an Ithaca Roadblocker.

 

[Roverguy]

Somebody has a Matador. Show us that Sears-AyA late Sixties goodness! It may have been a fairly bad gun but it’s got period styling

 

[AWS]

I reload for it, converted a mec 20ga to load the short 10's. I have 10 brass hulls that I load BP loads for it also.

 

[Riomouse911]

I never had a 10 gauge. Many years ago I did see a Mag-10 Roadblocker standing up in a gun store used gun rack, the thing looked like an absolute brute. I wasn’t in the market for one, so I didn’t ask to handle it. (I think they weigh about 10 pounds?)

Stay safe.

 

[tightgroup tiger]

My uncle had a 10 ga double barrel when I was a kid, He was a big man and was standing on stump shooting at a turkey with it, He accidently pulled both triggers and down off the stump he came backwards. We laughed our asses off.
He didn't!
That was the last time I saw that 10 ga, no one else would shoot it after that. Don't know what ever happened to it.

The vision of that happening was forever ingrained in my mind, I will never own one.