What is all the fuss about a ten gauge?

[Ramblin Rogue]

No offense to anyone! Every man is entitled to his particular opinion, but what is all the fuss about the 10gauge? I have been hunting my whole life with a 12 gauge. Sometimes even a 20 gauge. I have been through the
2 3/4 lead's (When Legal) all the way to the 3 1/2's but my favorite is the 3". I have never needed anything more powerful. I have killed countless timber mallards stone dead with a 20 ga. I can understand for geese but the 10 ga. guns seem to bulky, heavy, and overkill for ducks. I hunt with a 10 ga. man and when we are in the rice pit together we generally shoot at and kill the same number of birds everytime. I know all of the ballistics of the 10 compared to the 12 but give me my beretta 12 over a 10 ga. anytime. That dang 10 is looooouuuuudddd!!!

[Delta Duck]

Does anyone have a Browning Gold 10 for sell?

[judge jb]

it is a macho thing..... been there and done that.......{ and have impressed myself on an occasion or two......} there are places for the big-bore and it ain't over decoys in the timber.....but try it over the big water when all that falls is to the Roman Candles......


judge jb

[eastwoods]

I've been embarressedly put on my butt more than once in a muddy field shootin' 3 1/2s, think I'll pass on the 10, but if "you the man" that can handle it go for it, I like a clean up man in the blind.

[Bustin' Ducks]

Kind like to have one...Yes its probably an ego thing...but man sure does drop the geese!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mottlet]

Yeah, you can get better range with a 10 gauge, but that's not the best reason to use one. You see, by it's nature, the 10 gauge shell holds more pellets than a 12. That's what makes it a 10 gauge and not a 12 or 20. So, at closer ranges all those extra pellets give you a tighter pattern, even if you factor out the "flyers," than the 12 gauge'll give you. Judge is right, it may be a little overkill for the timber, but I think you might be suprised at the ability of a 10 to smack a duck HARD at 35-40 yards in a field. It's not the extra power, i.e. powder, that's killing those ducks so dead. It's the fact that they are getting swarmed by all those extra pellets.

mottlet

ps--I shoot a 3 inch 12 gauge and usually shoot 2 3/4 inch shells out of it.

[GulfCoast]

Its all about pattern density. The 10 wins there, every time. But there is no way my highly leveraged right shoulder will let me shoot a 10 any time soon.

[torch]

That's exactly why I shoot a 10. I am the Cleanup Man.