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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!!!

Does anyone have a Browning Gold 10 for sell?

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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