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one of my long time friends and customers recently consigned his custom made 28 gauge ithaca nid repro to me for sale...this is an interesting gun from several perspectives...it has extra heavy weight barrels, which causes the balance of the gun to be forward of the hinge pin...which makes for a very nice swinging gun on the skeet range...also, this gun was specifically designed for released pheasant tower shoots, where heavy one ounce loads are needed for humane kills...the gun weighs 8 1/2 pounds... and as such does not beat you up the way a lighter gun would, after a 100 rounds or so...
keep it simple and keep it safe...
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Maybe you can find a NFL linebacker who wants a double 28. Few others would have any interest in an 8 1/2# 28 Ga. S x S.
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My first shotgun given to me was a Winchester model 12 in 28 ga., Skeet, with a case of 1 ounce loads when I was 11. I loved that gun and the 28 like it was magic. With that gun I killed more quail, dove or ducks than either of my older brothers did with their A5 or model 12 12 ga.
We hunted ducks over decoys, in a narrow creek, off a river mouth about half a mile from the Chesapeake Bay. With it I took canvasbacks, black ducks, mallards and countless smaller ducks. It was not often the cheesie had to chase down one of my wounded birds like he did for my brothers. They would just claim I missed cleanly. I think a combination of tighter chokes and heavier shot loads makes up very little for better pattern placement and not sky busting so much.
The only time my father told me not to shoot my 28 at game was the day I came home with two Cananda geese. He thought, and rightly so, that I was under gunned for geeses and would wound more if I used it again. But that day was one of those weird days you get on the marsh. We had fog on the water up to maybe five feet then clearing to clouds that were about 20 yards up. You could not see the creek or much above 20-30 yards up but could look level for a mile in any direction. Birds would drop down out of the cloud cover, within easy range and pop right back up into cover. I heard geese and started calling them as a lark. Two dropped into view and I made a perfect true pair double at about 15-20 yards. All head and neck shot which killed them like Thor's hammer. When I skinned their neck out there must have been thirty pellets in each. But back then, when a father told you not to do it again that was the end of my using a 28 for geese. And he was right. So since lead is frowned upon for ducks I'll pass on those 1 ounce loads because now I understand recoil and know a simple 3/4 or max 7/8 ounce load will take whatever I need with the 28.
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Anything but doing what logical if you need that type of load and going to a 12 gauge. I think I'll start cooking up a 22 rimfire Magnum, Magnum, Magnum(Hell we'll just call it the 22 Magnum3 that I can use for elk hunting. Anyone in the market for a nice used 300 Winchester ?? Jim
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Every now and then I see a dove shooter using 1 oz. loads for doves and I wonder why not just use a 16 or a 20? I can see the utility and versatility of a 3" 28 gauge for shooting steel shot and switching loads for all other game and using the 3/4 oz. lead load. I won't bite on it, however. Gil
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Say guys, very good points of view and lots of insight. I see and understand why the one ounce loads. Just don't see using them in my little 28s. I gave away that case of 1 oz loads to a complete stranger shooting skeet with a auto loader (1100) in 28.
The guy and his friends seemed perplexed, but after I told them how I inherited them, they were all to happy to take them off my hands.
Just find it interesting that a major sporting goods store carries more 1oz loads in 28 than 3/4oz loads.
Shoot straight. And take a youth hunting/shooting.
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I have shot various models of 28 gauge guns for hunting for years and have found the 3/4 ounce load to be more effective than the 1 ounce load. In 20 gauge I find the 7/8 ounce load and 1 ounce load to be similar in effectiveness but the 7/8 ounce kicks less for me so I use it. Riprap
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Nice to see your post Riprap. It's been a while since we've seen ya'...Geo
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[url=[URL=http://s1090.photobucket.com/user/txhuntermn/media/IMG_0573.jpg.html] [/url]]photobucket[/url] Pretty sure one of those 1 oz loads would dismantle my 4 1/2 lb london gun!!
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I know it doesn't look like much (world's smallest hen pheasant), but it was the first decent wing shot I've made in a while (w/3/4-ounce, 7 1/2s). Wrecked my L4 disc this Spring and it's been hell to get going again. Eat less and walk more is the motto of the bad-back folks, and I find walking far easier with a gun in my hand. It's even better when you get to pot a leftover bird or two at the local pet & shoot.
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