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Who shoots a 10ga SXS for waterfowl?
What guns?
Do you load your own shells?
What shot weight do you put in 2 7/8" hulls? What powder?
Any steel barrel, PG, DT guns for sale out there?
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Ithaca NID 2 7/8 Alcan all brass hulls MEC steel shot wad cut to proper length #3 steel shot and no bigger over shot wad and Elmer's school glue
For skeet shooting, I use GaugeMate Silvers and shoot 12 gauge ammo
For lots of loads, PM me your email
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I do. A W.&C Scott Premier. And skeet i'd be interested in seeing your loads
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Samuel Smallwood Damascus hammer gun. 1.25 oz. bismuth over 32 gr. Longshot in Federal plastic hulls or 3.5 drams 1F in RMC brass shells. Like Skeettx, for clays I shoot 12 ga. in silver Gaugemates or Little Skeeters.
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Well, it’s not me but I was out last weekend with my friend and he was shooting an immaculate Ithaca 10 gauge with 32” barrels. Was doing a very good job of reaching out and touching those out beyond the decoy ducks.
As far as his loads go, they were hand loads of some tungsten variation. That’s all I know.
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Got a new to me Ithaca NID Grade 3, 2 7/8", 32" gun. This will be my first season with it. Have close to 100 reloaded plastic hulls on hand, loaded with 1 1/4 oz. bismuth 4s, at 1200 fps. I intend to work towards loading some with heavier charges of bismuth, and Nice shot, as time allows. These particular guns were designed to shoot a 1 5/8 oz. lead load, and I want to duplicate it with non-tox as nearly as possible. Probably will require using card wads instead of plastic shot cups. I don't think the SP10 wad will "allow" that much bismuth. Will experiment with the Versalite wads to see what they will handle.
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I have 2 Ithica's. A 1930's mag 3.5 in. 32 in. barrels with handloaded 1 7/8 bismuth 2's and buffer. Chokes f/f. The other is a 1881 damascus Crass 30" that started out life as a live pigeon gun (about 8 lbs.) now using handloaded 2 7/8 inch with 1.5 oz bismuth 4's. Original chokes light. mod/full.
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Stan, nicely engraved with what appears to be good condition. Gil
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The nice thing about many tens is that they often got little use and remain in nice shape. My grandfathers Remington short 10, BE is a high condition gun with about 90% of finish remaining. My half brother has owned it for the last 60 years and it has not fired a single shell since he stole it out from under me. Darn brothers think they ought to get what should go to the youngest and best looking grandson.
I just worked out a trade for it’s proper return to me. Traded a Farmall tractor, owned by my grandfather, for the double. With luck, I’ll be able to take it out next year for late season ducks. I think that will be the first time it will be shot since I shot it two times in 1966. Before that it had not been shot since my grandfather bought his A-5 in 1946. As close as I can figure, it has had those nine shells I shot through it in 77 years. As I say low use for any gun. I used Blue Dot powder in Federal hulls cutdown to size with roll crimp. Somewhere I’ve got a box of Alcan or Magtech brass shells I picked at a gun show. If I can find them they would make some great black powder loads, not that the Remington needs black powder, but fun is where you find it these days and shooting black powder hunting is a hoot.
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