This is not the first time we have heard the singing of praises and accolades for the 28 bore gun. It has now reached magic wand status among many shooters...
Over a 100 years ago, Englishmen, after some experimentation and contemplation, determined the ideal shooting combination to be a 12 bore gun with the barrels jointed together side by side and throwing an ounce of shot. And of course, those across the channel determined otherwise; settling on the 16 bore as the ideal...Meantime, here in the former colonies, the big 10 bore gun was all the rage...
A lot has changed since then. Ammo, perhaps the most. The guns are pretty much the same idea, except now we have the barrels joined one on top of the other, with origins in some perverse Belgian inspired illusion to soft pornagraphy. We are pretty much the same, except there are more of us now. The birds are the same, except there are less of them now...Which is probably because there are more of us...
But what else? Why is the 28 gauge gun suddenly so far superior now, than say, 30 years ago?
Last edited by ed good; 08/17/20 09:50 AM.
