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With some of you guys talking like the 16 ga. is the holy grail I'm suprised there is no action on the 16 in the classified section.
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Markus just could be right, he usually is. I love my 16, it's one of the most accurate smoothbore slug barrels I have as well as a great "shot" gun. My 16 guage barrel is also a full choke, the same as the barrel offered in the classifieds. Now if the barrel offered for sale was a modified choke, perhaps a couple of inches shorter (but not neccessary), and a bit cheaper, I would be all over it. I do like the 16's, they are really great classic field guns.
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MSP Ret - Maybe I'm too "Old School", but I was told to never shoot slugs out of a full choke, or for that matter out of any choke except a cylinder/improved cylinder. Doesn't the slug squeezing thru a full choke cause excessive pressure, or bad accuracy, anyway that's what I've always been told and believed. I'm always open to learning new tricks.MSP said:Markus just could be right, he usually is. I love my 16, it's one of the most accurate smoothbore slug barrels I have as well as a great "shot" gun. My 16 guage barrel is also a full choke, the same as the barrel offered in the classifieds. Now if the barrel offered for sale was a modified choke, perhaps a couple of inches shorter (but not neccessary), and a bit cheaper, I would be all over it. I do like the 16's, they are really great classic field guns.
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those foster style remington and winchester slugs shoot just fine from the full chokes as do the brennekees but you get a little more thump from them as they are much harder than the other 2. Only reason I have not bought a 16ga H&R is I am in love with my Monkey Wards 5100 Hercules SXS. And my Tracker 20 for slugs.Kurt
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As has been said the most of the newer "rifled" slugs are safe and shoot fine out of a full choked barrel. That tale (your right, it has been around a LONG time) started long ago with the solid round "pumpkin balls" that would not swage down well through a tightly choked barrel....<><....OldSchoolRanger said:MSP Ret - Maybe I'm too "Old School", but I was told to never shoot slugs out of a full choke, or for that matter out of any choke except a cylinder/improved cylinder. Doesn't the slug squeezing thru a full choke cause excessive pressure, or bad accuracy, anyway that's what I've always been told and believed. I'm always open to learning new tricks.MSP said:Markus just could be right, he usually is. I love my 16, it's one of the most accurate smoothbore slug barrels I have as well as a great "shot" gun. My 16 guage barrel is also a full choke, the same as the barrel offered in the classifieds. Now if the barrel offered for sale was a modified choke, perhaps a couple of inches shorter (but not neccessary), and a bit cheaper, I would be all over it. I do like the 16's, they are really great classic field guns.
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Markus, PHATINJUN, MSP Ret - Thanks for setting me straight, otherwise, I would have believed it for the rest of my life, and probably spread that misinformation too.
I have a stevens single-shot 16 ga. 28" barrel, full choke. Killed many a deer with it. Got it for Christmas when I was 14 yrs. old, now I'm 58 yrs. old. I don't know what model it is. It has a dog on the side where it breaks open. I use rem. sluggers and it hits where the bead it pointed, dead on the money out to 50 yds. It hits a deer like someone getting hit like a baseball bat. ;D
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That's a Stevens M940A. I've had the same gun since I was about 13 or 14 & I'm 64 now. No telling how many Squirrels & Rabbits it has taken!snuffer#1 said:I have a stevens single-shot 16 ga. 28" barrel, full choke. Killed many a deer with it. Got it for Christmas when I was 14 yrs. old, now I'm 58 yrs. old. I don't know what model it is. It has a dog on the side where it breaks open. I use rem. sluggers and it hits where the bead it pointed, dead on the money out to 50 yds. It hits a deer like someone getting hit like a baseball bat.
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My brother has an old Iver Johnson single shot 20 gauge, full choke. He got it when he was a kid probably 40 years ago. He slug-hunted with it for years and the end of the barrel finally did get a split in it about 3/4 of an inch long. He had it cut-off behind the crack prob 20 years ago. It hasn't been hunted with for years. I can remember the hammer being so hard I had to use two thumbs to get it cocked when I was a kid. It did shoot pretty accurately with slugs though.
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I have a Stevens 94C .410 sold under the Sears "J. C. Higgins" logo. I had to do the two thumbs thing myself when I was 8 or 10 (yeah Dad got me a shotgun early) and still have it and I'm 68 now. Sweet little shotgun but these Partners sure are easier to cock.digs68 said:
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It's also the price of 16 Ga ammunition. Sorry to say; Low demand = Higher price.Markus said:
It's unfortunate that more people haven't discovered it's appeal, the 16Ga is such a sweet gauge, that's why their fondly called: Sweet 16's
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