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re: Why do people discredit the 20 gauge?
Posted on 12/11/19 at 11:51 am to keyboard_warrior9
Posted on 12/11/19 at 11:51 am to keyboard_warrior9
I don’t discredit them but you answered all the reasons in your post and follow up post, the higher pellet count of steel shot shells as well as being able to pattern large diameter pellets. Call me poor but im not paying $1 per shell for pass shooting dos Gris and water swatting pooldeaus.
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Posted on 12/11/19 at 12:37 pm to dfintlyHmmrd
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just not a man sized gun
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Don't try to make the 20 out to be adequate
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have fun killing less critters
and here we have ignorance as stated above...
I bet you go full face paint and kill the shite out of mergansers dont you
Posted on 12/11/19 at 12:42 pm to 4LSU2
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Five years ago, I purchased a single shot 20 GA with a rifled barrel to gun hunt in the Midwest.
What brand baw? I tried to find an h and r last year and had no luck
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:01 pm to keyboard_warrior9
Nothing wrong with a 20 gauge, but
that's not what we call them.
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mergansers
that's not what we call them.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:14 pm to keyboard_warrior9
I've been using my youth model 870 on Woodie shoots the last few years.
Based on how well it shot 3" #4 lead, it would be a lethal son of a gun with 3" #5 bismuth.
Can't quite go the $1+/shot on my budget.
Based on how well it shot 3" #4 lead, it would be a lethal son of a gun with 3" #5 bismuth.
Can't quite go the $1+/shot on my budget.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:16 pm to dat yat
It's pretty simple. I use:
20 Ga. for squirrels, rabbits, dove, quail, pheasant, etc.
12 Ga. for duck, geese, turkey, and buckshot for large mammals.
Of course a 20 Ga. can kill a duck, goose, or turkey but a 12 Ga. is just much better suited for it.
20 Ga. for squirrels, rabbits, dove, quail, pheasant, etc.
12 Ga. for duck, geese, turkey, and buckshot for large mammals.
Of course a 20 Ga. can kill a duck, goose, or turkey but a 12 Ga. is just much better suited for it.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:31 pm to dat yat
quote:What do you call them?
that's not what we call them.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:41 pm to AlxTgr
quote:I don't think he knows what them are.
What do you call them?
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:46 pm to Ron Cheramie
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What brand baw? I tried to find an h and r last year and had no luck
It is an H&R handi-rifle. Once I was invited on the first trip I took to Illinois, I searched slug guns at nauseam. The ONLY one in the state of LA was at Simmons Sporting Goods in Bastrop. I searched every gun store in South LA and had an epifany to call Jeff's big arse to see if he had one. Low and behold, he had 1.
I sent my Dad up there that afternoon to buy it for the cost of $175. Apparently, H&R was bought out by Remington or some other manufacturer earlier that year and is no longer producing these fine firearms. I also have one in 45-70 that is no longer used.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:53 pm to 007mag
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that's not what we call them
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What do you call them?
bans coming in 3...2...1...
Posted on 12/11/19 at 1:59 pm to NOBOTIGER
Yall have the wrong bird for that, its a cormorant not a merganser that also has a name in common with geese and people who like to steal things
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:05 pm to 4LSU2
Yeah the HR was a beast for a slug gun. Wish I had bought one years ago. They an be found, but people are proud of them
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:07 pm to keyboard_warrior9
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dont quite understand why people believe that a 20 gauge is less capable at killing a dove/duck/goose than a 12 gauge. This season, I have switched over to shooting my 20 ga for ducks and geese purely out of preference and Im amazed at the ignorant comments ive heard people say about a 20 gauge. If I shoot a Boss 3" #3 (copper platted bismuth) shooting 1350 fps out of an extra full choke that shoots a 80% pattern on a 30 inch circle in my 20 ga, how is that less effective than #2 steel traveling at 1400 fps and patterning a sub 70% pattern in a 12 gauge?
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Been shooting them this year and love them. The reason I went with bismuth is that I know steel doesnt pattern well for me in that gun and if I were shooting steel I would be at a severe disadvantage (shite patterns + alot less same sized pellets as 12 guage loads = no bueno) but a smaller shot size with a denser and more malleable metal puts me on the same playing field as a 12 gauge
You compare bismuth to steel and say that the 20 ga compares favorable and then in your next post you say you can't compare steel out of the 20 gauge.
I don't think anyone discredits the 20 gauge when used for the proper game. Using bismuth, the 20 definitely compares.
BUT If you want to know why people prefer a 12 gauge for ducks and geese you pretty much answered your own question.
and your bismuth is ~ $1.3 per shell
12 gauge steel is less than a $1 per shell.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 2:19 pm to 4LSU2
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Apparently, H&R was bought out by Remington or some other manufacturer earlier that year and is no longer producing these fine firearms
yep they are gone.
i searched high and low for one in 300BLK at a reasonable price with no luck a while back
Posted on 12/11/19 at 3:33 pm to keyboard_warrior9
I don't hunt waterfowl, but I've shot doves with a 20 ga my whole life. Never cared what people thought about it.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 3:39 pm to keyboard_warrior9
I like the 20 as a field gun because I can carry more shells without feeling overloaded. Plus the 20g. Brenneke slugs are a hammer on whitetail.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 3:54 pm to 4LSU2
I have that same H&R 20 ga slug gun and I would stretch it to 200 in the right circumstances. It shoots amazing.
I also switched to 20 ga Turkey gun this past spring. 1187 youth with tss. Killed a bird at 42 yards. I love shooting a 20 ga.
I also switched to 20 ga Turkey gun this past spring. 1187 youth with tss. Killed a bird at 42 yards. I love shooting a 20 ga.
Posted on 12/11/19 at 4:23 pm to jgthunt
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I also switched to 20 ga Turkey gun this past spring. 1187 youth with tss. Killed a bird at 42 yards. I love shooting a 20 ga.
This is something I am hearing more and more of people doing during turkey season. I imagine it's nice carrying a 20 ga around in the woods during turkey season
Posted on 12/11/19 at 4:26 pm to dfintlyHmmrd
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It's just not a man sized gun baw, if you can't handle a 12 gauge, just admit it. Don't try to make the 20 out to be adequate though, just turn in 3 man cards and have fun killing less critters
Baw, I shoot 3 1/2" 12ga CoMe At Me BrO
Posted on 12/11/19 at 6:14 pm to speckledawg
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Now the MFer shooting the 10guage across the river from me
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