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My goose dropping ends on the 9th. After that, I have a SBE2 you can use. I wouldn't buy a shotgun for one trip.
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Couple notes - If your pre-steel shotgun is important to you than don't risk shooting steel through it. It might very well be just fine but I have seen a couple barrels bulge towards the muzzle. IIRC one was a fixed full choke and the other was a modified. I would suggest borrowing one proofed for steel.
I've seen a couple of guns with the same thing, one is my next-door neighbor with whom I've hunted ducks for over fifty years. He still uses the gun with the bulged barrel. I'm not sure at what point the bulge was noticeable, it was nothing sudden.
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My preferred snow goose gun is a Browning Gold 10 shooting HeviShot #4s through a Mod choke.
Shooting a 2 3/4 inch gun with large steel shot is going to hinder your pattern density.
Steel patterns tighter than lead. Big steel patterns even tighter. In a 1 1/16th oz load of steel from a 2 3/4 inch hull you're probably only going to have 85 pellets shooting BBs.
I'd try and borrow a 3 inch Gas operated semi 12 if I were you. 3 inch #2s in a 1 1/4 oz load will be just fine on snows.
Your mind is your primary weapon. Never let it get rusty.
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So, how many more BBs you get with that extra 3/16 oz.....
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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If my calculation is right, 3/16 oz =13.54 BB's
Last edited by ST50; 02/03/16.
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Not enough for me to get overly excited on a one time hunt...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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