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I was referring more to northeast hunting where the typical brush gun is a lever action short barreled rifle

The Family has one in 10ga. Not nearly in that good of condition - probably hasn't been fired since the 1930s. I'm not sure I'd even want to try.....Dang thing is a BEAST.

LOL

You ain’t left the yard in 3 years🤣

I wouldn’t be surprised if Shrapnel had at least one.

Your skinnin' Griz with a 12 ga.? Better go with something from this Century. And I don't mean a 1910

The one this guy had was a modern manufactured Chiappa Firearms copy. there is a big cult for this gun where competitions are held and only Winchester 1887's are allowed to be used.

Mine is a 12ga, was bought new by my great grandfather in 1894, when it was handed to me it had not been shot since 1930 or so, I did the research and created some loads for it. It's a joy to shoot, I just hate cleaning it!

Lol, at first my uncle was horrified that I was going to shoot such an unsafe gun but after watching me shoot it he tried it and thought it was pretty damn cool he got to shoot his grandfathers gun.

All you have to do is check it out to see if it's safe to shoot if you don't have the knowledge to determine that take it to a competent gunsmith who knows old weapons and ask him to take a look at it. then do some research, create some loads and have a ball shooting it!

Keep in mind you have to make your own loads, this gun is a black powder gun only and will self destruct with modern loads.

jackasss

Pretty neat... but i do think I would prefer a better recoil pad than a piece of metal on a 70-150

With every shot you’re 3’ farther from the bear…😊

87 was 12 ga, 01 was 10.

No thanks!

Looks like a Martini action.

It pretty much is with a mag tube underneath.

The 2 most dangerous objects to put together, gunpowder and a camera...

Three's such a thing as "too much of a good thing". This would be in that category. There's a reason that Winchester didn't market them hard.

I shot Paul’s gun, it was pretty neat .

I kinda want this lol. Ive shot alot of badass guns over the years. Never have even handled one of these

Watching that literally gave me twinges in my shoulder, where that "sweet spot" is. lol

Jeez

A 300 gr slug from a 45 Colt is plenty up close

Going back to the title of this thread...if by brush gun you mean a cartridge that shoots through intervening branches, limbs, twigs etc with a minimum of deflection...big heavy slow bullets are losers.
Back in the days when the American Rifleman actually had stuff about guns, loading and actual tests...a couple nationally respected writers and shooters, I'm thinking Ken Waters may have been one of the culprits, decided to validate the term, brush buster once and for all. So they took a nice broad selection of commonly used eastern cartridges and some outliers and proceeded to shoot through 1/8" veneer placed at various angles to the line of bullet travel onto a standard target behind the veneer.
Contrary to their expectations, big heavy slow bullets deflected more than fast smaller bullets. I don't recall all the details, but the clear winners by a huge margin were cartridges like the .22-250, and .243...fast movers anyway. Unfortunately they didn't include any magnum velocity cartridges in any diameter..so we don't really know if resistance to deflection is a velocity driven factor...or cross sectional area factor or both.