Memember the Marlin goose gun?

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Remember the Marlin Model 55 "Goose gun" with the 36-inch barrel?

I guess the theory was if you couldn't hit the goose with shot you could just swat it with the end of the barrel.

I shot my very first duck on the wing with one of those. Borrowed.

Then an eagle swooped down and picked up the duck. I just about shot that eagle. lol

Got a bufflehead later. First duck I ever brought home from hunting. That was about 45 years ago.
 
I had one in 10 ga and IMO they sucked unless one liked a single shot
Sold it after about 6 months
Super goose or something like that it was called
Cheers
 
Goose Gun was a 12 bore the Super Goose 3Macs referred to was a 10 bore. I watched my old hunting buddy make some long shots on snow geese in the early '90's with that 10 bore and 3 1/2" BB lead loads. 3Macs is right about feeding issues. My pal had a separate magazine for Winchester and one for Remington cartridges. If you mixed the shells up the gun would become a single shot. Seem some of the 12 bores made into slug guns with a shortened barrel and the addition of rifle type sights.

Darryl
 
1st shotgun was a 12 gauge Marlin Goose gun. 3" Magnums would make your vision blurry for a second or two after firing. Started shooting it in Grade 7...weighted 95 lbs when I boxed that year... don't have to wonder why I'm not recoil shy anyhow.
Dad used to shoot 'yotes from trucks with it back in the '70's...made a lot of coin with it.
As far as slow, I can remember getting a triple of mud ducks with it though.
Only feeding issues I ever encountered were when you tried to run 2 3/4" in it...of course it didn't feed right. Try stuffing 22 shorts in your 10-22 mag ( or a reasonable facsimile )... "It doesn't feed right!" .
Well, no Shyte Sherlock, LoL.
 
madtrapper143 said:
Goose Gun was a 12 bore the Super Goose 3Macs referred to was a 10 bore. I watched my old hunting buddy make some long shots on snow geese in the early '90's with that 10 bore and 3 1/2" BB lead loads. 3Macs is right about feeding issues. My pal had a separate magazine for Winchester and one for Remington cartridges. If you mixed the shells up the gun would become a single shot. Seem some of the 12 bores made into slug guns with a shortened barrel and the addition of rifle type sights.

Darryl
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Was even worse for me a left hander shooting a right hand bolt gun :(
I did hit better with the 36" because of the longer sight radius, weight and balance, plus I used a 36" on my 870 TC trap so was more in tune with what I was familiar with
So many think the 36" makes it reach out better but not the case
Cheers
 
I bought one last year , just for the nostalgia of the thing. I'm kinda partial to guns from days gone by , and things that have fallen out of favor .
It hangs out here now , with a bunch of other oldies , oddballs , and other scorned refuges from other's collections.
 
3macs1 said:
Was even worse for me a left hander shooting a right hand bolt gun :(
I did hit better with the 36" because of the longer sight radius, weight and balance, plus I used a 36" on my 870 TC trap so was more in tune with what I was familiar with
So many think the 36" makes it reach out better but not the case
Cheers
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I have read of the fact that longer barrels not grouping any better at distance. Don't shoot enough scattergun to decide anymore.
 
"reach out better" - from somewhere, I was under impression that was a real thing with black powder - longer barrel equaled more velocity. I suspect once into smokeless powder, the advantage became less sighting error - can aim more precisely the further the sights are apart from each other. I never owned either the goose gun or the super goose - was an acquaintance in former small town who used his Dad's 36" 10 gauge - he would have been about the "winner" for most bragging rights to biggest shot gun, at the time...
 
Had one quite a few years ago not the most elegant shotgun. Longer "sighting plain " more accurate. I am not very tall so carrying it muzzle down without sticking the brl. into the ground did not work for me.
 
I think they are awkward and seriously butt ugly.
However, whenever one shows up at a gun show there is always lots of interest.
Which only goes to prove that there is a customer for everything.
 
Buddy's dad brought his "Goose Gun" to the coast from Ontario in the 50's.
Kept in in the attic for many years as being a Police Officer didnt allow him much free time along with raising two boys into football and such.
Darcy shot it a few times, but never could get the hang of the cycling of the bolt for the second shot.
Brings back the memories of Imperial Shot Shells and the smells and sounds associated with hunting in the fall.
Rob
 
The first 12ga I ever shot was a Goose Gun, and paper hull Boar shells from Poland. Had an old metal garbage can lid hung off a branch in our gravel pit. Taught a youngster all about feeding and cycling issues, as well as keeping your barrel free of mud hahahaha
I’d buy one for cheap only for the nostalgia. Never did hunt with it.
 
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