10 gauge shotgun - Does it serve a purpose

The 10 can still push more shot at higher velocity with lower pressures. It's a bigger shell and the 12 can't defy physics so that will always be the case.
 
They're often on the EE. While you're there you can look for chokes and accessories.

Keep your hulls, even if you don't reload someone else will be very happy to barter for them
 
Browning is the only source for new. Browning gold for semi. Browning bps for pump. Ithaca and the rem copy can be found used. There's also used sxs and the odd ou on the used market.

I shoot a sxs and a pump in 10ga
 
i had a couple of young lads helping on the farm and some geese came in. they wanted to borrow a gun and i handed them an ithaca ten guage along with some advice. they got their goose and are now dedicated geese hunters. the one lad now has his own ten guage side by side double. there is nothing quite like firing a ten , a distinctive sound and great results.my son has laid claim to mine when i am done with it.
 
hsatimmy said:
I can't often convince people to try it, 12 GA is often enough recoil for them.

10 GA slugs aren't forgiving depending on your build
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I find heavy shot loads much worse than the only slug load I have ever found, the Federal 1 3/4oz slug. I am not big on punishing recoil but I am an extremely seasoned shooter, Remington 2 1/4oz 4x6 duplex shells have me tapping out after 5 shells or so. I usually stopped shooting the slugs when my headache started.

I still have a few hundred rounds of lead 10g but no gun to shoot them. Been looking for an AYA O/U for years with no luck. Found a guy offering a great deal but he ghosted before the deal was done... One day, maybe...
 
A friend of mine hunts Coyotes with his . buckshot . he said it just bowl's them right over . something like 54 pellets in a shell ?
 
Thomas D'Arcy McGee said:
I suspect with a 12 gauge firing a 3.5 magnum you essentially have a 10 gauge. Comments?
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You get similar payloads, sure. The rest has been covered pretty well. Less velocity, higher pressure (more recoil) and patterns are typically significantly bigger due to more stacking of the shot column with the 12. Those differences may or may not stack and may not even be noticeable. I can't say I have compared them directly in any scientific manner.
 
Thomas D'Arcy McGee said:
I suspect with a 12 gauge firing a 3.5 magnum you essentially have a 10 gauge. Comments?
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I have spent a lot of time money and years on both gauges way back to the lead and early steel days . The 12 3.5 is OK but it is not a 10 or ever will be . The only 3.5 that comes close is The Mossberg 935 as it has 10 gauge barrel specs as stated only close. A lot of 12 gauge 3inch loads will pattern better than the 3.5.
 
Thomas D'Arcy McGee said:
I suspect with a 12 gauge firing a 3.5 magnum you essentially have a 10 gauge. Comments?
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10ga will almost always throw a better more uniform pattern with a denser core than a 12ga throwing the same #### weight. 10s are built on bigger frames which reduces recoil and muzzlerise and helps keep the gun moving thru the shot which adds to faster follow up shots
When pass shooting geese or reaching out for the divers on the far side of the dekes the 10 just out performs the 12s.
 
for those of you thinking that the tens recoil is punishing i can say my ithaca semi is a soft shooting gun. it is heavy. i am thinking 11 pounds or so and a gas gun. it has less recoil than a pump 12 gauge.
 
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