16 gauge ammo

Big Bad said:
Well thanks a lot, now I have a burning desire to own a 16 gauge DBL. And paper shells again. And a dog again. All your fault. :)
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Nothing like it :) I don't know but for me it just brings back such great memories and maybe that is a huge part of it
I can almost hear my grandfather, boy be careful with that gun and for god sake stop picking up and sniffing those empty hulls you are going to make your self sick :)
I have never not owned a 16ga normally quite a few of them as well as all the other gauges but if I had to keep just one it would be a 16ga especially now that one can fire steel shot out of the newer ones
Cheers
How can a man not have a couple of these :)
 
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16's declined in popularity while 20's rose because 16's were not and are not part of the shooting sports games. The result of that was that for cost effective reasons, as demand dropped, the manufacturers started making 16's on 12 gauge frames, so what 16's were being offered had no real weight/size advantage over a 12.

It's those related issues that have made the 16 the choice of a small number of truly discriminating aficionados.
 
I'd shoot my 16 more if I wasn't getting hosed on ammo and could find wads to reload. Until then my 12 gauge will have to do.
 
There is no magic in the 16 gauge bore diameter. A suitably choked 20 gauge will provide equivalent patterns.
Assertions to the contrary cannot be demonstrated at the pattern board.
One ounce of shot from my Beretta 20 gauge is just as deadly as one ounce from my 16 gauge AyA.
 
saskbooknut said:
There is no magic in the 16 gauge bore diameter. A suitably choked 20 gauge will provide equivalent patterns.
Assertions to the contrary cannot be demonstrated at the pattern board.
One ounce of shot from my Beretta 20 gauge is just as deadly as one ounce from my 16 gauge AyA.
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Ok. You know. Where did you read that. See I don't read normally I roll my own in both of the gauges you mention and know the difference
Try that 20ga with a load of No.4 lead or better some steel BB against a 16ga and see what your paper looks like for patterns the word equivalent is not there
Even old chucky agrees and looks like browning listened in 2016
http://www.chuckhawks.com/16_gauge_wakeman.htm
Like I say to each their own but I have seen differently on this one but in the big picture who really cares. you are happy and so am I so
take care
Cheers
 
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canvasback said:
16's declined in popularity while 20's rose because 16's were not and are not part of the shooting sports games. The result of that was that for cost effective reasons, as demand dropped, the manufacturers started making 16's on 12 gauge frames, so what 16's were being offered had no real weight/size advantage over a 12.

It's those related issues that have made the 16 the choice of a small number of truly discriminating aficionados.
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Agree 100%
 
saskbooknut said:
There is no magic in the 16 gauge bore diameter. A suitably choked 20 gauge will provide equivalent patterns.
Assertions to the contrary cannot be demonstrated at the pattern board.
One ounce of shot from my Beretta 20 gauge is just as deadly as one ounce from my 16 gauge AyA.
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There is a carry weight advantage over the 12. The 16 is really the ideal upland gunner's shotgun and the only reason I never sought one out was ammo availability, even when the gauge was reasonably popular. 12 G shells used to be available at every gas station, practically, and in most places you could go in and buy 4-5 loose shells at a time. But the main thing with the 16 is indeed nostalgia. My dad had a 16 and I hunted with it a lot in my early years, Canuck brand paper shells and all. Shooting the 16 used to spin me around a bit, so I bet a 12 it would have knocked me around really good. And yeah there's the 20, but as I already said, not where I grew up.
 
3macs1 said:
Hummasons stocks the claybuster AA for the 16ga
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What's the price of a box? With me target load pulls double duty as a hunting load too. Of course I've been known to use game loads at the skeet club, which explains why my last box of 7.5s was $13.
 
Brutus said:
It's kind of funny, I have yet to own a 16 gauge. Got everything else, 410-10 gauge, including a 28. :)
Besides this is supposed to be the perfect upland chambering right? That's what I mostly do anyways with a good shotgun.
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Just one 28??? :) Man that would be tough. I could not live with just one
They are another sweet gauge
Cheers
 
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Wulfgard said:
What's the price of a box? With me target load pulls double duty as a hunting load too. Of course I've been known to use game loads at the skeet club, which explains why my last box of 7.5s was $13.
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I'm sorry I thought you were looking for wads. It is wads they stock for the 16ga for like 29 bucks for 1000
 
The older I get, the greater my selection of 'unusual' shotties. I have a 10, 2x16, 2x28, and a couple .410 in unique platforms. Is it an appreciation of their specialty or my desire to be different? I think a bit of both.
 
I checked in with several of the usual suspects as to availability, but I'll be picking up a couple different boxes of loads suitable for turkey hunting from Shooter's choice in Kitchener tomorrow. While they didn't have all the particular sku's I was looking for, it gives me an excuse to hang out with friends and get a meat coma at Lancaster's.
 
Brutus said:
It's kind of funny, I have yet to own a 16 gauge. Got everything else, 410-10 gauge, including a 28. :)
Besides this is supposed to be the perfect upland chambering right? That's what I mostly do anyways with a good shotgun.
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There was a gentleman named Bill McClure who had an antiquarian sporting books store out in the country south of Ottawa. He also raised champion Brittanys and wrote a column for a bird dog magazine, I think it was actually called 'Bird Dog.' Anyway, he was a strong proponent of the 28 double and he was a man who had made his life all about upland shooting. He claimed it was the most effective, best patterning, hardest hitting etc etc. (While I greatly respected his opinion, I'm still not tempted: with grouse as wary as they are around here I need every advantage I can muster.)
 
Small frame 16 ga doubles feel just right in the hand for upland bird shooting. To me anyway! I mostly shoot upland game with a 16 ga Browning Citori white lightning. Also use a Merkel O/U, a Kreighoff drilling, a Heym BBF combo 16/.222 and recently purchased a svelte 16 ga SXS with hammers of unknown European provenance. One ounce of hard No. 6 shot at 1250 fps will kill any upland bird within reasonable range, adjust chokes according to conditions - or just shoot IC/Mod. The 16 ga and a versatile pointing dog in the uplands is a "goldilocks" combination - just right.
 
Iwas lucky enoough to find a pristine white Lightning in 16 gauge before Christmas, didn't know they were available and kinda lucky me. Back in the day when a good bud ran Kent Cartridge for canada they had some issues with packaging on some 16 gauge Tungsten matrix ammo, buddy ask me if I knew anyone with a 16 gauge might like this for the deal it was going for. So I thought why not, some day I might have a 16 gauge as father time catches up. Boom so here I am 15 years later with 2 flats of 16 gauge TM ammo and a new citori to shoot it with this coming fall....FS
 
FS, you will like that ammo a lot. I have used it for ducks, pheasants, and even decoyed geese, it is deadly. Still have most of a flat left myself.
 
Fassteel said:
Iwas lucky enoough to find a pristine white Lightning in 16 gauge before Christmas, didn't know they were available and kinda lucky me. Back in the day when a good bud ran Kent Cartridge for canada they had some issues with packaging on some 16 gauge Tungsten matrix ammo, buddy ask me if I knew anyone with a 16 gauge might like this for the deal it was going for. So I thought why not, some day I might have a 16 gauge as father time catches up. Boom so here I am 15 years later with 2 flats of 16 gauge TM ammo and a new citori to shoot it with this coming fall....FS
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That lighting is a sweet gun. I missed out on the new ones when Clay had them for sale seemed they went real quick but later picked up a nice used one on the EE
Took a while I may add since those that have them seem to like them a lot and keep them
Cheers
 
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