Anyone geese hunting with single shot 10 ga?

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Just out of curiosity, anyone hunts geese with a 10 gauge single shot?

I have a H&R 10 gauge and would like to bring it for goose hunting next season. My spot is near a waterfowl protected area, so sometimes geese and ducks come into the decoys, sometimes they just aren't interested and are just passing by... so my hunts are sometimes pass shooting, sometimes over decoys, depends on how they feel and how they got served in the refuge.

I feel my 10 ga single shot would be great for pass shooting, but over decoys, I'm gonna miss my 12 ga O/U's second shot. Anyone as any experience, just curious to ear about your setups?
 
There is something to be said about hunting with a single shot.
You set up, you wait, you call and try your best to entice them closer to your spread.
When they get within range you pick your target, judge the lead and slap the trigger and follow through.
When the shot has done its part because you have done your part that goose will fold and fall from the sky....
A thing of beauty and a well spent morning.
Oh wait, there is another single headed my way and its looking like its committed....
If you merely wanna kill geese take the auto loader and the blast them like there is no tomorrow, but for a challenge take the single action...be it a .410 or a 10 gauge.
Rob
 
Memories of years ago, when the ten gauge made it's reappearance to the marsh. I was hunting with my cousin, we were in about our late teens I think when we saw this ungodly long barrel swing up from the reeds, across the wide creek we hunted and whump! the report came across to us. Too far away to see if anything fell from the sky, but we distinctly heard him swear after the shot.
Met him at the landing when the MNR was doing their thing. He had quite a number of geese. It was a single shot, don't remember the make.
 
Nice to hear about your inputs ! definitely I see it's something that brings home good stories.

For the H&R SS handling steel shot, well I don't think there is a definite answer to that. I've made a lot of searches and it's so contradictory. For the 12 gauge, there's the «general consensus» about shooting steel through a mod choke or lesser. But the 10 gauge is a very different beast, the barrel being a lot more heavy/robust. I haven't found anything on the subject that specified restrictions or not. My personal guess would be to shoot through the mod choke barrel, but if one has a full choke I would definitely stick with smaller shot size just like DragonFire said and pattern it just to see if it doesn't throw a blown pattern with that particular type of ammo. Some H&R do have interchangeable chokes though. Anyone can correct me if I'm wrong or didn't find the right info!
 
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