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A quick question for you guys more in the know than I,
what are the effects, if any, good or bad from shooting
smaller sized shells is longer chambers ?

To clairify, I mean if you only shot 2 3/4" shells out of a
3" or 3.5" chamber is there any effect on the pattern, velocity, etc.
I don't imagine there would be any harm on the chamber
or gun itself but is there any performance issues ?

Thx. in advance
 
no there really is no affect and its more commonplace to shoot 2 3/4 " shells out of a 3.5" chamber than it is to shoot 3.5".performance will not be affected.just don't shoot 3" or 3.5 " out of a shotgun chambered for 2 3/4 " shells only.
 
I do not think that there would be much difference from shooting 2 3/4 out of a 3 or 3 1/2 vs, 2 3/4 out of a 2 3/4, but there might be some difference. I have noticed that some o/u guns that are designated as sporting clays are often 3 inch chambered but many of the higher grade trap, skeet and sporting models are designated 2 2/4 only, even though the actions are the same as field guns by the same company. It may be that optimum target patterns might be better in guns chambered for target length loads.
 
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it probably has more to do with the fact that no clay bird guns that i know of will ever need to shoot 3" shells,just clay birds. and no trap or skeet shooter would want to even if they could. 2 3/4 " shells have been fired through 3" chambered field guns forever. point is there is no harm done to the chamber.
 
Thx. here guys.
I figured there would be no harm done and that it probably
doesn't effect the pattern.
I guess my question spawned from trap/skeet/sporting guns
are only chambered for 2 3/4" and got to wondering why?
but I agree with 12magnum's answer to that.
I'm in the market for a good double and I want it with a 3"
chamber. Mostly going to be used for trap and sporting clays
but I want to keep the option of hunting with 3" shells open to me.
 
WithoutWarning said:
Thx. here guys.
I figured there would be no harm done and that it probably
doesn't effect the pattern.
I guess my question spawned from trap/skeet/sporting guns
are only chambered for 2 3/4" and got to wondering why?
but I agree with 12magnum's answer to that.
I'm in the market for a good double and I want it with a 3"
chamber. Mostly going to be used for trap and sporting clays
but I want to keep the option of hunting with 3" shells open to me.
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There are many target guns that are chambered for 3" shells including Berettas and Perazzis to name a couple.

If shooting a 2-3/4" shell in a 3" chamber was an issue I doubt Perazzi would make their guns with them.

My Beretta 391 Sporting has a 3" chamber and it does double duty both as a clays and hunting gun.
 
The longer chamber will reduce recoil a bit and probably help the pattern. Lots of trap guns have a long forcing cone alteration done just to do this...
 
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