what year was the 3" shell introduced in?
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Editing my post...eltorro said:
Three-inch cartridges weren’t new in 1922. During the latter part of the 19th and early 20th centuries—provided enough shells were ordered and the load was relatively safe and possible to manufacture at a profit—ammunition companies would load anything anyone wished to order. Prior to World War I, the Widgeon Duck Club in central California obtained ten special-order, 3-inch-chambered 20-gauge Parker shotguns. They were probably used with ammunition from the California Powder Company of San Francisco. Heavy loads? No, the load information stamped on the over-shot wad on an early Peters Cartridge Co. 3-inch,
20-gauge shell shows it’s loaded with 2 1/2 drams of E.C. and 7/8 ounce of No. 4 chilled shot—the equivalent of today’s 20-gauge target load. Though the Super Fox wasn’t the only, or even the first, shotgun to have 3-inch chambers, using Olin’s new Western Super-X cartridges made it the best performer.
See this article:
http://www.nrapublications.org/sh. illustrated/MakingMagnum.asp
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