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Boon, that Sweet 16 is a classic gun. What is she choked? I have one choked cylinder and it has killed many a bird.

I can say from experience that you don't want to shoot steel 7's at anything other than targets. I shot them last year in a 12ga for clapper rails and besides a lot of tiny steel pellets in the meat, ...

There is no such thing as traditional grouse hunting. There is only grouse hunting.

So what is wrong with using a semi-auto for grouse?

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Lloyd3,

Woolner was definitely not a traditional Grouse hunter of his day, some of his writing I loved, some of his ideas, like using a semi-auto in the Grouse woods, not so much.

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I was not aware but I'll check them out. Thanks Skeet

Belgian A5 Cylinder choke

I'm looking for a 16 ga. steel shot load that I can hunt dove, rail birds, woodcock etc. I'm interested in a load around 1350 fps. I have plenty of cheddite and federal hulls that id like to use and ...

Start with the full and modified chokes with buckshot. Your goal is to put as many pellets from that load into a deer and open chokes just dont do that past 20 yards or so. The full or the modified s ...

Thanks 16GG. I found that out the hard way when i reloaded some Remington gun club hulls I picked up at the range. Almost everyone stick in my 870. The only hulls I'll be reloading will be empties fir ...

Thank you Skeet. I'll try to polish it first.

I just converted my 12 gauge MEC 600 to 16 gauge and I have a question about the resize ring that came with it. I adjusted it according to the directions and tested it on few shells and got mixed resu ...

I have never felt handicapped hunting with factory 1 oz loads and I would rather shoot a lighter load of shot comfortably than get kicked to death shooting a few more pellets.
If I was hunting large ...