Lost Shotgun Art

[pappy19]

I remember hearing about this but I have never tried it.

Pap


http://www.2ndamendmenttv.com/videos/shotguns/lost-arts-pt-1.html

[sandhills]

I've never heard of that, neat video and thanks for sharing it.  Somehow I get the feeling that isn't OSHA approved though  :D.

[Tom]

That was Standard Operating Procedure when I was a kid.  It was one of the first things I was taught after learning not to blow my foot off or point at someone.

It turned my meager purchase of one 10¢ shell at a time into a .410 bird gun that would take a deer.  I kept a cut shell and my pocket knife in one pocket and my other shell, if I had more, in the other.  Either a #6 or #8 was in the gun, but I was prepared.

[ely]

Tom, what needs to be pointed out is the fact that when you were a kid we didnt have any of these extra full turkey chokes ,etc. those lead shot (cut shells) and (punkinheads) shot just fine thru the open bores and modified chokes, even ok thru a full choke if you can stand the extra recoil.

fast forward to todays times and we have the tighter chokes plus alot of steel shot out there to shoot for ammo.
most folks do not realize the danger in ringing a steel shot load and shooting it thru a tight choke gun. the steel shot refuses to compress and deform to fit thru the choke like the lead will.
it can with the right (or wrong) combination increase the pressure in the barrel to where very bad things happen.

i re read what i had typed and in no way direct this at tom, i just wanted to point out that Barry and his cohort may get someone injured at best.

[Chuck White]

When we were teens, we would carry a couple of cut-shells when we went small game hunting right after deer season closed, just in case we happened across a nice buck.

We had to help feed the family ya know!

I think we only got one buck with a cut-shell though!

As mentioned, it can be dangerous and don't do it with steel shot!