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Sun 1 Jan, 2006 07:53 pm
Just wondering if I have any fellow trapshooters out there. If so where are you, how involved are you, and what are your equipment picks...etc.
I have been one time in california. I used a 12 gauge shotgun. It was a blast want to do it more. What gun/ guns do you use when you go shooting.
I am thinking about going again. Would a 22 work very well.
The 22 wouldn't be a very good choice. It is a rifle meaning that it shoots one little projectile very far. A shotgun is what is used because if shoots multiple projectiles that spread out and dont travel as far. I encourage you to find a shooter and go break some targets with them. Its great.
I use a Remington 1100 12 gauge shotgun. I like it real well and haven't had any trouble with it. A great gun for your money. As far as shells i load my own but they are pretty standard as far as velocity goes.
Mossberg 9200 12Ga Autoloader - just about the best all-around shotgun made for anywhere near the money. With the right barrel, choke, and load, anything from trap & skeet to just about any woodland game critter, from deer to bear.
timberlandko wrote:
Mossberg 9200 12Ga Autoloader - just about the best all-around shotgun made for anywhere near the money. With the right barrel, choke, and load, anything from trap & skeet to just about any woodland game critter, from deer to bear.
Make sure you're using slugs if you actually go out after bears with a shotgun in your hands...
gunga, no offense, partner, but I'm gonna guess I've been gun huntin' longer than you've been chewing food. For bear, or just about anything you figure is gonna run above 3 - 400 pounds, use 3" magnums - throwing 1.25 oz. Lightfield Hybrid Expander sabot slugs through a full rifled barrel. You'll get a muzzle velocity of around 1600fps, enough knockdown power to stop a Chevrolet, and if you can stand the kick, 2" groups at 150 yards are very doable.
Helluva kick, though - wouldn't recommend that setup for folks who weigh much under 200 pounds themselves - 'bout like a 10Ga goose gun.
Aw, speak English, why doncha. What's 1.25 oz in good, honest grains?
timberlandko wrote:gunga, no offense, partner, but I'm gonna guess I've been gun huntin' longer than you've been chewing food. For bear, or just about anything you figure is gonna run above 3 - 400 pounds, use 3" magnums - throwing 1.25 oz. Lightfield Hybrid Expander sabot slugs through a full rifled barrel. You'll get a muzzle velocity of around 1600fps, enough knockdown power to stop a Chevrolet, and if you can stand the kick, 2" groups at 150 yards are very doable.
Helluva kick, though - wouldn't recommend that setup for folks who weigh much under 200 pounds themselves - 'bout like a 10Ga goose gun.
I know YOU understand firearms; nonetheless I could easily picture some of the folks on A2K loading a gun up with birdshot and going out looking for bears. My own choice for anything really big would be the Marlin leveraction 45/70. Even a mild 45/70 load would flatten any sort of bear and the recoil is not as severe as a magnum slug.
An ounce & quarter works out to just under 550 grains, or a little less than 35½ grams.
gungasnake wrote: ... Even a mild 45/70 load would flatten any sort of bear and the recoil is not as severe as a magnum slug.
Sure it will, but there's nothing like the stunned looks on your hunting partners' faces when that Mossy rips off a heavy-load 3" magnum sabot - and if its near twilight - dawn or dusk - anybody not ready for it is night-blind for a good 10 minutes
I've done this once. I liked it way more than I'd have expected to. I can't remember what kind of gun we were using. I was in charge of setting up the flingie thing (hahahaha, there's a good technical term for ya).
The flingie thingie is called a
TRAP - and the little round thingies the flingie thingie flings are called pigeons.
I tried it on a cruise ship once. Couldn't hit a bloody thing. AArrrggghhh!!
Anon
Ain't ever tried it on a cruise ship ... don't imagine you hafta lead one of them much, though ... seems to me they'd be pretty big, slow, predictable targets.
'Course, as I said, I dunno; could be all wrong there - never shot at one.
Watch those pigeons, by the way. Unless they changed the formula, they are toxic to livestock grazing in the area.
Mossbergs are good cheap field guns; mainly cheap. Field and Stream voted the 1100 the best autoloader ever and i totally agree. They're hard to beat.
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