I don’t much care for a 16 gauge . I’ve only got 7 SxS’s , 3 drilling’s , one pump and a single barrel all 16 gauge . I’ve only got two progressive and one single stage 16 loaders . Only have about 8,500-10,000 16 hulls and only about 20,000 16 gauge wads . About eight flats of factory 16 loads , a 16 gauge slug mold and so on .
Parker's , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines
I have O/U, SXS, Semi-auto, Pump, drilling, 16 gauge shotguns
What fun, what fun
Mike
NRA Benefactor 2004 USAF RET 1971-95
Recently purchased a Browning Sweet 16. Decided I’d better learn to feed it if I wanted to shoot it. I’ve been buying primed hulls and lead shot. Eventually powder will come back in. I’ve bought a manual from Ballistics Products and have a buddy that’s been reloading 16 gauge for years.
IMHO, the perfect 1oz bore; I have 5!
Nice batch of guns MOA. Is that bolt action a Mont. Ward ? Has a non detachable sheet steel box magazine as I recall.
Pretty sure my brothers and I used one of those in 410 when we were kids ... the trigger guard sure looks the same.
I only have 2 at the moment. I have my Dad's old Browning made in late 40's in Belgium and I have my father-in-laws Savage single barrel that he left me. I have always been a 16 fan. james
i own a 16 gauge la fever side by side, have from 1962. i shot my first deer with it,i need to get it out for a walk more....
I own 1 and only 1 16 ga. I will never be without it. It is my favorite rabbit gun and it is really good for pheasants as well. It is a 1951 Belgium made Browning, belonged to my dad. I still remember the first time he let me carry it, rather the the 1950 870. It has a natural point for aim that just works for me.
I have a Mossberg 190 w/ c-lect-choke, a parkerized Remington Model 11, a H&R Topper 88, and a Remington 11-48. Years back when 16 ga was more common I would buy cases of bird shot from K-Mart when the season was over. I still have a bunch left but wish I would have kept the fired hulls now that I have a reloading press. My father (Porkchop_bob) gave me a case of slugs to go with the stash I already have so I think I am set with those.
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
- Albert Camus -
Has anyone tried .60 caliber round ball inside a shot wad type of loading in 16 gauge? I have a .60 mold and an Ithaca Deer Slayer in 16 gauge.
I've never owned, and perhaps never shot, a 16 gauge, but one of my greatest regrets is an ithaca 37 that I passed up when I was a teenager. It was a grey rat that had been used well, but was worth way more than the 40 dollars being asked for it! I turned it away because I didn't have any 16's...dumb,dumb,dumb. Oh well!
I have a few 16s. It's my favorite gauge.
I read somewhere around forty years ago the three most ballistically efficient shotgun loads were a 28 gauge with 3/4 ounce , a 16 gauge with an ounce and the 10 gauge (2 7/8”) with 1 1/4 ounces . And so far in darn near forty years of loading shotgun shells I’ve never found anything to disprove that .
Parker's , 6.5mm's and my family in the Philippines
My Grandson now has my Ithaca M37 16 Mod choke but I kept a couple Win 97's & a. Mod 12. Loading is done with a PW 375. The 97 Mod choke replaced the 37 as my pheasant gun. Hope my grandson loves the 37 as much as I do.
Bob
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BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |