Can't speak for the old 10s but the new ones will kill a turkey through a lot of brush. The first time I took mine hunting after getting it you could really see the hole through the weeds between my position and the turkey. I have a picture of it somewhere I will have to dig up. The gun is a Remington SP-10.
Where's the Kaboom? There was supposed to be an earth shattering Kaboom.
Marvin the Martian
Pardon me for reviving an old thread, but I obtained much of the information I was seeking from here, and though I'd give back a little. Links:
Remington MasterBlaster System (8 ga.)
Winchester Industrial Products (8 ga.)—the Western and Ringblaster "Tools" PDF downloads are maintenance manuals, but the Industrial Loads PDF is a nice catalog
Those sound as if they were the outsized ancestors of the BRI Sabot slug. The 1972 edition of Law Enforcement Handgun Digest (Dean A. Grennell and Mason Williams; Northfield, Ill., Digest Books; ISBN 0695803352) had an article on them entitled "Patient, Dogged Research And Development Finally Paid Off With Proof That Projectiles Needn't Spin For Tack-Driving Accuracy!" on pages 112–115. IIRC BRI slugs were redesigned in the 1980s or '90s to perform up to the hype, and speaking of movies they were (incorrectly) touted as super armor piercing rounds in Alien Nation.
I once fired an 8 gauge muzzel loader double barrel. My shoulder and I have never forgotten
"Investment" is the new "Throw money at it!"
Detectives, and Cobras, and Agents!
Oh my!
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 |