FirstFreedom
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"For Sale - Browning Gold, 10 ga, 3.5" magnum, Shot once, $925.00."
Once - tee hee.
Once - tee hee.
I got a chuckle out of this ad in my local classifieds today
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grey_pilgrim
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Try before you buy is definately a good idea with something like that.
Or meybe it was the scarcity of ammo.
I had a good friend get one, but he had trouble finding birdshot ammo for it. . . or thats what he told me when i invited him to come sporting clay shooting with me.
12 ga is quite enough, thank you very much and good day to you sir.
RKBAadvocate
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Holy crap! I'd sport one if I could afford it......
No kidding!?! I have one Remington 8 gauge "Industrial" slug (it is supposedly used in some mining/quarrying operations to safely remove overhangs, etc.; that's what I've heard, at least). I imagine it's fired from some solidly-mounted arm; hate to touch that one of in a big single-barrel top-break!!
SCBair, a buddy of mine used to work at a quarry where those floor mounted 8-gauge guns were used as you describe. He told me that one time, the third shift guys had the bright idea of firing the thing with its noise reducer removed. (I guess a suppressor is legally okay for an industrial gun.) Anyhow, he reports that the resultant concussion took out most of the windows in that particular room! 
Over the years he's given me a few of those shells, both the loaded 3 ounce slugs, as well as empty hulls. I've had a bit of fun "salting" various places with them. Kinda fun to let a law enforcement pal who works a bad neighborhood in on the joke; when one of his coworkers finds one or two of those empties on the sidewalk and reports to the precinct, there's a bit of excitement created by the thought that "one of the locals must be using a REALLY BIG gun now, oh my God!"
Btw, two things about this prank: 1) The cop who's in on the joke tells his coworkers before too long; 2) Heck no, my fingerprints aren't on the hulls..
Over the years he's given me a few of those shells, both the loaded 3 ounce slugs, as well as empty hulls. I've had a bit of fun "salting" various places with them. Kinda fun to let a law enforcement pal who works a bad neighborhood in on the joke; when one of his coworkers finds one or two of those empties on the sidewalk and reports to the precinct, there's a bit of excitement created by the thought that "one of the locals must be using a REALLY BIG gun now, oh my God!"
Btw, two things about this prank: 1) The cop who's in on the joke tells his coworkers before too long; 2) Heck no, my fingerprints aren't on the hulls..
The autoloading 10 is not anywhere NEAR as nasty as a 3.5" 12 gauge pumpgun, and is a good bit softer shooting than the 3.5" 12 autoloaders. The exception to this is the newest Gold 10 with the alloy reciever, it feels nearly identical to the Gold 12 3.5" as the weights are nearly the same. Most 10's are in the 11-13 pound range, and most 3.5" 12's are in the 7-8.5 pound range with ballistics nearly the same as the 10.