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< 16ga. Ammunition & Reloading ~ Anyone shoot Gamebore Ammo? |
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Fri Feb 16, 2018 12:09 pm
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Joined: 25 Aug 2014
Posts: 286
Location: Finger Lakes
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Does anyone shoot 16 ga. Gamebore Ammo? 2 1/2” 1 oz fiber wads. I have a few boxes but haven’t shot them yet. I have 6’s and 7’s. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2018 1:13 pm
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Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Posts: 9472
Location: Amarillo, Texas
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They are fine, a little stout on recoil when target shooting, fine in the field
or sporting clays when there is time between shots
Mike |
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Fri Feb 16, 2018 2:24 pm
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Joined: 10 Jul 2010
Posts: 356
Location: Ponchatoula, Louisiana
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skeettx wrote: |
They are fine, a little stout on recoil when target shooting, fine in the field
or sporting clays when there is time between shots
Mike
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Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:07 pm
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I've been using the 12 ga. Gamebore Pure Gold 1 oz loads and they are dynamite in a first open barrel. I would expect the 16 ga. version to be pretty good. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2018 3:43 pm
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Joined: 28 Mar 2008
Posts: 1460
Location: Eagle, Nebraska
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I use them in my old Parker and it is lightweight, no problems, work on pheasants well, quail too. |
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Fri Feb 16, 2018 5:40 pm
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Joined: 01 Dec 2008
Posts: 605
Location: Topeka, Kansas
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I have used Gamebore in both my 16 and 20. They were ok, no issues.
Note they make a variety of loads. |
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Sun Feb 18, 2018 3:29 pm
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Joined: 06 Apr 2007
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Location: The Great Northwet
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I have some and they work fine, but I've read they are sized 1/2 size smaller than U.S. sizes. |
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Sun Feb 25, 2018 7:13 am
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UncleDanFan wrote: |
I have some and they work fine, but I've read they are sized 1/2 size smaller than U.S. sizes.
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You're right, Mark. The 12 ga. Gamebore Pure Gold 1 oz., 6 shot I've been using counts out to 270/0z. which is that 6 1/2 - 6 2/3's size. I like them because they fill out my very open-choked first barrel patterns in my 12's and seem to kill pheasants very well in my experience. I typically shoot something else in the tighter barrel. It's an overly complicated, needless hobby-niche ammo thing of course, but that's why we are known as "shotgun nuts!" Truth is, another shotgun nut named Larry Brown turned me on to the paper-hulled version of these loads, and a couple summers ago Cabela's blew out their plastic-hulled Pure Golds and I scooped up a bunch.
That said, I haven't tried the 16 ga. version. |
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Sun Feb 25, 2018 8:22 pm
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Joined: 02 Jun 2016
Posts: 96
Location: Boreal Shield of Ontario
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I shoot Gamebore 16 bore traditional game loads; 65mm, 7 shot for grouse. Use them in my pre-WW2 German sxs’s. They pattern great, kill well and are forest friendly. |
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Mon Feb 26, 2018 6:32 am
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Joined: 26 Jun 2005
Posts: 376
Location: North ID.
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Since the local Cabelas no longer carries the traditional Gamebore 16 ga shell, I've run out of them! I used the #6 shot mainly, on wild ID and SD pheasants and occasionally for chukars.
I found them to be very effective on the birds mentioned. |
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