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10 guage fowler..yea or nay?

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mark davidson:
OK, I think I have found a way to afford a fowler. I gotta let my builder know this evening if it is to be 12 guage or 10 guage. I need your opinions. It will be a serious hunting shotgun for turkey and ducks and maybe some squirrel and rabbit shooting. Availability of components may be an issue with the 10 guage??? Is the 10 in a black powder gun really superior or that much more potent than the 12 or can I heat up the 12 to do about anything a 10 will do??  Opinions needed quick. Thanks in advance!!!

Bigsmoke:
Powder is powder, shot is shot - only difference is quantities required.
As far as the other components, I think both Circle Fly and Ox Yoke both make wads for 10 ga, 11 ga, 12 ga and 13 ga.
Caps is caps and flints are flints.
There you go.  Rock and roll.
Never shot a 10 gauge that I can recall, so no help here on that.

jbullard1:
This is just my opinion,
I already have 2 12's so I'd go with the 10 and at least a 36" barrel

But the 12 will be good for turkey and geese as well
Like Bigsmoke says the wads are available and you can always make your own

Gambia:
Mark.

Is it a flinter or percussion ?
Feltwad

A Flint Lock will not secure a chicken house door

russ t frizzen:
I have a 10 bore flint fowler coming soon. It has a 48" barrel and a cherrywood stock. I figure anything a 12 gauge will do, a 10 will do a bit better. Finding components is not a problem and the gun weighs no more than a 12 gauge would.

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