Originally Posted By: 2-piper

The key is, as well put in Roy's last post, the Load must be appropriate for the gun. None of this should ever be taken as a blanket endorsement for firing any & all 2 3/4" shells in a short chambered gun.


Spot on! American factory 2 3/4" shells are loaded to a higher pressure standard than that for which short-chambered guns--British, European, or older American--were built to handle. But for cautious reloaders, it is not difficult--especially in 12ga--to work up loads which are well within the pressure standards for which short chambered guns were designed.