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Back in those days I was shooting an Italian 3 1/2-inch 10 (but it only had 30-inch tubes). I opened the chokes so it could shoot more-inexpensive steel (that I would buy locally), but the recoil from those hardware-store loads was so-intense (at 1,400 fps) that the gun started to "rivel" (as in rivelling) and finally shot loose. I then switched over to pump 12s but... it just wasn't the same.

FWIW: the recoil from this 10 was pretty fierce.

Last edited by Lloyd3; 04/24/25 07:25 PM.