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O/U 30 inch barrel Full/Full Choke?

TWalkerTWalker Member Posts: 2,372 ✭✭✭✭✭
edited March 2008 in Ask the Experts
What is the purpose of this shotgun? It is an O/U BSA 500 made by SKB in 12 GA with 2 3/4 inch chambers, 30 inch barrels choked Full and Full. I bought it because it looked like new without a trace of powder fouling anywhere and no signs of use and because it was priced right, $300. I am thinking about using it for turkey hunting despite the standard length chambers. Also, why would they put a barrel selector on the trigger if both barrels are full choked? Would it be a good gun for trap shooting? Thanks for any information.
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  • CapnMidnightCapnMidnight Member Posts: 8,038 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    It's a trap gun, use a mic and measure the chokes, one is probably a little tighter than the other, the top one. You got a pretty good buy, use it for a trap gun, or put it on the auction side and see if you can make a dollar.
    W.D.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    when youre hunting, sometimes you put two different loads in a gun. one may have 9 shot, the other bbls might have 6's. thats what the selector is for.
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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  • XXCrossXXCross Member Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sounds to me like it's intended for pass shooting waterfowl.
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  • duckhunterduckhunter Member Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Not with 2&3/4 inch chambers
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  • triple223taptriple223tap Member Posts: 385 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It must have been intended as a trap gun, maybe for doubles, or as a live bird gun.
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  • XXCrossXXCross Member Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Not with 2&3/4 inch chambers"

    Why not? It doesn't take a cannon to knock a duck out of the sky.
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  • Lucky007Lucky007 Member Posts: 308 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    It wouldn't work as a trap gun...the first shot is usually made with an open choke, then the second shot would be from the full choke tube. I think a live bird gun would be a pretty good guess.
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    im/full is a good livebird. you have to shoot them before the circle.
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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  • only winchestersonly winchesters Member Posts: 1,580 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hello TWalker: Well lets start by the style of Butt Stock!
    A Monte Carlo butt stock or a "straight Comb butt stock with approx. 1 1/2in. drop at the heel, you have a Trap gun.
    If the DAH, is 2 1/4 in. you have a field gun.

    Plenty of older O/U trap guns choked F/F. (Win. Md 101, Early 70s Browning Citoris)
    F/F with a barrel sellecctor give you the option of which barrel you want to shoot first period. even on the Trap range. (Doubles, International Trap, (2 shots, one bird).

    In the field usually find a F/F O/U Duck gun with 3 in. chambers. however there are field O/U that are F/F with 2 3/4in. chambers. When lead was legal for waterfowl, most waterfowlers used guns with FULL chokes period!

    As bobski stated, you can vary your loads. Depending on what you were hunting and the time of the year, (early season birds vs late season when they have full plumage). I do that today, first shot of one size shot second or 3 rd shot with larger shot.

    Today a F/F can be used for turkey, again you may have #4 in one barrel and #6 in the other. Being an O/U choked F/F don't shoot STEEL shot out of it. You will have to use Bismuth, Tungsten/Matrix etc.

    Not the ideal dove and quail set up, but it could be used with a "spreader load or brush load" in one barrel, and a standard load in the second barrel.

    Nice thing about a F/F gun, it's always easier to let the bird get another 5-10 yards further out, before you pull the trigger! It's hard to get a bird to come back to you so you can shoot at him! LOL

    Regards Dave
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  • bobskibobski Member Posts: 17,866 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    for 300.00, id take any choke combo. enjoy it.
    Retired Naval Aviation
    Former Member U.S. Navy Shooting Team
    Former NSSA All American
    Navy Distinguished Pistol Shot
    MO, CT, VA.
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  • GrasshopperGrasshopper Member Posts: 17,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    LET ME know if you don't want it for 300. dollars,,,I couldn't find a bargain around this area if I had to.. nambu
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