Side x Side Shotguns

[Greg Massey]

Who still hunts or carries one of these old style double barrel shotguns turkey hunting? My wife inherited 2 double barrel shotguns one Spain made 12 ga 3 inch mag with 26 inch barrels and one double barrel 410 .. I'm having new recoil pad put on the old Spain made 12 ga. one and plan on carrying it on few hunts this spring. If you have one post some pictures of the old side x side double barrel..

[crow]

I mostly turkey hunt and hunt in general with sxs's, I also turkey hunt a 20ga single shot fairly often.
a CZ 20ga with tss or tss/lead and a couple of old 12gauges with lower pressure lead loads I reload for.

I started with single shots and once I was big enough an old Fox Sterlingworth was the first repeating gun I hunted with. Have always liked doubles and old guns.


How is the Spanish 12 ga choked, you might get lucky with it being a 3"gun that it was regulated for 1.5oz loads, which would be nice for turkeys. ( but not necessarily modern 3" magnum loads)

[Greg Massey]

I was thinking about trying some 2 3/4 , 1 1/4 pheasant loads in the gun ...

[Greg Massey]

I mostly turkey hunt and hunt in general with sxs's, I also turkey hunt a 20ga single shot fairly often.
a CZ 20ga with tss or tss/lead and a couple of old 12gauges with lower pressure lead loads I reload for.

I started with single shots and once I was big enough an old Fox Sterlingworth was the first repeating gun I hunted with. Have always liked doubles and old guns.


How is the Spanish 12 ga choked, you might get lucky with it being a 3"gun that it was regulated for 1.5oz loads, which would be nice for turkeys. ( but not necessarily modern 3" magnum loads)

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[crow]

I was thinking about trying some 2 3/4 , 1 1/4 pheasant loads in the gun ...

I'm not sure on Spanish guns, English 3" guns are generally 1.5 oz guns, but English loads are lower pressure than ours. Some people are comfortable shooting American non magnum 2.75 loads in 3" English guns

[gergg]

My SxS is a mid 1970's Merkel with F/XF chokes, I am using 1 1/4 oz lead loads in it, just fine for turkeys at reasonable distances.

[Greg Massey]

My SxS is a mid 1970's Merkel with F/XF chokes, I am using 1 1/4 oz lead loads in it, just fine for turkeys at reasonable distances.

Mine is about the same age .. i had gunsmith replace the old red recoil pad with new one and had him check it all out and he said i wouldn't have a problem shooting the same loads , this gun is 3 inch mag anyway ... with 26 inch barrels ...