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Been thinking about getting a 3" shotgun, and looking at extended tubes for the capacity, but was wondering if anyone was using them for hunting?

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Hello Jason,

If you are hunting snow geese over decoys an extended mag is fine because geese are big and slow over a set of decoys. Crows on the other hand manuver to quickly for the added weight in the front end of you're shotgun. Besides it's seldom that you get a chance to rap off more than 3 shots at a time on crows anyway. A magazine tube that holds four rounds is plenty for crows.

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in tn. they consider crows a migratory bird so we have to leave the plug in. i usely only can shoot twice though, the 3rd shot is out of spite for missing the 1st 2 times. lol

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I agree that a three shot tube is more then enough for these critters.  With my plug removed I get an additional round with my Benelli and I am lucky to shoot off three shots at a time.  



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I had many time this season I could not keep a shell in the gun. I will be adding a extension tube to my gun this off season. My Benelli holds 4. I would like 6 or 7. I killed several quads this season and frantically reloaded to try to get another.

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Here in PA, total of 3 shells onlyangered.giffrustrated.gifsteaming.gif

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watch em fall wrote:

Here in PA, total of 3 shells onlyangered.giffrustrated.gifsteaming.gif




I could see how that would SUCK!!!!no



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It does but I am getting better at quick loading. I would prefer a belt fed shotgun if it were legalconfuse just something to think about!

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It does but I am getting better at quick loading. I would prefer a belt fed shotgun if it were legalconfuse just something to think about!






 



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I 'd like it for geese, but it jams too much.

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Greg,

When the crows are coming in faster than you can load you are only going to get one or two shells in the gun before another shot presents itself, so the only advantage to having a mag extension would be on the first salvo, after that you're empty.

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I like that belt fed shot gun- CAPACITY BOYS!! GET YUORSELFS A MODEL 12 or A MODEL 97 AND DO SOME
"PUMPING"!!!

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Greg,

When the crows are coming in faster than you can load you are only going to get one or two shells in the gun before another shot presents itself, so the only advantage to having a mag extension would be on the first salvo, after that you're empty.

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The only time I have had need of an extension was when hunting by myself. If I am with someone, they take up the slack and it is never a problem. I had several occasions this season where more shells in the gun would have meant more "digits on the counter" as you say. smile

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Hello Greg,

On the subject of fast paced crow shooting I can remember some shoots with Boyd Robeson back in the late 1970's to mid 1980's where we had to shoot in vollies! As soon as one guy was empty he would yell out "out" and his partner would come up shootin! When he fired his 5 shots he would say "out" and I'd come up shootin. When you have a short window (shooting time) with plenty of birds coming in almost non stop then two guys can kill a pile of crows. I remember one shoot where we shot almost 500 crows the last hour in the late afternoon, the both of us were averaging around 8 crows a minute using the vollie fire method. This is as fast as you can keep the guns loaded, while it's a great memory I don't enjoy shooting like that, I like it more drawn out so you enjoy the experience more. But...... thats just my opinion.

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I have a briley 10 shot tube extension for my sbe ii and so farso good. I like having lots of shells just in case they come in a wave.


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Did you every load up that 10 shot with 3" or 3.5's.

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I got about 35,boxes of 3.5 copperplated number fours for dirt cheap. They work great if you can handle the kick...if i didnt get them so cheap i would just use number 8 shot. Mod choke works best for me with this shot. With the benelli i have to spray some lube everytime i go out when shooting the 3.5. If i dont i can get a jam on the first round of firing.

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Can you get 7, 3.5's in that 10 shot mag. The math says yes, but can you tell me for sure.

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Use 2 shotguns, one in your hands and one accross your lap. When 1st is empty, pick up the 2nd and keep shooting. Never done it, but sounds fun

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Kentucky, 3 rounds only.

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Model 12Winchester holds 6 in the mag tube with another in the spout. Seven rounds in a shotgun add quite a bit of forward weight making a smooth gun mount and swing difficult in my opinion. I've tried it before but fel that if you can't do it with three or four rounds then a couple more wont make much difference.

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