Thread: 20/12

Educate me
Is there any advantage whatsoever in buying a under/over or SxS in 20 gauge when I bloke already has a 12 gauge auto
I don't mean not buying the gun , that's a given, I just mean is there any point in getting the 20 gauge over the twelve.
there is a sweet 20g SxS in the local shop I've been looking at.
cheers.

I know jack shit about shotguns, but isn't the ammo twice the price?

Originally Posted by Tommy

I know jack shit about shotguns, but isn't the ammo twice the price?

Nope.

Can use lead shot for ducks, 20 gage goes to about 1 1/4 oz maybe more same as std 12 gage loads. Dont care what anyone else says lead kills better. Yes ammo is a bit more expensive but a lot of guys use them trap shooting. They look good and point well, nothing to dislike really.

Lighter gun and usually less recoil.

How can there be less recoil in a lighter gun?

Lighter loads? Don't know really, just seems to be in my experience

Originally Posted by Wildman

Lighter loads? Don't know really, just seems to be in my experience

Loads lighter, hum. are you sure? guns are often lighter which ,,,,,
also
seems to me that there is a stringing pattern with the 20, no personal expertise, just What I'm reading.

Was always looked at as being a beginers gun mainly because of the low recoil

Originally Posted by jakewire

Loads lighter, hum. are you sure? guns are often lighter which ,,,,,
also
seems to me that there is a stringing pattern with the 20, no personal expertise, just What I'm reading.

Don't worry about stringing, its pretty much not a problem, unless you are using a very small gauge and a very heavy charge.
Have a read about square loads, this is what, the fore fathers figured out, before magnumits screwed shotgun loads up,
Basically a square load, is a charge that as deep as it is wide, this is normally, were you get the most consistent, even patterns,
so in a 10ga 11/2, 12ga 1, 1/8-1 1/4, 16ga 1oz, 20ga 7/8 oz, 3/4 in a 28ga,
Generally if you need a magnum shell, or think you do, really you properly need, more time on the trap and skeet field, or a bigger gauge.

Nice ladies gun

Yeah I've read that to but then I've never actually patterned my own shotgun...

Ask @Woody

I use a 12g for clays and a 20g for everything else.
Heavy 1 1/4 loads will boot more in a 20g because the guns are generally lighter

But smaller bore dia which also impacts on felt recoil