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Goose gun

  • 29-03-2013 8:22pm
    #1
    T338
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 97 ✭✭


    Has anyone on here have any experience with the 12 bore goose gun with 35 or 36 inch barrel for vermin/ fox control are they any good?


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  • #2
    TriggerPL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,008 ✭✭✭TriggerPL


    Yep 7 inches closer to the fox


  • #3
    yubabill1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,301 ✭✭✭yubabill1


    A friend bought one back in the eighties, the 3" magnum cartridges were really only available in goose guns back then.

    No great advantage, IMHO and not worth the extra bother of the longer barrel, which can "hang up" when crossing boundaries and generally get in the way.

    A normal shotgun capable of firing 3" cartridges (a lot of guns are) would serve more than one use. There are plenty of 2 3/4" (normal) loads suitable for the purpose, too.

    You would be very restricted if you wanted to shoot anything other than foxes/geese as they tend to be very tightly choked, so you will have to be quite accurate and it will be very destructive at normal range.

    It's really a matter of what you want to do with it - if you only want to shoot foxes, it will work if you don't mind the other inconveniences. There is some extra range, but don't expect miracles.


  • #4
    meathstevie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,777 ✭✭✭meathstevie


    A friend of mine had one for a while in the eighties and to this day he still describes it as the most useless yoke of a thing he ever had.


  • #5
    deerhunter1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,729 ✭✭✭deerhunter1


    meathstevie wrote: »
    A friend of mine had one for a while in the eighties and to this day he still describes it as the most useless yoke of a thing he ever had.

    Agree had one myself back then,a great novelty back then but now looking back a bloody cumbersome yoke,was great for geese back then


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