Pedersoli Muzzeloading 10 Gauge Shotgun

[jdavisward]

I cannot get a steel shot load to work well with a 10 gauge Pedersoli shotgun. Does any one have any suggestions?

 

[nwtradegun]

steel shot in a muzzleloader does not fly. I have tried in a 12 ga bore brown bess with shot cups. they will also destroy your barrel. so I gave up on water fowl.

 

[Lorne Johnson]

ITX or Bismuth work well, although they cost. Wheere I live you don't get many waterfowl shots, so I can pretend to afford it.

 

[azmntman]

I had one and plastic cups seemed to wok well? I had choke tubes (A PIA to screw out load cup and screw in Xtra full for ducks though!)

Per above post just use ITX, expensive but you can practice with lead and shooting over decoys it's still cheaper than centerfire duck loads!

I sold mine as barrels shot right/right and left left and I couldn't get used to remembering to aim right then left!

 

[Britsmoothy]

I had one and plastic cups seemed to wok well? I had choke tubes (A PIA to screw out load cup and screw in Xtra full for ducks though!)

Per above post just use ITX, expensive but you can practice with lead and shooting over decoys it's still cheaper than centerfire duck loads!

I sold mine as barrels shot right/right and left left and I couldn't get used to remembering to aim right then left!

all you needed was a new file to regulate those barrels :td:

 

[azmntman]

Ya so I have since read! That was pre forum days! I may have to get me another!

 

[jdavisward]

Please excuse --I'm new to using this forum!

You wrote:

I had one and plastic cups seemed to wok well? I had choke tubes (A PIA to screw out load cup and screw in Xtra full for ducks though!)

What brand cups and what do you mean by PIA?

 

[azmntman]

Dont recall on brand, got em from reloader.

PIA = Pain in the Arse

 

[woodse guy]

Ballistic Products makes a wad that is called Multi-Metal that works with all the non-toxic shot.

 

[Darryl Quidort]

Can you direct me to the information on regulating the barrels with a file? I have the same problem with my SXS 10 gauge. Thanks!

 

[Britsmoothy]

Can you direct me to the information on regulating the barrels with a file? I have the same problem with my SXS 10 gauge. Thanks!

I know not where the information is only that I have done it
to a couple of sxs shotguns. A Pedersoli of no choke tubes was one.
If a guns right barrel shoots right and you still have the gun shouldered some barrel muzzle or crown needs removeing from the right side. Remember this is with a shouldered or mounted gun.
So, with the gun now butt down and bead closest to you a file is layed across the muzzle and biased to the right side of the muzzle.
Usually there is a bevel or countersunk finish to Pedersoli muzzles. Just file down to that and test. Just remove a little at a time .5 mm or .020". It does not take much.
Once poi is achieved polish and finish the muzzle.

Now get ready for the na sayers!

B.

 

[MSW]

Britsmoothy, I'm not a nay- sayer, but I am confused ...

now, if my right hand barrel shoots to the right, I take the (obviously unloaded) gun and look at it with the butt between my feet, the muzzle pointed up the bead at the top, and the barrels in my left hand ... the offending barrel will be on the left (facing me from this direction)...

I put the file on the muzzles and take off a bit to my left, as I see the arrangement?

aaaargh ... dyslexia skcus!

 

[Darryl Quidort]

ok, I understand your instructions, Britsmoothy. However, my SXS has internal screw in choke tubes. This complicates things I suppose.

 

[azmntman]

Better yet! Don't have to worry about messing up the barrel, just the screw ins. 1st I'd make sure to score the tube(s) and the barrel so they are in the same place each time inserted. Then file away and if ya screw up yer out a tube. Likely have to do each tube though. I have never done it, didnt now ya could before I got tired of trying to remember to shoot right/right and left/left! Wish I had my pedersoli 10GA back now!

 

[Britsmoothy]

Britsmoothy, I'm not a nay- sayer, but I am confused ...

now, if my right hand barrel shoots to the right, I take the (obviously unloaded) gun and look at it with the butt between my feet, the muzzle pointed up the bead at the top, and the barrels in my left hand ... the offending barrel will be on the left (facing me from this direction)...

I put the file on the muzzles and take off a bit to my left, as I see the arrangement?

aaaargh ... dyslexia skcus!

Note;
"So, with the gun now butt down and beadclosest to you a file is layed across the muzzle and biased to the right side of the muzzle".

Yes, mark the tubes and using that reference do the same procedure.

About the comment about if you screw up you only lose a choke tube! You really are not going to have to remove that much barrel end so as to destroy the barrels! If that happens it is you at fault, not the procedure!
If one does get it wrong all you have to do is flat it all off again, go back to the pattern board and start over again.
Once your happy you can spend all the time you want polishing to the point that no one will ever know.

If you ever get chance to look at an old English shot gun breech loader or front hold it up and look across the muzzles, you may just be surprised what you see! :thumbsup:

B.

 

[Darryl Quidort]

Thanks, Brit. I appreciate the info.