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Title: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: Lee on September 05, 2012, 03:50:51 PM

Ha!  That's what a gun store clerk told me the other day when I asked to buy some.  I went down the road to a freakin Meijer grocery store and found a bunch.  Was browsing the net today to learn a little more about the Win Model 12 16g that I just bought - several online posters claimed that the value was higher than 12g - "because they don't make the shells anymore".  Where do people come up with this stuff?  As far as I can tell, just about every major manufacturer still makes the stuff - in many flavors.  Jeez.

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: dm1333 on September 05, 2012, 04:24:45 PM

I have a stockpile of 16 gauge and every time I run across more I buy a few boxes.  It is a little too much for quail but if I end up in Michigan again it seems to be just about perfect for grouse.

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: lee n. field on September 05, 2012, 04:34:16 PM

you believe everything you hear at a gun store?

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: Lee on September 05, 2012, 05:21:59 PM

Depends...not usually for more than a few minutes.

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: griz on September 06, 2012, 07:57:37 AM

I could understand somebody, if they don't know that places other than walmart sell ammo, believing that they only make 12 & 20 now.  But a guy in a gun store?

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: charby on September 06, 2012, 08:08:44 AM

I'd love to have me a 16g that was a true 16g frame.

Also what I have read the 3" 20g is pretty much killed the 16g shotgun.

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: De Selby on September 06, 2012, 08:22:04 AM

16 is the perfect shotgun - 12 gauge performance with 20 gauge recoil

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: brimic on September 06, 2012, 08:32:26 AM

I was told by a sales guy at a Gander Mountain store about 10 years ago that 6.5x55 ammo was no longer made because the .260 remington made it obsolete.

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: mtnbkr on September 06, 2012, 08:47:25 AM

Quote from: brimic on September 06, 2012, 08:32:26 AM

I was told by a sales guy at a Gander Mountain store about 10 years ago that 6.5x55 ammo was no longer made because the .260 remington made it obsolete.

Good thing I reload 6.5x55 and that the 260Rem keeps 6.5mm bullets around or I'd be in trouble. :P

Chris

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: Hutch on September 06, 2012, 09:42:18 AM

I asked the LGS owner about getting me a KelTec Sub2000 in 9mm/Glock config.  He told me since they'd recently been banned, he'd ordered the last two the distributor had, one to keep and one to sell.

Lying bastard.

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: AJ Dual on September 06, 2012, 09:47:11 AM

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Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: K Frame on September 06, 2012, 12:59:58 PM

Ah, the unmitigated joy of dealing with counter monkeys.

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: French G. on September 06, 2012, 01:46:26 PM

The only one I jump all over is finding 2.5" 16ga since I have 2 that eat those. Little scarce, but I have a 16ga problem...

Title: Re: They don't make 16 gauge shotgun shells anymore
Post by: brimic on September 06, 2012, 02:30:15 PM

Quote

Good thing I reload 6.5x55 and that the 260Rem keeps 6.5mm bullets around or I'd be in trouble.

When I got my first M96, it shot phenomenally with Remington core-lokt factory loads, so I orderd 3 more, but couldn't find ammo after that point.