Would you pull the trigger on a 10 Ga Derringer - Page 2

IMTHDUKE · February 18, 2011, 03:34 PM

I'll try anything twice.

Jimmy10mm · February 18, 2011, 03:50 PM

I googled 10 ga. derringer with no success save this thread and references to .410 stuff. If there was such an animal I don't hate myself so I wouldn't subject my hand to the punishment.

iblong · February 18, 2011, 04:50 PM

Nope!

overkill0084 · February 18, 2011, 05:04 PM

Not no, but hell no. But I might pay to watch someone else do it.

Stevie-Ray · February 18, 2011, 05:31 PM

Not a chance in hell. Well, except for maybe shooting the bear in the face before it eats me. I guess that would be worth a mere broken hand.

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Admittedly the one I saw was beat up, but lets pretend its a beauty.

I'm quite sure they're all beat up. Comes from flying out of your hand and hitting the ground.

BGutzman · February 18, 2011, 11:36 PM

If I dont get snowed in this weekend (which seems likely that I will) I will run down to cabelas and see if they still have it and if I can get a pic.

The thing was very old and really beat up, it had a thinner barrel than the average derringer type pistol (if one were to mentally scale it up.)

Celo456 · February 18, 2011, 11:41 PM

I don't think my better jdgement would win over my curiosity. I also suffer from a condition I can only describe as a lack of healthy fear. Load the 10, exhale and squeeze

orionengnr · February 18, 2011, 11:50 PM

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I also suffer from a condition I can only describe as a lack of healthy fear.

Yep, BTDT. When you are 20 or 25, it's all fun and games. When you are 55, you will wake up each day with pain in many body parts, some pleasant memories, and a number of regrets....that is, provided you make it to 55.

Many who make stupid choices do not. I can give you a roll call of my deceased friends/acquaintances if you like, but it will mean nothng to you...at least for another 30 years or so. At which time you will have your own list, and you will be trying to convince the next generation, who will not be listening either...

Such is life.

hondauto · February 19, 2011, 01:02 AM

prolly not..
That sounds painful,let alone how it feels..
I MIGHT shoot a 12 GA derringer,but not sure on that either.

armsmaster270 · February 19, 2011, 01:12 AM

10GA Very pistol is as close as I'll ever get.

egor20 · February 19, 2011, 01:20 AM

It depends, is this back when I was 18 and had just done the bottle of Mescal and ate the worm......??

Then yes.......................................

gb_in_ga · February 19, 2011, 01:53 AM

Quick answer: No.

Longer answer: Not under any sane set of conditions, but I will concede that if it is all I have between myself and certain death then, well, BLAM! I'll deal with the after effects afterwards.

Kinda like a Howda, right? Pleasant isn't the name of the game, compact close-in firepower is.

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When you are 55, you will wake up each day with pain in many body parts, some pleasant memories, and a number of regrets....that is, provided you make it to 55.

Yep. I haven't made it there, yet. But it is right around the corner. Less than a year off. I've done my fair share of "stupid, testosterone loaded stunts". Sanity has set in. I just don't feel the need to prove myself to anyone, and I have no desire to engage in pain for pain's sake. Phooey on that. I've got enough of that already.

triumph666 · February 19, 2011, 02:24 AM

i'd put on my helmet and heavy leather gloves and happily fire that SOB just for poops an giggles

Molasses · February 19, 2011, 12:58 PM

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If I dont get snowed in this weekend (which seems likely that I will) I will run down to cabelas and see if they still have it and if I can get a pic.

I see you're in Mpls, so was that at the Rogers store or did you happen to go down to Owatonna or what? Just thinking that I'd like to see this monstrosity for myself.

As for shooting such a thing; only if they let me pick the ammo.

kozak6 · February 19, 2011, 05:23 PM

It would be cheaper just to wallop my hand with a sledgehammer.

aryfrosty · February 19, 2011, 08:05 PM

I don't want to sound like a 'rainer on parades' but I have never encountered a 10 ga Derringer, especially in Cabelas.
Could what you saw have been their "Howdah" pistol? It is a side x side double barrel in .20 gauge and blackpowder. It replicates the Howdahs used for large cat hunting from Elephant back. The little rattan/wicker cage you sat in on Br'er Tembo's back was called a Howdah. There was use of one in the film "Ghost and the Darkness" about a couple of people eating kitty cats in Africa.

HoraceHogsnort · February 20, 2011, 01:46 PM

I'd rather stick my head into a revolving cement mixer!

Webleymkv · February 20, 2011, 01:53 PM

Yes, but only with a long string from behind a tree.

BGutzman · February 20, 2011, 02:00 PM

Molasses it was at the Owatonna store, toward the entrance of the gun library.

You cant miss it if its there....

stokesj19 · February 20, 2011, 04:07 PM

No need to sprain my wrist. And I am a big guy 6'6 275, and I think it would hurt.

publius · February 20, 2011, 07:41 PM

If the price was reeeeal good and it was well made I might buy it. I definitely would shoot one given the opportunity.

Bill DeShivs · February 20, 2011, 07:51 PM

I think Aryfrosty is correct on this one.
Cabela's " Howdah" pistol is a double barreled SxS 20 gauge muzzle loader.
I have seen an awful lot of guns in my time, and I have never seen a 10 ga. derringer. The very size of the shells would proclude a derringer being made in this size. The gun would be much larger than an "N" frame S&W.

BGutzman · February 20, 2011, 10:08 PM

It may not have been exactly a derringer , it was a derringer style and it was a definitively 10 GA, it appeared to be heavy brass or brass colored, it was beat up.

Cheapshooter · February 21, 2011, 01:03 AM

Did it say 10 Ga. Brass Dbl barrel large bore pistol, I'm thinking flare gun!!! Being brass, and old it could have been antique enough for Cabela's library.

Lashlarue · February 21, 2011, 10:42 AM

My late father in law had a 10 guage double barrel shotgun that had been handed down to him.One New Years I fired it at midnight, took a week or longer for the bruise to fade.On D-day I fired a 12 ga.,dislocated my shoulder, I was seven at the time.In 1953 before there were clothes dryers,we had a starling problem, making hanging up clothes to dry a roll of the dice.Management paid for the ammo and my best friend , his father and myself fired several hundred rounds. We killed about 500 and the remaining found a new location to roost.After graduation we moved to northern Kentucky, and my new best friend lived at the top of a hill in log cabin his father had built. We had a routine, I would drive up there, we would shoot a box of slugs at a quarter wedged into the bark.Drive downtown and get a shoeshine then pickup our dates, at the end the date we would drop off the girls then go eat at the Crystal chili parlor.To answer the question, not no but hell no! My cardiologist told me to sell my high powered pistols as the recoil might interfere with the stents installed in two of my arteries.

February 18, 2011, 03:34 PM	#26
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February 18, 2011, 05:04 PM	#29
overkill0084 Senior Member Join Date: August 7, 2010 Location: Northern, UT Posts: 1,162	Not no, but hell no. But I might pay to watch someone else do it. __________________ Cheers, Greg “At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.” — P.J. O’Rourke

February 18, 2011, 11:36 PM	#31
BGutzman Senior Member Join Date: December 4, 2009 Location: Frozen Tundra Posts: 2,414	If I dont get snowed in this weekend (which seems likely that I will) I will run down to cabelas and see if they still have it and if I can get a pic. The thing was very old and really beat up, it had a thinner barrel than the average derringer type pistol (if one were to mentally scale it up.) __________________ Molon Labe

February 19, 2011, 01:12 AM	#35
armsmaster270 Senior Member Join Date: November 25, 2008 Location: California Posts: 1,951	10GA Very pistol is as close as I'll ever get. __________________ http://www.armsmaster.net-a.googlepages.com http://s239.photobucket.com/albums/f...aster270/Guns/ Retired LE, M.P., Sr. M.P. Investigator F.B.I. Trained Rangemaster/Firearms Instructor & Armorer, Presently Forensic Document Examiner for D.H.S.

February 19, 2011, 01:20 AM	#36
egor20 Senior Member Join Date: November 14, 2010 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 1,824	It depends, is this back when I was 18 and had just done the bottle of Mescal and ate the worm......?? Then yes....................................... __________________ Chief stall mucker and grain chef Country don't mean dumb. Steven King. The Stand

February 18, 2011, 04:50 PM	#28
iblong Senior Member Join Date: October 1, 2008 Location: MN Posts: 559	Nope!

February 18, 2011, 11:41 PM	#32
Celo456 Member Join Date: December 12, 2009 Location: Nassau County, New York Posts: 25	I don't think my better jdgement would win over my curiosity. I also suffer from a condition I can only describe as a lack of healthy fear. Load the 10, exhale and squeeze

February 19, 2011, 01:02 AM	#34
hondauto Member Join Date: October 26, 2010 Location: broomfield,co Posts: 82	prolly not.. That sounds painful,let alone how it feels.. I MIGHT shoot a 12 GA derringer,but not sure on that either.

February 19, 2011, 02:24 AM	#38
triumph666 Senior Member Join Date: January 11, 2011 Posts: 374	i'd put on my helmet and heavy leather gloves and happily fire that SOB just for poops an giggles

February 19, 2011, 05:23 PM	#40
kozak6 Senior Member Join Date: June 16, 2005 Location: AZ Posts: 3,113	It would be cheaper just to wallop my hand with a sledgehammer.

February 19, 2011, 08:05 PM	#41
aryfrosty Senior Member Join Date: September 14, 2010 Location: Concord, NH Posts: 209	10 gauge? I don't want to sound like a 'rainer on parades' but I have never encountered a 10 ga Derringer, especially in Cabelas. Could what you saw have been their "Howdah" pistol? It is a side x side double barrel in .20 gauge and blackpowder. It replicates the Howdahs used for large cat hunting from Elephant back. The little rattan/wicker cage you sat in on Br'er Tembo's back was called a Howdah. There was use of one in the film "Ghost and the Darkness" about a couple of people eating kitty cats in Africa. __________________ 'At the end of the fight is a tombstone white with the name of the late deceased...And the epitaph drear, "a fool lies here who tried to hustle the east."'

February 20, 2011, 01:46 PM	#42
HoraceHogsnort Senior Member Join Date: February 28, 2008 Location: Stanislaus Co., Mexifornia Posts: 615	I'd rather stick my head into a revolving cement mixer!

February 20, 2011, 01:53 PM	#43
Webleymkv Senior Member Join Date: July 20, 2005 Location: Indiana Posts: 10,446	Would you pull the trigger on a 10ga Derringer? Yes, but only with a long string from behind a tree.

February 20, 2011, 02:00 PM	#44
BGutzman Senior Member Join Date: December 4, 2009 Location: Frozen Tundra Posts: 2,414	Molasses it was at the Owatonna store, toward the entrance of the gun library. You cant miss it if its there.... __________________ Molon Labe

February 20, 2011, 04:07 PM	#45
stokesj19 Senior Member Join Date: March 5, 2007 Location: DALLAS Posts: 301	No need to sprain my wrist. And I am a big guy 6'6 275, and I think it would hurt. __________________ The secret is don't tell your wife the combo to your safe, and she won't know how many you actually have.

February 20, 2011, 07:41 PM	#46
publius Senior Member Join Date: January 25, 2005 Location: Mississippi/Texas Posts: 2,505	If the price was reeeeal good and it was well made I might buy it. I definitely would shoot one given the opportunity. __________________ "Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress, but I repeat myself." Mark Twain

February 20, 2011, 07:51 PM	#47
Bill DeShivs Senior Member Join Date: April 7, 2006 Posts: 10,985	I think Aryfrosty is correct on this one. Cabela's " Howdah" pistol is a double barreled SxS 20 gauge muzzle loader. I have seen an awful lot of guns in my time, and I have never seen a 10 ga. derringer. The very size of the shells would proclude a derringer being made in this size. The gun would be much larger than an "N" frame S&W. __________________ Bill DeShivs, Master Cutler www.billdeshivs.com

February 20, 2011, 10:08 PM	#48
BGutzman Senior Member Join Date: December 4, 2009 Location: Frozen Tundra Posts: 2,414	It may not have been exactly a derringer , it was a derringer style and it was a definitively 10 GA, it appeared to be heavy brass or brass colored, it was beat up. __________________ Molon Labe Last edited by BGutzman; February 20, 2011 at 10:29 PM.

February 21, 2011, 01:03 AM	#49
Cheapshooter Senior Member Join Date: December 2, 2007 Location: Missouri Posts: 8,306	Did it say 10 Ga. Brass Dbl barrel large bore pistol, I'm thinking flare gun!!! Being brass, and old it could have been antique enough for Cabela's library. __________________ Cheapshooter's rules of gun ownership #1: NEVER SELL OR TRADE ANYTHING! Last edited by Cheapshooter; February 21, 2011 at 01:31 AM.

February 21, 2011, 10:42 AM	#50
Lashlarue Senior Member Join Date: September 26, 2008 Posts: 533	My late father in law had a 10 guage double barrel shotgun that had been handed down to him.One New Years I fired it at midnight, took a week or longer for the bruise to fade.On D-day I fired a 12 ga.,dislocated my shoulder, I was seven at the time.In 1953 before there were clothes dryers,we had a starling problem, making hanging up clothes to dry a roll of the dice.Management paid for the ammo and my best friend , his father and myself fired several hundred rounds. We killed about 500 and the remaining found a new location to roost.After graduation we moved to northern Kentucky, and my new best friend lived at the top of a hill in log cabin his father had built. We had a routine, I would drive up there, we would shoot a box of slugs at a quarter wedged into the bark.Drive downtown and get a shoeshine then pickup our dates, at the end the date we would drop off the girls then go eat at the Crystal chili parlor.To answer the question, not no but hell no! My cardiologist told me to sell my high powered pistols as the recoil might interfere with the stents installed in two of my arteries. __________________ I've made a lot of money in my life, most was spent on booze, babes, guns, and poker,the rest I wasted!