26 inch barrels on shot gun

[Towngun]

On 07/11/2024 at 18:42, Scully said:

Your paragraphs concerning technical factors and steel shot have no relevance to barrel length I’m afraid, only concerning choke, and while I have nothing against thread resurrection, I feel the OP may have moved on a tad by now. 🙂

I don't believe any reference to barrel length was implied other than the association between open chokes and skeet guns from earlier times. Yes we have moved on and sadly moved onto steel shot which is being foisted upon us (without peer reviewed science). Open chokes have come full circle and are now back in discussion. 

 

[Scully]

21 minutes ago, Towngun said:

I don't believe any reference to barrel length was implied 

 

The title of the thread is ‘26 inch barrels on a shotgun’. 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

[ditchman]

26" barrells   SxS.....cylinder and half.....26 or 28gm  #7 cartridges................made in heaven for people who like to shoot....

[udderlyoffroad]

On 07/11/2024 at 20:47, enfieldspares said:

It keeps hearing aid manufacturers in long term gainful employment. You OTOH go deaf. So maybe now a decade and a half later the OP can confirm if that is also true for him?

Ok I’ll bite. Given you should be wearing hearing protection regardless of barrel length, how is this relevant let alone true for practical purposes?

Or are you suggesting a shorter barrel requires more attenuation in your hearing protection? If so, how much?

[enfieldspares]

1 hour ago, udderlyoffroad said:

Ok I’ll bite. Given you should be wearing hearing protection regardless of barrel length, how is this relevant let alone true for practical purposes?

Or are you suggesting a shorter barrel requires more attenuation in your hearing protection? If so, how much?

'Tis an old thread when it started but..

I think there are still many who don't wear hearing protection when shooting live game as, especially when walking up or rough shooting, they want to be able to hear the slightest sound. Either to know if a bird is there, or ground game, or if there is about to flush. I'd sense that sensible folk wear ear protection of barrel length but, yes, twenty-six inch barrels put the noise nearer the firer's ear on the non-firing side. Attenuation level? Buy the best that you can get IMHO.

Only last year or 2022 I had a client, a woman, who told me could I stand on her right side when speaking with her as she was deaf in the left ear. I asked "Did you do a lot of shooting carbines?". She was a bit taken aback..with her having a Northern Irish accent..but then did say "Yes. I was a weapons instructor with the RUC for twenty years. How could you have known?" To which I told her that I shot, had friends that shot both police armed response and military and that left ear impaired hearing was the classic "tell".

My late father shot in the 1960s two days a week at Woburn and at Kedleston. My brother was just old enough to sometimes go with him. He said that at lunch you'd see the guns with the Churchill XXV or the Holland's Brevis tuning in their hearing aids. So yes short barrels make you go deaf quicker.

Edited January 9 by enfieldspares

[Westley]

41 minutes ago, enfieldspares said:

'Tis an old thread when it started but..

I think there are still many who don't wear hearing protection when shooting live game as, especially when walking up or rough shooting, they want to be able to hear the slightest sound. Either to know if a bird is there, or ground game, or if there is about to flush. I'd sense that sensible folk wear ear protection of barrel length but, yes, twenty-six inch barrels put the noise nearer the firer's ear on the non-firing side. Attenuation level? Buy the best that you can get IMHO.

Only last year or 2022 I had a client, a woman, who told me could I stand on her right side when speaking with her as she was deaf in the left ear. I asked "Did you do a lot of shooting carbines?". She was a bit taken aback..with her having a Northern Irish accent..but then did say "Yes. I was a weapons instructor with the RUC for twenty years. How could you have known?" To which I told her that I shot, had friends that shot both police armed response and military and that left ear impaired hearing was the classic "tell".

My late father shot in the 1960s two days a week at Woburn and at Kedleston. My brother was just old enough to sometimes go with him. He said that at lunch you'd see the guns with the Churchill XXV or the Holland's Brevis tuning in their hearing aids. So yes short barrels make you go deaf quicker.

In that case, maybe I am the exception  ! I am totally deaf in my right ear and it is my left ear that does all of the work. I shot a 26" barrel S x S for many years. I was a Police Firearms Officer,  and I have been a Shooting Instructor for over 30 years. It was a minor stroke that claimed my hearing. I never noticed any difference between my 26" barrels and my 28" barrel S x S guns, in their handling or their performance. 

 

Edited January 9 by Westley

[enfieldspares]

2 minutes ago, Westley said:

In that case, maybe I am the exception  ! I am totally deaf in my right ear and it is my left ear that does all of the work. I shot a 26" barrel S x S for many years. I was a Police Firearms Officer,  and I have been a Shooting Instructor for over 30 years. It was a minor stroke that claimed my hearing.

 

Ah that I reckon is from pistol shooting as the right ear is nearest the pistol for a right handed shot. With a shoulder fired gun it is the left ear. 

[Westley]

1 hour ago, enfieldspares said:

Ah that I reckon is from pistol shooting as the right ear is nearest the pistol for a right handed shot. With a shoulder fired gun it is the left ear. 

And probably the PPE not quite being up to today's standards  ??

[Scully]

7 hours ago, Westley said:

And probably the PPE not quite being up to today's standards  ??

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