davecooper1 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 My silver pigeon S has 3 and half inch chambers :yes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royboy Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Picked it up today. Made up with it but ive not fired it yet ! It was £1050 from Bamfords Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DOLLSEYES Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 It's called a "silver pigeon steel" it has 3 1/2" chambers and is made for the wildfowling market.The only difference between this and a normal 3" chambered silver pigeon is the barrels are heavier/thicker walled.Good gun always wanted one myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royboy Posted January 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 It's called a "silver pigeon steel" it has 3 1/2" chambers and is made for the wildfowling market.The only difference between this and a normal 3" chambered silver pigeon is the barrels are heavier/thicker walled.Good gun always wanted one myself. So is it a Silver pigeon S ? Thats what it says on the paper work.Does the S stand for Steel ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HDAV Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 My bettinsolli handbook says limited to half choke for steel so rather arogant for BACS to go against manufacturer Does it say for all steel including clay loads? or "HP Steel" or just "Steel"? Standard Steel shot cannot be larger than 3.25mm i.e. English no.3, but can beused through any choke. There is no limit on shot size in High Performance Steel cartridges but if it is greater than 4.0mm (i.e. English BB or larger) then choke less than half should be used. Arrogant or correct? You decide whose advice you follow..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beardo Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 It would appear there is a Silver Pigeon S Steel Proofed Magnum available. The S is not Steel in the name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilR Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 (edited) Mine has KG 1,480 on it (which if i'm correct is 1451 bar?) - which is HP Steel. According to Beretta, you need to make sure the chokes have SP on them and not tighter than modified. Nick, I think you'll find that the weight is that of your barrels. My S687 barrels are stamped 1.540kg and on my digital cooking scales they come up as 1.549kg. My Perazzi's barrels are stamped with their weight. I wouldn't use the weight figure as a calculation for anything else. I think the S stands for Sporter. Edited January 20, 2012 by PhilR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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