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Thanks Ruger 450.

You can talk to me directly, guys, I'm in the same room. Ask me directly what I mean.


I don't want to get into a protracted whizzing contest over minutia or definitions...my understanding of a "Paradox" gun is a gun with a smooth bore and a section of rifling so you could shoot both bullets and shot. The ammo wasn't "special", the rifle was. It used shot shells for one type of game and cartridge's with a 740 grain round nose bullet for another.


So tell me...by definition...when I install a rifled choke tube on any of those smooth bores, they become a "Paradox Gun" with a capital "P" and when I take off the rifled tube and install a smooth tube and shoot slugs in it along with shot shells it becomes just another ordinary "paradox" gun with a small "p"...and if I were to decide to chuck the rifled gauge gun barrels in my lathe and remove all but 3" of rifling, the gun would become a "True" "Paradox gun". N'est-ce pas?

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Yes no and kinda. Paradoxes shoot to the sites with ball ammo and pattern ic as a shotgun. The shot ammo used in the period guns wasn't special but the ball ammo was. Your gun with removable chokes could be considered a "paradox" that is the gun and both sets of chokes. I doubt if your rifled gun would pattern well with part of the rifling removed and may not shoot well either. The "magic" of a paradox was/is in the barrels and their ability to function as both a rifle and shotgun. Modern hard cast slugs if used in an older gun could bulge the barrel when passing through the choke section so it is somewhat important to clarify exactly what type of gun is being referenced when talking about loading for these "paradox" guns.

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Edited by gatsby (14/04/14 03:15 PM)

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