AbsolutelyPencils are pretty common round here
I remember an old post where a Game Warden visiting a dove field realized that the pencil used for a shotgun plug was almost too short to exclude the third magazine shell. He worked about thirty minutes until he was able to break the pencil and "hammer" in the extra shell and write the ticket.
Yes I've noticed that some shells are different lengths... the Federal shells tend to be a lil longer than Remington shells.The 2.75 shells that are being made today are a little shorter than they use to be.
I have a Rem 870 Express 3" mag, that will accept a 3 shell in the chamber, if you push it really hard, with the factory green plastic plug installed. Most of the time the third shell will not stay in the mag and render the shotgun inoperable, while the jam is cleared.
Went to remove the plug from the Rem 1100mag and this was in there; a cardboard tube from a coat hanger for slacks... lol
A rite of passage when growing up. You had to be able to snap off a sweetgum branch the right length, remove the end cap, put the sweetgum plug in, get the gun back together and operable. All on a dead run.
There are a few of us who grew up in a culture that allows us to understand and relate with that post.A rite of passage when growing up. You had to be able to snap off a sweetgum branch the right length, remove the end cap, put the sweetgum plug in, get the gun back together and operable. All on a dead run.