Air nailer.

What I did when I was shopping for a nailer was to stick with the deepest angle I could find that had nails that were readily available. The deeper the angle, the more easily you can nail in tight spaces. I ended up with a Hitachi nailer, I don’t remember what model number.

The angles are within a few degrees. There are plastic, wire, and paper collated. Stay away from universal guns. Find one that is comfortable to work with and in your budget.

-- Pat, Colorado

Is 10 gauge a framing nail? If it is, you may want to check your local building codes. Many places require round head nails and do not permit the use of clipped head nails.

I have had 2 framing nailers, a porter cable which I lost in the shop fire and a Rigid which was the replacement. Both are excelent tools. As near as I can find out the advantage to cliped head nails is that they can get more nails in a strip. This might be important to a framer, but I always opt for the round head because even home projects can require a permit and inspection. My experience is that inspecters are really hair spliters particularrly with people who do thier own work rather than hire a contractor. It would be just my luck to have some hair spliter tell me I have to replace every nail in my new 50×100 barn because I used cliped nails instead of round. I would be more concerned wit the differant lengths of nail the gun will take. Some things just don’t need 3” nails but some do. rt

-- RTB. "dumb animals are not stupid they simply can't talk "

I want to thank everybody for their input

-- GEORGE

Bostich F28WW is by far the most used in my area, I’ve never used anything else. Did you mean 10d rather than 10 gage? 10d=3’‘

-- Ciao, gth.