Just interested in what everyone has to go out and kill turkeys. I'll start. I have a Max4 Stoeger M3500 with a Primos JellyHead choke tube. I patterned with the Winchester LongBeard and got awesome results. I'm ordering a pistol grip stock soon.
DIY camo'ed 870 26" barrel, truglo sights, kicks choke tube and 3" longbeards, providing of course this combo patterns well.
im using a Beretta pintail 24 inch barrel, 3inch shells. I have 4 chokes but have only patterned with two. So far the hevi choke patterns with longbeard #5s excellent out to 50 yards but will keep shots at 40yards. This way if the turkey is really at 45, I will still get a good hit.
New for this year I will be hunting with a burris fastfire III. I have used red dots on pistols with great success so I feel this will work well for me.
Full disclosure: I bagged a hen during fall this past year but I don't count her as a turkey kill because I was actually bow hunting for deer and she just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Stoeger M2000 w/Primos Tight Wad & "blended" turkey shells.
last year I carried a Stoeger 3500, 28" barrel with a Primos tightwad and magblends. got good patterns out of it but it's just a heavy gun.
This year I'll be toting a Winchester 1300, 22" barrel and I'm going to start with the tightwad/magblend combo and see how it performs. I'm about to order a pistol grip stock for it as well, plus the Williams Fire Sights.
that Winchester is a full 3 pounds lighter than the stoeger
Mathews Chill 70lbs bow, set to 58lbs for hunting. Will try once again to get my Gobbler with this in a blind set up near Gobblers morning hang out. If they move on OR get hung up, then I'll have my Stoeger 12G with Long Beard #6s ready to go. Already patterned this gun with my new burris FastFire lll. Seems like a sweet set up. WE shall see!
M2000 max4 stoeger with 26 inch barrel, carlsons turkey choke, and 3 inch #6 remington turkey loads.
Quote from: ScottS on January 20, 2015, 02:10:47 PM
M2000 max4 stoeger with 26 inch barrel, carlsons turkey choke, and 3 inch #6 remington turkey loads.
Carlsons make the best waterfowl choke in my opinion. I was unaware that they made a turkey choke. I'm sure it's awesome.
66lb Hoyt Carbon Spyder Turbo
ABB Platinum strings/cables
Spot hogg hogg father single pin sights
10" bee stinger stabilizer
QAD HDX rest
I do have a beretta a400 that I use for ducks but I really want to bag my first bird with my bow.
Quote from: JuniorPre 360 on January 21, 2015, 12:44:54 PM
Quote from: ScottS on January 20, 2015, 02:10:47 PM
M2000 max4 stoeger with 26 inch barrel, carlsons turkey choke, and 3 inch #6 remington turkey loads.
Carlsons make the best waterfowl choke in my opinion. I was unaware that they made a turkey choke. I'm sure it's awesome.
I love it and the good thing about carlsons is they don't break the bank like some of the other brands but they still perform well. I bought mine probably four years ago.
20ga 21'' 870, homebrew camo, sureshot stock, polished barrel, trs25 red dot, ssx choke, throwing HW 7's.
How do you like your Spot hogg hogg father single?Quote from: Efey on January 21, 2015, 12:48:32 PM
66lb Hoyt Carbon Spyder Turbo
ABB Platinum strings/cables
Spot hogg hogg father single pin sights
10" bee stinger stabilizer
QAD HDX rest
I do have a beretta a400 that I use for ducks but I really want to bag my first bird with my bow.
So I finally gave my old Winchester 1300 a makeover....added the Phoenix Technologies stock and a set of Williams Fire Sights. I'm also thinking about adding a Mossy Oak Bottomland tape kit until I can save up some cash to have it dipped. Here's the before/after.
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Looks good Gomer, now camo that bad boy up
My burris fastfire III just came in. Definitely seems nice so far. I'll sight it in this weekend. Definitely getting more excited the closer we get to May 1st!!!
Would love to upgrade to a ff3.
Quote from: Bigeclipse on March 25, 2015, 04:01:53 PM
My burris fastfire III just came in. Definitely seems nice so far. I'll sight it in this weekend. Definitely getting more excited the closer we get to May 1st!!!
Congrats, I think optics will be needed for me next year. I just put adjustable truglo open sights on last fall, and I noticed a problem with them at the range this year. The front bead is getting fuzzy, I don't know what's wrong with the truglo LOL. Most every rifle and even several of handguns have scopes, so I guess I never noticed my vision being a issue with open sights.
Two things that I have to get over(in my mind)with optics for spring turkey, is the fear of batteries going bad, and rain drops on the glass.
The cool thing for my setup is the saddle mount im using. I know some people don't like saddle mounts but the one thing I like is that should my Fastfire fail, there is a space you can see that goes through the mount so you can still see the front bead and use that if necessary.