What gun do you think of when you think of a classic turkey gun?

[Jc69]

I'm sure a "classic turkey gun" has a different meaning for everyone and also is probably different for different areas and different time periods.  When I think of a classic Turkey Gun, I guess a Remington 1100 comes to mind where I live in the Ozark Mountains.  The Reason is when I think back to grandparents, parents and father in law and looking back at old pictures, the 1100 hundred seems to be the most popular and probably followed by an 870.  I think the 1100 was popular because it came out in the early 60's and it seemed like the Turkey numbers were improving in the ozarks from the early 60s up until 2000ish.  My father in law who loved turkey hunting(was born in 1944) said the 1100 came out at the time when he was in his early 20s and he finally had a decent number of turkeys to really get into it and it was different than the A5s and Model 11 that his dad had used.

[highball]

remington 870

[Tom007]

remington 870

X2, the Old School Greenleaf 21 inch barrel.......

[paboxcall]

To me an 835 wearing original Realtree camo = turkey hunter.

[Tom007]

To me an 835 wearing original Realtree camo = turkey hunter.

Great gun there

[crow]

A SXS,

Just ask Archibald Rutledge, Henry Davis, and Rev. Zach Farmer

[ChesterCopperpot]

Model 12.


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[RED NECK]

Winchester 1300 is one of my age groups "classics" and since It was my first one and I still have it, I'll say it.

[7shooter]

Browning Auto 5

[PALongspur]

Remington 870

[shatcher]

A SXS,

Just ask Archibald Rutledge, Henry Davis, and Rev. Zach Farmer

This. If I go 12, older Ithaca Turkeyslayer!  What say you, Greg?

[Loyalist84]

Admittedly there aren't many 'classic' guns in my area, but I'd go for a Winchester Model 12 Heavy Duck, an Ithaca NID 10ga, or an HE "Super Fox" double, if I had to switch to a turkey gun a generation or two older than the ones I tote in the woods today.

[Spring Creek Calls]

Winchesters, Model 12 and then 1300's. I still hunt both.

[sswv]

21" Remington 870

[Ol Yelper]

When I started turkey hunting in the early 80s alot of guys swore by those H&R 10 ga. I tried one and nope not for me. Remington 870, 1100, and 1187 a few years later.