Favorite turkey combo.

[ants]

Thought I would just throw it out there. What is your favorite turkey combo, as far and gun, load and choke. ( Im bored and itching for May 1st.) Mine is Winchester Double X 3 1/2" 2.1/4oz. of #5's out of my Mossberg 835's factory choke. I have tried after market chokes but they don't seem to be much better than the factory choke.

[letinmfly]

835 shooting 3" Winchester Supreme High Velocity #5's

[TeeBugg]

H&R 12 gauge, fixed modified throwing winchester supreme 3" #5

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[jr.deerslayer]

I use Federal Premium Mag shoks copper plated. 10 gauge 3.5, 2oz. #4 out of a Browning Gold with factory extra full extended choke. 

[518BowSlayer]

Mossberg 500 12 gauge, Truglo Strut Stopper Xtreme choke, Remington Premier High-Velocity Copper-Plated Buffered Turkey Loads #5. And... PSE Fire Flight with 100 grain Magnus Bullheads. All Head Shots!!!

[Five Seasons]

Mossberg 835, muller reflex site, pure gold choke, hevi-13. Lot of research for chokes and the pure gold had some of the best followings on oldgobbler.com

Edited March 17, 2014 by Belo

[G-Man]

mossberg 835 turkey gun, backbored and jugged barrel .65 comp n choke with either 5 or 6 winchester xx 3.5 in topped with a reddot sight. ... good to 60 yards... cant shoot a bird closer than 20 though its like throwing a slug....

[maytom]

Winchester 1300, backbored and ported barrel, Rhino .660 choke, Nitro tri-plex heavishot  4x5x7 load

[bowslinger]

mssberg 500 mod choke winchester surprimes 23/4 4 shot 

[Terry]

Rem 870supermag, Hevi-13 choke, Hevi-13 3-1/2" magblends.

[ants]

I know a guy who swears by 3" steel water fowl shot out of a mod. choke. He says he gets super tight patterns (because of the steel). I think I'll stick to turkey loads.

[Five Seasons]

Like all things hunting many combos, weapons etc will get it done. For most it's just about increasing the odds.

[rotorooter23]

Benelli Super Nova, Hevi-shot Magna-blend 3 1/2 in, Kicks gobbling thunder choke, ring of fire sight, devastating patterns.

Edited March 19, 2014 by rotorooter23

[dbHunterNY]

so far I'm still tinkering but I believe the best has been from a Pure Gold ported turkey choke and 3.5" #6 Hevi-shot from a Benelli Supernova 26" barrel.

[ants]

Can you use a ported choke tube in a barrel thats already ported?? I have been wondering about that. I don't thing it would be dangerous but is there such a thing as too much porting screwing up patterns?

[Fantail]

My 1300 w/tri-viz sight, gobble stopper choke & Federal premiums.

[TeeBugg]

Dad just said i could use his marlin 55...36" barrel full choke 3 shot bolt action....cant wait to sight it in!

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[Five Seasons]

36"? Holy crap. Most turkey guns are under24"

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[Five Seasons]

Can you use a ported choke tube in a barrel thats already ported?? I have been wondering about that. I don't thing it would be dangerous but is there such a thing as too much porting screwing up patterns?

Good question. Both my choke and barrel are.

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[dbHunterNY]

Can you use a ported choke tube in a barrel thats already ported?? I have been wondering about that. I don't thing it would be dangerous but is there such a thing as too much porting screwing up patterns?

 

I think the ported barrel is more to minimize upward movement of the muzzle, but the ported choke is more to prevent blown patterns.  I say blown patterns being the gas pushing straight out through the wad and shot cluster, which hurts keeping it all tight together.  that's what I think.

[TeeBugg]

36"? Holy crap. Most turkey guns are under24"Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They call it the goose gun haha! I guess they used to use it for turkeys before my dad got it. Cant wait to sight it in!

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[ants]

One of the farmers, who I hunt with, used a Marlin "goose gun" on deer for years until the zone changed to rifle 8 or 10 years ago. Same thing,36" barrel and bolt action. He fabricated a scope mount for it and put a Tasco 3-9 on it. He would make amazing shots with that thing and I have no idea how many deer he killed with it, but it was a lot. We jokingly called it "the doose gun" because he used it for deer.

[Pygmy]

Remington 11-87 SP 12 gauge 3", factory treebark camo, 21" barrel with Kick's .665" Gobbling thunder tube.

I use either Federal Heavyweight 2 oz. loads OR Win XX 2 oz. loads of buffered, copper plated #6 shot.

I have used several differnt sighting systems, but the present one is a Leupold 1x4x 20MM vari-X II scope.