Went out patterning my Remington 870 12GA (one more time)..

ButchA · 03-09-2003, 06:06 PM

I was at the range at the WMA here in Virginia earlier today. I went to double check the pattern with some Winchester Supreme HV 3" magnum #5' s. My lefty Remington 870 Express has some Tru-Glo trupoint clip-on turkey sights on it, and a Star-dot X-Full ported choke tube.

Anyway, due to people already there skeet shooting, I couldn' t spread out or get out very far on the side edge of the skeet range, so I was only about 25 yards (paced off by foot).

Well, at 25 yards with my 870 12GA, the Winchester Supreme HV #5' s, patterned incredible at such close range. I counted 44 pellets in the red bullseye on the turkey target. On the whole turkey image itself there' s (I think - I might have lost count) about 115 pellets.

Man, if I EVER get the chance to call a gobbler in that close, I know he' s gonna be a dead turkey!!

Butch

PAhunter86 · 03-09-2003, 06:15 PM

Sounds good, when does your season open in VA?

ButchA · 03-09-2003, 07:02 PM

Virginia spring gobbler starts April 12th.... I can' t wait!

Butch

maytom · 03-10-2003, 04:39 AM

Sounds like you have a great combo going there!! You should check your pattern out to 35 yards as well. That winchester shell your using is one of my favoritres too!!

MOTurkeyTamer · 03-10-2003, 04:38 PM

Butch, I shoot an 870 with the same Win. load you are using and I can vouch for the fact that it is an awesome combo. I have patterned mine out to 40 yds. with a Kick' s .665 choke. I have 2 pieces of pallet cardboard which I shot @ 40 yds. last spring. One of them has only 24 pellets outside the 30" ring and the other has only 14 outside the 30" ring. That is way up in the 90% range for pellets inside a 30" circle @ 40 yds.! The 20-30 yd. shots, which is the range I shoot at turkeys the most, are unbelievably dense. No need to look any further for a lethal turkey combo. Butch, hope you get a biggun' this spring with your setup!

Mr. Longbeard · 03-10-2003, 05:45 PM

I just love reading stories about Remington turkey guns just tearing up a turkey target!!!!!!! I' ll bet you could take the choke out of one and still kill turkeys out to 40 yards.... Just kidding

Mikey S. · 03-10-2003, 05:59 PM

O.K. Mr. Longbeard, I have another " Big R" story for ya.........and you too Butch.....I almost shot without a choke....

Shot my 870 this weekend with my brand new Tru-Glo choke. But......before I even opened it up, just out of curiosity, I fired my first couple rounds (1 5/8 Hevi-shot, #6) at 30 yds. out of my factory Modified choke. 25 hits in the kill zone area on a Primos target. Not to shabby, pretty good for a 30 yard woods gun I think. Then, in went the tru-glo, and $60 and one trigger pull later, 52 hits at 30 yards. Now were talkin turkey dinner. At 40 I got around 20 hits, but since that choke is rated for #4 or #5 shot, my next batch of shells will be one of those. So fire that baby up at 40 yards Butch and tell us what she does!
Mikey

Mr. Longbeard · 03-10-2003, 06:04 PM

Mikey S. I also have the Tru Glo choke in my Remington and got the same results you got at 40 yards. I think i will be trying my gun with the factory full just to see if the Hevi Shot patterns any better.

Mikey S. · 03-10-2003, 06:12 PM

I thunk about that too, hopefully I won' t kick myself for not trying a $15 choke tube after spending $60.....

Mikey S. · 03-10-2003, 06:20 PM

One more thing Mr. Longbeard.... I measured the inside of my modified choke tube with a dial caliper, and averaged somewhere around .710" . From what I have seen most hevi-shot tubes have a constriction of .675 I think, so the factory full may be closer to that size.....??

Mikey