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12-28-2005 | 06:39 PM

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StrutnBPS

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From: Bennettsville, SC

RE: Setting Up for Turkey

Well said!!!

I have a BPS 3.5'' and the best choke combo that I have found for it is a COMP-N-CHOKE XXX FULL. Comp-n-choke is a sister company of KICKS. I really likes the Winchester 3.5'' XX 2 1/4 oz #6's.

As mentioned, the STAR DOT amazed me on my Mossberg 835, to be a $20 choke. You really need to get read of that shine. The key to a turkeys eyes are movement. We are going to move, period. So, you don't need the sun glairing off of your barrel when you do move.

If you have the extra money, buy you a shorter barrel, I like the 24'' myself. It is hard lugging around a 28'' barrel all day and it kills the arms if you have to hold it up for a while. Finding a gun/choke/load combo may take a lot of time and money, but normally just about anything is good enough to kill a turkey at 25-30 yards, we just want the "Best" out of everything.

Although reading books and listening to other people is good, nothing can count for actually getting in the woods.

The first turkey I killed:

A friend of mine tried to drag me turkey hunting for years, but like others, I assumed that turkey hunting was like dove or duck. You just shoot them off a limb or something.

So, he lent me some of his turkey hunting videos and I got interested. I went out and bought a call about a week before our opening day. It was the Knight and Hale alumistrut. Couldn't really call. All I could do at this point is yelp.

Opening day came and my friend has a ritual of hunting his own property on every opening morning. So, I went to a place that I knew had turkeys and called myself.The first time I heard a gobble, I thought it was a dog barking. It kept getting closer and closer as I called. Long story short, 15 minutes after day light I was walking out of the woods with my first long beard.

I have been hooked ever since. It is adictive.

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