ORIGINAL: Wimuzzleman
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How bad is the recoil? I aint to sensative to recoil but I want it to be accurate. Do you have to take the choke out to put the wad and everything down the barrel or is that just optional (not that it matters to much either way I amonly gonna get one shot at turkeys anyhow.) I cant wait til turkey season. I saw ten times more turkey wile deer hunting than deer.
No you can load it with the extra full turkey choke in place. If you shoot APP 2f you do not have to swab the bore. I was shooting Pyrodex RS and got five shots off without swabbing. Also they come with red primer jacket for 209 ignition, but I was shooting them with a #11 cap, and they did a great job.
As for recoil, let me put it this way, with a turkey load, you do not want any scope without A LOT OF EYE RELIEF. Have you ever shot a 3-1/2 inch magnum turkey load? Its kind of like that. It reminds me of shooting big turkey loads out of my old double barrel. They are very accurate once you sight them in. I was shooting an olive can at 40 yards and putting nine pellets in it most all the time.
I got mine before turkey season and I had no permit, so I was outside just blasting everything that moved. I was going to grouse hunt with it, and use some of the lighter loads for that. But I have been hunting grouse with my other 12 gauge New Englander, and that's too much fun.