some may recall, I posted about a new 870 express turkey gun I got a week ago and had pattern problems with the factory extra full turkey choke. Turned out, it was a .687 choke, equal to a normal "full", which i find disappointing since it is supposed to be a dedicated turkey gun. That's another story.

anyway, i bought two chokes, a primos Tight Wad with .660 constriction and a tru glo xtreme with .665. I expected the 660 to work best so I started with it but found the density to be less than desire. With Win 3 inch Supreme XX #6 Max I was getting 51 and 51 pellets in a 9 inch paper plate. Not great!

Went to the Tru Glo .665 with the same shell and I got 73 pellets in the 9 inch plate, a meaningful improvement. The rule as I understand it is 100 in a 10 inch circle. I didn't measure that but suppose I would have picked up another 10-15 pellets if 10 inches, still light but acceptable to me.

I also shot Hevi 13 in #6 and expected more but got 65 pellets in 9 inches but the pattern did shoot high and right, a bit different than the Win. With better sighting, I could have gotten into the 75-85 pellet range.

All that said, I can live with it. Got a turkey this morning at 25 yrds so didn't need to push the range.