Hi guys. I bought a used but never shot Mossberg 835 from a buddy. Paid 200 bucks. It is a pump, shoots 2 3/4", 3" and 3 1/2" shells. It is a faily ugly balck stock. I am thinking of making it a dedicated turkey gun and mounting a red dot or 2X scope.
Any one have any experience with these guns for turkey? I would think it makes a good goose and crane gun too.
mco

Check out the turkey hunting forum, you'll find a lot of guys shooting 835's. They are one of the top selling turkey guns.

I love mine. I use it for everything from ducks and geese to doveto turkeys and even on the trap and skeet fields. Even got a barrel for the slugs!

Great all around gun.

I put on a red dot... a cheap one for turkey and it works fine.

So far this year i have taken around 25 birds with it.
Pines

Yep! Have the 835 in Camo/Combo and never had to goabove 3" for any thing!

ive got a 835 too I use it for everything from doves to turkeys and geese I also have a slug barrel for it I used on whitetails back home. Here in AZ I also use it for coyotes with eithe 00 buck shot or hevi shot dead coyote loads. mossberg makes a great shotgun you wont be dissapointed with your purchase

I owned (past tense) one. Couldn't stand to shoot it. That sucker killed on both ends. Mine had the synthetic stock and didn't weigh hardly anything. With 3 1/2 inchers it would flat put the hammer to me. I'm usually not particulary recoil sensitive but I just didn't enjoy that thing. I took it to a gun show and traded it off a few springs back for a browning BPS. It was a good weapon, just kicked like a bay mule.

Well Shato davis, I too am not relishing my first shots with 3.5" heavey shot. But I figure I can take it a few times a year. My dove gun is a winchester model 1400 and it shoots like a kitten.
And thanks to all of you others for answering my questions. That is 4 shooters who love thier 835 and I who didn't. I think it will be a good gun and Mosseberg is the working man's pump gun.
okcmco

might as well make it 5 .

I had been in the market for one last year, just happened to be at 'that big box store' where they were closing out the wood/blue models. Out the door cost, $132, NIB. In the goose fields, I call it the LIGHTNING ROD.

OKCMCO,


absolutely. I hope that it performs well for you. Mine shot very well it was just too light. I wasn't intending to run your choice down. YOu asked for experiences, so I tried to as truthfully as possible relate mine. Best of luck.

Great choice. I bought mine the year they came out (I think I was 13?). I've been very happy with it and it can do anything well but really shines as a turkey gun. I have a Bushnell Holosight on mine. My dad killed a turkey at just over 50 yards with my gun (super full turkey choke). I've killed quite a few with it as well (not that far though). It's probably the best turkey gun out there for the money, considering they can be had new for about $250 I think.