bigcountry

Well, I patterned my turkey guns for the season this week.

Finally tried out the flight control shells. Not bad. I got 140 pellets in 6" circle at 30 yards. compared to 80 from winchester and remington..

These were 2oz 3" lead loads.

Still not happy. I want to get at least 15 hits in turkey head and neck at 40 yards. I have tried alot of different ammo. But think I need a decent turkey choke. Still using the Remington Turkey choke.

TROPHYHUNTER25

what size shot

bigcountry

No 5, and No 6. Have you tried them? Anything to add?

bigcountry

This freaking patterning crap is for the birds. No pun. Second year in a row, I have tried patterning two different shotguns.

I have littlerly 6 box's of various ammo from remington winchester, and federal. Different wieghts, different shot size. I have two different guns I use for turkey, Browning Gold 3.5" and a 870 express 3".

After two days of this, I know that winchester's premier don't pattern that well. But everything is so inconsistent. I bought this high dollar flight control crap buyign into the hype, and it doesn't do any better then remington premier copper coated or nitro high velocity. I am back where I started last year shooting remington 3.5" 2oz #5 with a hard limit of 40 yards (and thats if everything is perfect), with a comfortable limit of 30yards.

statjunk

BC,

I also went through this very frustrating journey and what I've found is that the choke matters most. Unforutnely they are expensive to try because once you fire a load through them they can't be returned. Not to mention they are between $40 and $60 each. An old buddy of mine patterned his remington with a very high end choke, approx $60, with the Remington heavy shot to put a ton of pellets in the head and neck at 60 yards.

I've seen him shoot a bird at 63 yards and it was literally a boom flop! Literally.

Try some different chokes if you need better performance. I settled. Haven't lost a bird yet. 5 so far.

Tom

Champlain Islander

I have a SBE and have done the same as you BC and am frustrated too. I have purchased 3 different chokes and several boxes of shells and can't seem to get the reults I am looking for. Nothing even close to a 60 yard pattern and like you have settled on 40 yards as max for the loads I have tested. My best is with Winchester #5. The Rem heavy shot didn't do as well even with a special choke designed for it. Federals patterned the worst but did getslightly better thanthe Winchester with the new flight control shells. I did have my gun lazer ported several years ago and wonder if that is hurting my patterns. It actually is supposed to help allowing the end gasses a way to excape eliminating the back pattern from blowing out the leading shot or something like that.

bigcountry

I might go out and buy a pattern master today and give it another try in the morning. I got 100 dollars of ammo I am blasting thru. Wind is howling at 35mph+.

Maybe I am being unrealistic. I get on average 20 shots in a 6" circle at 40 yards.

ShatoDavis

Buy an UnderTaker extra Full choke tube and some Winchester Supreme 3" #6's and be done. Why 40 Yards? Maybe you should be practicing your calling instead of testing multiple brands of ammo.[8D]

700bdl870exp

I shoot flite controls through my undertaker tube wiht very good results to 50yrds. havent paterned past that so i couldnt tell you

bigcountry

Understaker is what I got on my browning. POS if you ask me. I mean no offense if you have one. Just not working for me.