Re: Card Shooting

What he means is "turkey shoots". A .640 is pretty much off the scale of adjectives when it comes to tight chokes. Honestly if you tried to shoot a 3" load of #4 hevi shot down the bore you might well blow the end of the barrel off. Those .640 card chokes are designed to be shot with lower pressure #9, #8 and #7.5 dove/trap loads for turkey shoots at 35 yards.

If you are unfamiliar with turkey shoots, the basic rules of the game center around a 3x5 card with a fine crosshair intersecting in the middle. The target is put on a post or target board, usually about 35 yards distant. Shooters use their own gun, and are given one shell per round... all from the same box (keeps it fair). The winner is determined by whoever puts a pellet closest to the intersection of that crosshair. Only takes one pellet to win. Its a big fundraiser usually for hunt clubs, firehouses, rotary clubs. Prizes range from butterball turkeys (historically it was live turkeys), to bacon, hams, gift certificates, and there is usually a money round at the end of the night. There are of course different levels of this, and like everything else, some people take it super seriously and travel across the country and have specially made guns and so forth. Its largely a southern thing nowadays.... at least thats where they seem to be most prolific.

Swamp,
Thanks for the info on card shoots ... reminds me of the movie with Gary Cooper (Sgt. York?) where he's a backwoods boy from the hills that makes good in the army capturing a bunch of Germans single-handedly ... but back at home in the hills of Tennessee there was a scene of a turkey shoot (but they used rifles) where they were shooting at a card with an X on it and the one closest to the middle was said to have "cut it" ...

I'm just gonna be happy if this .660 choke will help my Mossberg 500 to hold a decent turkey pattern at 35 yards ....I'll be patterning some 3 different boxes of ammo when it arrives.
Thanks again for the lesson. I'm a newbie to this.

You could have also listened to me 8 posts ago when I reccomended the .660 choke. Why does people question/dismiss everything I say?

I'm sorry, were you saying something??

jk, I heard you, but was also listening to others. No harm no foul, thanks for your input.