turkey choke
 

Hey folks, been a while. I have a mossberg 935 with a 24in barrel. I currently have a xxx-full 670 comp-n-choke in it. My shells are winchester x-tended range 3.5 6's. The problem that i am having is that out to forty yards the pattern is great, but after 40 yards the pattern dramatically falls apart . It seems like it drops of the face of the earth. I have owned many 835's in the past and have mixed the constriction with many different chokes. Thus the reason i put a .670 comp-n-choke on the 935. Different gun but the same barrel so i figured it would work well together since it did with the 835. i was thinking that maybe the .670 was a bit tight for the gun, but i'm shooting 6's? Wanted to try a indian creek black diamond series in .675 in hopes of a major improvement from 40 + yards. Any info or help would be helpful. Thanks Lou-Lou

Try a win HV #5's threw that choke... You might decide to keep it... Now if your chasing the 10 circle then you might want to take a second mortgage out on your house lol

I shoot Hevi-13 #6 through a HeviShot turkey choke and have never had better patterns. The combination works really well out of my gun.

The best advice is to experiment until you find a pattern that works, and stick with it. Chasing the "best pattern" can be somewhat akin to alchemy. Don't make yourself crazy.

If you have some friends with spring fever, share the cost of a few diff boxes of turkey loads (diff mfgrs, diff shot size).

An easy and quick test...set a coke can on a stick at 50yds. If your gun/choke/load combination can take it out, you're good to go. A friend tested his NEF single shot 12ga with a NEF/HR turkey choke on it like this...with Win. Supreme 3" #5 it's potent! (and recoils like a mule)

AND, keep your shots at or inside of your max range. If you can't bust'em past 40yds, wailt til they're closer.

i use a primos turkey choke. not the jelly head but the une under it it was 20 bucks with a dvd and i can shoot 40 yards and kill a turke with 3 inch 6's easily. killed my longbeard at 44 steps on the run last year after my brother shot his. i use a stoger

I'd check the pattern of as many loads as I could afford before swapping around choke tubes. A .670 should work fine. I put a Pure Gold .670 on my 12 ga. Nova. This shot gun patterned not so hot to poorly with several of the loads that I tried before I settled in on what I use.

If you decide to switch chokes, you might want to check out a Rhino choke. Every Mossberg I have ever seen running one has shot some amazing patters with it.

I recently got an Indian creek choke for my gun,
very happy with it ---but checking different
shells/loads for any choke including Indian Creek
is the way to go.

The best pattern I have gotten with my Benelli Nova or my SX3 came from a HEVISHOT turkey choke tube and Hevi-13. I have tried several tubes and am really happy with this combo. Patterns really tight at 40-50 yards, I even tried 65 yards just for fun and was still really impressed.

That's my current set up as well.

Call them in close, and then shoot them in the head - dead bird !

"Call them in close, and then shoot them in the head - dead bird !"

Yep, that's the whole fun of turkey hunting, not seeing how far you can reach out and possibly wound one!

Guns? You turkey hunt with a gun? You should be carrying nothing more than a 4 foot long stick into the turkey woods. If you can't call them into the range of a 4 foot stick then I'm sorry but you obviously aren't much of a turkey hunter.


See how stupid that (poor language ~ Edited by JW) sounds. Nothing wrong with setting up a gun that will kill turkeys on out there as long as you pattern it and know it's lethal killing range from both a pattern and penetration standpoint.

Indian Creek Choke Tube

And therein lies the problem. Sure, you can set-up a gun that can kill turkeys out to 60 and 70 yards reliably...but do you realize how tight that pattern is at 30-40 yards? How about 20 yards?...about the size of a softball. Be off an inch, or the turkey moves his head and you whiff completely..or worse, cripple a bird. There's no easy answer.
A good, consistent, even pattern at 40 yards is an excellent measure of a turkey guns capability. Going either direction begins to limit its overall effectiveness at specific ranges.

Gman

Todd,

How does this one sound then; shoot them with the best "turkey" shotgun you got........Oh yea I almost forgot, "dead bird".

X2

I agree to a point. I think if you got a long range 50 to 60 yard killer that shoots a very small pattern at 20 yards IMO you really need a scope. Then you could make them close shots count as well as the long ones.

Try the HeviShot turkey choke with Hevi-13 shotshells. I seriously doubt that you can pattern better or kill the turkeys better.