An ugly 16g...
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Lutz, Florida. Turkey woods in the spring.
Posts: 1,143
Nothing wrong with that gun at all. I have read where guys are using pheasant loads for turkey in their 16 ga shotguns. Fiocchi Golden Pheasant could be worth trying on a pattern board.
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Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: VA.
Posts: 1,415
Quick search on 4 different sites didn't turn up any specific turkey loads(longer search might), but heavy upland shot of 1&1/8 oz. should work well. Many good loads in that weight range w/varying shot size-4 to 6-in lead or bismuth.
Marlin?
2&3/4 or 2&1/2 chamber? I remember those.
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It's a JC Higgins 58-318....I've read that it's made by Hi Standard (Model 10)
It's a full choke. I'll pattern it this spring. Limit my range to the pattern, and see if I can knock one down with it.
I've had it for a long time. But other than some squirrel and rabbit hunts haven't done much with it.
-Jake
It's a full choke. I'll pattern it this spring. Limit my range to the pattern, and see if I can knock one down with it.
I've had it for a long time. But other than some squirrel and rabbit hunts haven't done much with it.
-Jake
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It's a JC Higgins 58-318....I've read that it's made by Hi Standard (Model 10)
It's a full choke. I'll pattern it this spring. Limit my range to the pattern, and see if I can knock one down with it.
I've had it for a long time. But other than some squirrel and rabbit hunts haven't done much with it.
-Jake
It's a full choke. I'll pattern it this spring. Limit my range to the pattern, and see if I can knock one down with it.
I've had it for a long time. But other than some squirrel and rabbit hunts haven't done much with it.
-Jake
They knocked geese out of the ski at 60 yard plus for years.
It is the old timers best Turky Shoot gun.
It will be fine for turkey hunting.
Get a reloading set up and make your own turkey loads.
That way you can customise a load just for that gun.
Use # 4, #6, and # 8 shot mix.
I would love to have one of those guns.
After all the old timers killed turkeys with 2 inch black powder shotgun shells in the day.
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Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: durango Colorado USA
Posts: 567
I would love to find one of those for my wife. She likes a bolt action rifle & the switch to a shotgun would be easy for her. Cut the stock to fit her & go kill turkeys. I'm looking for 12, 16 or 20 with a full choke. Bob