Choke Tubes: Help!!!
 

I need help choosing a choke. Right now I have a 11-87 with a factory extra full choke. It only puts about eight pellets in the kill zone at 40 yards. I'm looking at hastings, the Undertaker, and the Tru-Glo Gobble Stopper Extreme. Can you tell me which choke/load combination will work best for me?

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No one can. Buy a Hastings, Undertaker or Tru-Glo tube (all good tubes) about .665 ID. Try a bunch of shot sizes and brands. I will say that most folks seem to have good luck with Winchester shells but your gun may prefer another brand. Every gun is a law onto itself.

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Sorry I don't have the link right here, but look at the Nitro site. They have tested a number of choke/barrel/shell combos. You might want to polish your barrel, too, plus, as Wingbone said, it is a matter of guess work and trial and error. I'd look at a variety of shells instead of investing in a variety of chokes, first, though.

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If you plan on shooting Hevi-Shot just buy you a Rhino choke, thats as far as you will have to look.

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Deer-Slayer,
Nitro Ammo recomends Rhrino,Patternmaster,Carlsons,Truglo, Trulock
and any Stainless Steel or Titanium choke, will work good with thier
ammo. Check with thier charts for constrictions on your gun.
Click on Test Patterning!
www.nitrocompany.com

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Dude 8 hits in the vitals(brain&neck vertebra) is fine for 40 yards... Unless you get some kind of custom shell and choke combo or send your gun out to get some work done you'll have a hard time finding a magic choke that will shoot much better than that;)

Good luck on your quest for the ultimate turkey gun:D

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Ahh, but we need to specify Nitro Hevi-shot here. I thought that I could eek by using Remington Hevi-shot with the Rhino choke. I found out differently last night at the bench. I had the reccomended Rhino for my BPS, the .670 and another Rhino in .660 at my disposal.

The Remington Hevi-shot worked well, but no where near stellar. Insert one matched Nitro brand Hevi-shot load for the specific Rhino choke and WOW! Talk about night and day. Bird hung up at 45 yards? Not gunna to be a problem. :)

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I went to the Nitro site and looked at the prices. Copper plated lead $18 for a box of 5, Hevi-Shot box of 5 $23 are they kidding?

You can go to Wally World and buy Winchester turkey loads for $5 or $6 and get 10 rounds of Remington Hevi-shot for $17, if you check sales its as little as $6. I just bought a couple of boxes of Remington 4x6 loads for $2.50 ea. Don't know how they'll work but at that price I'll try them.

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What does it cost you ever time you shoot your bow and either lose or break an arrow in a deer? All this money we spend on turkey hunting and then we complain about having to give a little extra for the best ammo?

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Strut- There has been many time when I have been able to reuse my arrows. How often do you reuse your shells?

Just because its the most expensive ammo on the market doesn't necessarily make it the best, nor would I say spending 3 time the money as "a little extra". If Nitro is the only thing that will pattern in your gun have at it , but I can get the same results for a whole lot less $$$.

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it all depends on what size shot you want to use and whether the load is hevishot, copperplated or lead.as already pointed out,you already have a good tube and pattern,why change?the hevishot loads[nitro,rem hevishot,win extended flight,and federal top flight]need a tube of .670 or .675 in most tubes while the regular loads normally like the .660 or .665 tubes.the rhino that is designed for the nitro and rem hevishot is .660 but can be gotten in other dia as well.you might try the rem choke super full which is .665 dia.it works well in my 870 super mag with hevishot 4s and 5s.

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When you said you had a factory choke, did you mean the Super Full Choke (.665)? I have one of those for my 1100 and it will throw 30+ #4s in a turkey's head target at 40 yards. I use the Winchester Supreme Copper Plated shot in 2 3/4". Patterned #4s, #5s, #6s and they all pattern pretty well from 30 to 40 yards with the #4s doing the best at the longer ranges.

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Spend the money and get a Comp-n-choke they are way above the rest, maybe a 660 or 665 , not only will it hammer a turkey you might even win a still shoot and a ham. Good luck.

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Can you honestly say that you yourself have shot the Nitro Hevi ammo thru your own gun?

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I shoot the gobble stopper extreme in my 835 and 935, with rem hevi-shot shoots an awesome pattern. 22 pellets in the head and neck at 40 yards.

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Wednesday mornin me and a buddy went hunting. I passed on two nice toms for a chance at a better one. I wish I hadn't. My buddy didn't pass on them and he now his second of the year, a 22lb bird with a 9" beard and 1 1/8 hooks. He shoots a Rem. 870 with a Trulock .665 and Win Hi-density Extended Range #6s. This morning I took my cousin on his first hunt. He got his first bird, 18.5 lbs, 9" beard and 1" hooks. He was using an 835 with a Trulock .680 and Federal copper plated lead #6s with the flite control wad. I'll try to get the pics up today.