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Post by wiscwhip on Mar 18, 2017 21:16:36 GMT -6
Very good advice by Reagan! I have watched my uncle shoot at multiple turkeys I have called in for him only to miss high. His excuse is always that he doesn't want to hit it and get a bunch of pellets in the breast meat. I tell him if you never harvest one, how are you supposed to know if you hit it at all?
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Post by Reagan on Mar 19, 2017 6:39:45 GMT -6
Much like a goose, many pellets will not make it through the feathers.
I also try to avoid shooting them in strut. They tuck their neck into their feathers and protect it a little. I like it when they have the periscope extended all the way up. Break their neck and they aren't going anywhere. I always have a diaphragm call in my mouth. If they are in range and strutting, cluck at them and they will often stretch up to look around. Then bang.
I carry my duck gun which is a Winchester SX2. It tends to shoot high when I'm aiming. It's great for swinging on ducks but it complicates the shooting high on turkeys. People rarely shoot to low on a turkey.
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Post by Reagan on Mar 19, 2017 6:42:36 GMT -6
My daughter followed the instructions to shoot for where the skin and feathers meet. Perfectly placed bolt on her day after thanksgiving bird.
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Post by wiscwhip on Apr 16, 2017 10:55:48 GMT -6
Well, it appears I have been thwarted again! I have an old 870 Express that was originally a smoothbore iron sight deer gun with a 21" barrel that my old man won in a "raffle" at work, which he knew he would never use, so he passed it to me. Apparently the original owner had the gun threaded for aftermarket choke tubes at some point. Now anyone with a brain would have had an 870 threaded for Rem-Chokes, but it appears this guy was brain dead, so now I have an 870 with some unidentifiable choke threading. It only came with an extra full flush mount choke tube and the guy who was raffling it off did not know what threads they were, he assumed Remington style, nope! 2 years ago I bought a Rem-Choke IC choke to use in the gun for slugs in the LaCrosse Metro Zone for deer, well the tube didn't fit, so not Rem-Chokes, back to square one. Took the gun and tubes to a local small town gun show looking for a choke. A guy there had a tub full of random chokes, both new and used. I finally found an IC tube that would fit the threads after like a half hour of trial and error, and I traded him the Rem-Choke for the one that fit, but still no help on IDing the thread pattern, as the choke I traded him the Rem-Choke for was a Colonial Arms choke tube, and they make chokes that fit every conceivable manufacturer and a bunch of aftermarket companies as well. I was told by multiple people that it appeared to be a Fausti/American Arms thread pattern. WRONG!!!!! I just received my American Arms threaded Carlson's XD turkey choke in the mail from an Ebay purchase and when I tried it, no such luck, Fausti/AA threads do not fit either. I went to every gun shop in LaCrosse on Friday afternoon other than Wiebke Fur, because they were closed for the Easter holiday and no one could give me a positive ID. I know what these threads aren't, anyone know how I can find out what they really are? I am now starting to get the feeling they might be the standard Tru-Choke thread pattern, as that is very close to the American Arms threading, but no one in town had any Tru-Chokes for me to compare them with, but I am going to try Wiebke on Monday during my lunch break since they are only 2 blocks away from the shop. VERY frustrated, any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
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Post by terrifictom on Apr 16, 2017 11:55:38 GMT -6
Well, it appears I have been thwarted again! I have an old 870 Express that was originally a smoothbore iron sight deer gun with a 21" barrel that my old man won in a "raffle" at work, which he knew he would never use, so he passed it to me. Apparently the original owner had the gun threaded for aftermarket choke tubes at some point. Now anyone with a brain would have had an 870 threaded for Rem-Chokes, but it appears this guy was brain dead, so now I have an 870 with some unidentifiable choke threading. It only came with an extra full flush mount choke tube and the guy who was raffling it off did not know what threads they were, he assumed Remington style, nope! 2 years ago I bought a Rem-Choke IC choke to use in the gun for slugs in the LaCrosse Metro Zone for deer, well the tube didn't fit, so not Rem-Chokes, back to square one. Took the gun and tubes to a local small town gun show looking for a choke. A guy there had a tub full of random chokes, both new and used. I finally found an IC tube that would fit the threads after like a half hour of trial and error, and I traded him the Rem-Choke for the one that fit, but still no help on IDing the thread pattern, as the choke I traded him the Rem-Choke for was a Colonial Arms choke tube, and they make chokes that fit every conceivable manufacturer and a bunch of aftermarket companies as well. I was told by multiple people that it appeared to be a Fausti/American Arms thread pattern. WRONG!!!!! I just received my American Arms threaded Carlson's XD turkey choke in the mail from an Ebay purchase and when I tried it, no such luck, Fausti/AA threads do not fit either. I went to every gun shop in LaCrosse on Friday afternoon other than Wiebke Fur, because they were closed for the Easter holiday and no one could give me a positive ID. I know what these threads aren't, anyone know how I can find out what they really are? I am now starting to get the feeling they might be the standard Tru-Choke thread pattern, as that is very close to the American Arms threading, but no one in town had any Tru-Chokes for me to compare them with, but I am going to try Wiebke on Monday during my lunch break since they are only 2 blocks away from the shop. VERY frustrated, any helpful suggestions would be appreciated. Have you tried Mossberg?
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Post by terrifictom on Apr 16, 2017 12:08:52 GMT -6
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Post by wiscwhip on Apr 16, 2017 14:15:47 GMT -6
Mossberg/Winchester/Invector tubes aren't right, looked at a bunch of those on Friday. The unthreaded portion at the lower end of the tube is longer than what I have. Also, I have what looks to be 44 threads per inch(fine thread), Winchester/Mossberg/Browning/Remington/Benelli/Beretta, you name it, have 32 threads per inch(course thread), so that is pretty easy to see once you know what to look for. I have looked at about a thousand different pictures and comparisons on the internet and everything at the Carlson's website multiple times and still no luck on a 100% positive ID. I'm really hoping I can get an answer from the gunsmith on Monday, otherwise I am going to contact Shane Carlson and see if he can give me any hints. As I said, it looks most like the Tru-Choke aftermarket thread pattern, but they have a "thin-walled" choke and a "standard" choke design that I think would take a micrometer to tell the difference, so more confusion even if they turn out to be Tru-Choke? ?
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