Gobbler Nation

I have tried EVERY type of turkey hunting appropriate sight you care to name from a Swampfox Kingslayer to a Truglo red dot, to a Sig Romeo 5 RD to a Vortex Spitfire, to Leupold VariX-II 2-7x33. IMO/IME nothing beats a good red dot IF they will work with your eyes (no starburst effect) but be sure t...

My .2c worth. Bare in mind these were MY results using three different shotgun types all 12ga some 3" most 3.5". I was shooting and patterning turkey specific shotguns back in the very early 90's after I got permission to hunt private land with an excellent population of turkeys on it and ...

Have 3moa Swampfox Kingslayer's on two of my now 4 dedicated turkey shotguns and hunted last year in a very light more of a misting rain and the precipitation rendered my sight pretty much useless unless I wiped it off. Was wondering if anyone came up with a solution besides using the plastic cover ...

slick wrote: ↑May 2nd, 2023, 4:00 pm Bought two springs from e bay. My triggers are about 3.5-4 pounds now

Who'd you buy them from if you'd be so kind to share.

Forget the "maximum range " performance and learn to call the birds into definite killing range. This "long range" marketing hype is the worst thing which has happened to turkey hunting and has probably resulted in more cripples and non-retrieved birds than kills. Of all the bir...

I've tested a lot of chokes and loads but not as extensive as others. What I've found is Indian Creek will have the tightest core patterns and Jebs patterns will likely be the close to same size (may be smaller) but have a more even distribution. I agree if you're not handloading try Fox Trot ammo....

Going to fallow the advice of those here and give Foxtrot TSS a try. Am looking for maximum range performance. I have a 12ga 3.5" Remington Express with a 24" barrel and a 3.5" Benelli Super Nova with a 24" barrel. Looking for choke recommendations for both guns. Right now both h...

Gil, I get a great pattern with Longbeards out of a Carlson's Ciro Plus .665 "Long Beard" choke ;) I get great results with a .660" Carlson's LB choke out of my RESM 12ga 3.5" 2 and 2.125oz #5's of WLBXR shells. Also did as well with IC BD strike .665" choke. Only reason I ...

Remington XF should be .687 Coincidently that is what my Remington XF actually measures. So based on that I am going to say as long as there is no porting or similar extension on my turkey chokes as is the case with my factory chokes, I should be able to get an accurate ID reading using my venire c...

I have factory XF chokes for all three of my 870's, five in all, two of which are actually labeled as "XF turkey" and I have an factory full choke for my Benelli SN. None of their ID's are on them. I only own a dial calipers and a venire caliper. Obviously do to the limited reach of my ven...

That 835 i had was just plain abusive, that was pre hevi shot days and the patterns compared to the recoil were pathetic! Just shot my 835 last week along with my BSN and REM/EXP/SM and yes it does get ones attention. I hate to say it with every type of shell I have tried my BSN shot the most dense ...

Yes, I would think .660 is a bit too much constriction. My ST .675 does 58%/10 with 9s in the "long range" barrel of my Beretta (.722 bore) and a Rem HS SF .675 does 50%/10 with 8s in my Rem 1187 (.729 bore). A lot of people are happy with an IC .665 in the 12 gauge. Top Thank you for your...

Get some 1 5/8th oz. loads from Foxtrot, patterns will be plenty and you won't get beat to death! Thanks for the advice. For me though recoil has never been a factor. No I do not find great enjoyment from shooting 12ga 3" or 3.5" turkey shells, but when I tire of hard recoil shooting from...

Thanks for the replies. I asked because my friend let me shoot one of his 12ga 3" 2oz #9 TSS shells from my Benelli Supernova with a Carlsons Long Beard .660" tube and I got 398 pellets in a 10" circle at 41 yards. Makes me wonder how good the pattern could be if I used a more TSS fr...

Thanks for the replies. I asked because my friend let me shoot one of his 12ga 3" 2oz #9 TSS shells from my Benelli Supernova with a Carlsons Long Beard .660" tube and I got 398 pellets in a 10" circle at 41 yards. Makes me wonder how good the pattern could be if I used a more TSS fri...

Was wondering for a 2oz load of #9 TSS what is considered a good pattern density at 40 and 60 yards?

Was wondering if anyone has ever used an elk bugle as a locator call to get toms to shock gobble? I am wicked good at doing a three notes of an elk bugle and are going to for this year try out the longest highest pitched part of the elk bugle as a shock gobble locator call for trying to find mid to ...

Thanks for the suggestion and I am considering Lacrosse as a possible boot choice.

My 19yo and 16yo are both 6'-3" both 280+ and both still growing, both wear 15XW.

6'-2"

Spent the day chasing turkeys with my best friend in an area that had a LOT of rain for over a week now and was rather surprised as this area which has always been mostly dry despite past years of heavy rain was quite wet and I spent about 30% of my time slogging through standing water. My Gore-tex ...

Yes sir thank you.

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ordered a BUNCH.

My sons and I are big people, my boys are both 6'-3" and closer to 300 than 290. I would caution you if like us are on the bigger side to be gentile in using that design of chair. Of the four I have purchased we broke three in three years. The plastic devices that serve as the connection points...

???? Cheddite 3" 12 ga new, primed hulls have been in stock for awhile now at Ballistic Products

Just checked and unless I am missing something they are OOS.