Just put a fast fire 3 on my supernova. Should I start with a slug to sight this thing in so I know the dots on paper then go from there with the turkey loads?
Or should I just start with turkey loads
Start at 10 yards with bird shot.
I started with bird shot at 20 yards, two shots with that then two shots my turkey load and it was on!
I started with a wheeler bore sight and didn't have to make an adjustment.
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As the others said, start with dove loads. I use 12.5 yards as my starting point. Most red dots have adjustments of 1/2 inch at 50 yards so you will have 1/8 inch adjustments at 12 to 13 yards. After you adjust at 12.5 move to 25 (1/4th inch adjustments) with dove loads and see how the pattern looks, make any final adjustments. When your satisfied at 25, throw in a turkey load at 40 and you should be good.
If you are shooting from a bench with some sort of rest you can can shoot a dove load at 8 - 10 yard's. You should basically end up with a ragged hole in paper. After firing put the dot back on your original POA and without moving the gun you or a friend can adjust the red dot to POI. At this point you can back up to your desired distance and check POA against POI with turkey load and make any final adjustments.
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I just did this a few weeks ago. Get yourself a big target, I used NRA shotgun pattern targets (Midway USA 10 for $8) with my turkey choke in I started at 25, tooka a shot with my bead to confirm it was on. Then mounted my dot on the rail ontop of my Stoeger m3000. I was lucky enough the windage was spot on so I just needed to adjust elevation. I could also see down my vent rib to my bead so I could line it up and basically sort of bore sight the do to the bead. I started with dove loads at 25 and confirmed zero with a turkey load then check it at 40 yards and boom I was done. Granted I wasn't really done because I checked several loads at several different ranges. but its pretty straight forward.
Thanks guys I'll pick up some dove rounds tomorrow
Not that it was asked, but for cheap patterning targets, Lowes has rolls of red rosin paper in the roofing section for like $13 that is 36"x150-ish yards that makes the task easy for a few years
Quote from: keyser12ga on April 16, 2019, 08:34:13 PM
Not that it was asked, but for cheap patterning targets, Lowes has rolls of red rosin paper in the roofing section for like $13 that is 36"x150-ish yards that makes the task easy for a few years
Never thought about doing that, Thanks!
Quote from: mmorgan9812 on April 16, 2019, 09:01:53 PM
Quote from: keyser12ga on April 16, 2019, 08:34:13 PM
Not that it was asked, but for cheap patterning targets, Lowes has rolls of red rosin paper in the roofing section for like $13 that is 36"x150-ish yards that makes the task easy for a few years
Never thought about doing that, Thanks!
Brown Paint paper from Lowes works well too. I believe it is 36" wide by... the roll.
Quote from: bbcoach on April 17, 2019, 11:57:03 AM
Quote from: mmorgan9812 on April 16, 2019, 09:01:53 PM
Quote from: keyser12ga on April 16, 2019, 08:34:13 PM
Not that it was asked, but for cheap patterning targets, Lowes has rolls of red rosin paper in the roofing section for like $13 that is 36"x150-ish yards that makes the task easy for a few years
Never thought about doing that, Thanks!
Brown Paint paper from Lowes works well too. I believe it is 36" wide by... the roll.
That is what I use as well. I put a 1" red tape square in the middle too.
Quote from: Ozarks Hillbilly on April 14, 2019, 12:22:19 PM
If you are shooting from a bench with some sort of rest you can can shoot a dove load at 8 - 10 yard's. You should basically end up with a ragged hole in paper. After firing put the dot back on your original POA and without moving the gun you or a friend can adjust the red dot to POI. At this point you can back up to your desired distance and check POA against POI with turkey load and make any final adjustments.
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THIS...
I buy wrapping paper on sale after Christmas and use the inside.
When I mounted mine I adjusted the windage to line up with the bead and then shot at 20 yards with old Turkey loads that I no longer use and then fine tuned with my good loads at 20 30 40
All these guys are giving excellent advice spot on!!
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Mine was dead on the first shot. My gun shoots poa at 30 yards with the bead. I put my gun in a rest and put the bead on the center of a target 30 yards away. I have a rail on the gun so then I put the red dot on the rail and adjusted it so it was centered on the target. I took the red dot off and checked to make sure the shotgun bead was still centered. Put the red dot on and it was still centered. Checked with bird shot and bingo.
I like the lowes paper. Take a magic marker an make a round circle in middle. Use marker to mark distance and load and choke.
I would start with some cheap bird loads.
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Thanks guys patterned it last night.
Looks deadly with the long beards 3.5 inch 2oz. Not so great with the nitro turkey.
Glad you got her on paper. Longbeards will get the job done, nitros not so much.
Yeah the long beard were night and day difference actually, much better pattern with them.
But mannnn do they kick haha