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Turkey Guns & Shooting => 20 Gauge Turkey Guns => Topic started by: Which Gun on August 16, 2021, 01:15:51 PM
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I was at local gun shop where I saw an Escort 20ga turkey gun in bottomland camo I believe had 22” barrel. Had adjustable sights with a cantilever mount attached to barrel. Does anyone have one and what’s your opinion.
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I was at local gun shop where I saw an Escort 20ga turkey gun in bottomland camo I believe had 22” barrel. Had adjustable sights with a cantilever mount attached to barrel. Does anyone have one and what’s your opinion.
I just bought Escort Auto in Bottomland 410 have not shot it yet. I just got x full Jeb's choke 381 for it also.. The 20 ga and 410 looked really good ..
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Yea it does. Has me interested. Just over 6lbs. They only had one 20 ga. This had magazine cutoff button Keep me informed on yours.
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A friend of mine has one in a 12. Runs flawless, shoots straight.
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Well it came home with me today. I’ll give reviews when I get it setup. Did email Hatsan it does take Remington chokes.
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Keep us posted here.
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Took gun out today to test out. Put FF2 on got it sighted in with bird shot. Emailed Hatsan factory turkey choke .565. No 20ga TSS on hand. Shot Winchester Supreme 1 1/8 oz 3” #5’s. Shot at 30yds got 110 in 10. Got 16 pellets in spine on turkey target from Missouri Conservation Dept. website on 11”x17” paper. Swabbed barrel between shots. Good even pattern. Gun worked great. Choke stayed tight. Barrel nice and shiny.
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There you go. Seemed easy, congrats!
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Thanks I’m very happy with gun. Trigger needs a little work to take up slack. Crisp it up some. Ill get some TSS soon to try. I believe stock choke should be good. Firing pin really hammers the primers. I would have tested farther out but started raining.
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Apex 3” 1 5/8 oz #9’s came in yesterday. Today I sent one round down range to 40yds. 275 in 10. 30 in spine and head. Core is what I consider hot. Same impact as my lead Winchester loads. Load carried a kick. Gun is light. Charge was dirty. One very happy camper here. I would recommend this gun with stock choke.
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Glad it worked out for you. I have Apex 3inch 1 5/8 oz #8 to try. In New York we can`t use #9.
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I got my son one this past spring, put a fast fire on it. I ended up carrying it more than anything. Shot burgess creek #9s and otnwas deadly. Good little gun for the price point.
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We finally had a pretty day so I decided to shoot a couple of turkey guns. The Escort 20 did 289 in ten at lasered 40 yards with Apex 3” 9’s. Only third time shooting it. It’s ready to go.
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I picked up one this week and pretty impressed with it so far.
Only complaint would be the trigger needs to be lightened up a little for me.
Paired it with Carlsons TSS and XR choke. Shooting TSS #9s at 40 and both had great patterns.
Hard to beat for $350 + tax and transfer fee.
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I'm looking at these shotguns too, can't decide between the turkey and the youth. I like a red dot mounted low . The youth has 11 mm groves for mounting an optic ? Not sure how that would work . Those of you that have the pirating rail model is the rail removable?
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The cantilever rail is bolted to barrel.
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Maybe I should get the youth model, a little shorter length of pull dovetailed receiver I can mount a dot on and grandson can use it.
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I went with the youth model myself. Very compact package with the 22” barrel and short LOP. I had the receiver drilled and tapped for a marlin 336 base and FF3. I ended up with a trulock 585 choke that throws a fantastic uniform pattern with low 300’s in the 10” at 40 yards with 1 5/8 oz of #9’s. The new models use a rem choke thread pattern but the body of the chokes are slightly longer then a a V3 factory choke. About half the thickness of a dime. Just a heads up.
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Witchgun, I have been shooting Escorts for 11 yrs now, I do alot of shooting. They are hands down the best guns on the market. I was givin one on a snow goose hunt from the ownner/exporter and was told not to ever clean it. He sends a survay every 6months and I still shoot it and never been cleaned, and never jambed. I have owned every gun they make, sold all the high dollar guns and shoot only escorts, grandkids all shoot them, for the money they are great, they clcle fast
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You have to watch these guns with the barrel mounted rail, reason why is with that high front sight , which is not removable on the gun , you will be almost co-witnessing with your red dot and the sight on the gun.. i had this problem with the 410 and i had to add 1/2 riser between the red dot pictinny mount and the rail , which solved the problem and now with that riser i can also use my regular sights... got the gun all sighted in and the gun shot great...
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Picked up the youth model and used a utility dovetail to picatinny adapter to mount a Vortex red dot. I only fired some dovetail loads thru it so far to check function and no problems.
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UTG mount
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I sent one of my chokes to Trulock to get a .585 that screws all the way in made.
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I have one, semi-auto. Can't beat it for the price. I killed my first turkey with it last year. 38 yards, he didn't even flinch. Dirt nap! Factory choke, TSS #7/9.
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I have one, semi-auto. Can't beat it for the price. I killed my first turkey with it last year. 38 yards, he didn't even flinch. Dirt nap! Factory choke, TSS #7/9.
Same results for me with it two years ago at 40. It’s a solid option for anyone I think. Pretty light and very maneuverable which is nice.
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Bought one myself recently. Had trigger issues, unbelievably heavy pull. Emailed customer service and they offered to let me send it in or they would send another trigger. I opted for the new trigger. Had to spend 40 to get someone to put it in for me, but it's world's better. Also bought a fastfire II that I had to send back because the dot wouldn't lock down. Exchanged for a vortex viper.
Already well into the season, but what patterning I've done looks great. TSS super slam 1 5/8 #9s and a .575 trulock.