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Turkey Guns & Shooting => Turkey Guns => Topic started by: ScottTaulbee on January 23, 2023, 02:17:35 PM
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I’ve never considered using TSS before and I’ve always been plenty happy with my 835 and longbeard XR 3.5” but I started taking a 20 gauge squirrel hunting during early fall and then used it for waterfowl and I love the thing. I think I’m going to use it for turkey this spring, my question is, where TSS is so hard, do you really need a “turkey” choke?. I’m thinking my factory full will be more than sufficient and not over choke it. Any experience or advice is appreciated.
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I would recommend you to get a box of TSS and try shooting one shell through your full choke, and see how it does. Some guns will shoot very tight patterns through a full (595/590). If you feel you need more constriction, you can always go tighter.
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You might get a nice even hunting pattern at 40yds with your factory full, it's worth 1 shell to find out.
TSS is not as finicky as lead, if you decide to go with a tighter constriction TSS patterns good with Carlson and Trulock chokes.
I hunt an older 20ga with a fixed xfull .585, it patterns tss 8's or 9's well beyond 40yds
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Like the others said, I would try one shell out of the factory full. If it's not satisfactory, you don't need to spend a lot of cash on another choke. I shoot a .575 carlson's in mine that cost about 30 bucks.
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The bird I killed last Sunday at 40 yards was killed with my 20 gauge Winchester SX4, the Invector Plus full choke tube that came with the gun, and Federal TSS #7.
IMO, your standard full choke tube ought to be the first choke you test, and serve as your control as you test other chokes. You may find you don't need a different choke tube.
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In agreement for the most part. I think I would shoot a couple cheaper shells first to make sure POA (point of aim) is on target before putting one of those $1000 shells through it. I did the exact same thing a couple years ago when using a new 20g and choke. I used some old high brass I had for 3 shots to make sure aim was right on at 30 yrds. Then threw 1 TSS with new choke and ended up with a really good pattern. I did have to adjust POA with those 3 shots. So without those 3 shells first I would have wasted 4 expensive shells. Good luck