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20 Gauge Turkey Guns / Re: 870 Youth 21” Choke/Loads

Last post by Jbird22 - Today at 02:23:12 PM

I use Carlson's.575 in mine with #9 tss

In my experience a 575 in a short barrel shoots the same pattern with the same load with a 585 in a longer barrel. I would go 575 as a starting point with a 21" barrel.

I have 2 870 20 ga with 21" barrels and they're both lights out with 1-5/8 oz #9 handloads and .575 Carlson's chokes. No need to waste money on overly expensive chokes with TSS.

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General Forum / Re: Hearing Protection

Last post by bwhana - Today at 02:21:57 PM

I found similar issues with tetras at first as Ken mentioned. It took several hunts to get used to them and most of those issues resolved themselves for me. The key for me is I use either turkey or turkey boost mode and rarely turkey magnum. On base turkey, the calls are not distorted enough to matter for me. On magnum, a gobble 200 yds away sounds like he's in your lap.

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General Forum / Re: Gear dump and recommendati...

Last post by Davyalabama - Today at 02:17:12 PM

hmm, something that wasn't mentioned ------ compass ---- I use blue chalk ---- extra Derwent charcoal sticks (brown and 2 different greens) ----  I always have my old timer with me ---- I carry my diaphragms in an old coin purse (if you don't what these are, well....)  -----

#4

General Forum / Re: If you could hunt 1 day wi...

Last post by Deere92 - Today at 02:11:05 PM

This is an easy decision for me:
Highplainsdrifter
a combo turkey/grizzly hunt
Two big thumbs up 👍👍

Very underrated response right here   

#5

General Forum / Re: 3 word story

Last post by Davyalabama - Today at 02:09:45 PM

come on opening

#6

General Forum / Re: Word Association Game

Last post by Davyalabama - Today at 02:09:11 PM

Dixon

#7

20 Gauge Turkey Guns / Re: Picked up a new 20ga. Turk...

Last post by wchadw - Today at 02:08:12 PM

Could this Yildiz be drilled & tapped for a scope? Looking @ the picture I am thinking probablyn not. If not would the ventilated rib accomadate a low magnification scope w/ the proper rings & bases?

Sumtoy did mine for an RMR. And I have a Yildiz 28 that I used a meadow creek rib mount. Both work well


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#8

2026 OLD GOBBLER TURKEY HUNTING TEAM CONTEST / Re: Herding up the GOATS

Last post by zelmo1 - Today at 02:05:57 PM

Careful who you wake up Happy, Mrs Z is our on deck hitter. Z

#9

20 Gauge Turkey Guns / Re: Picked up a new 20ga. Turk...

Last post by dswmsn - Today at 01:56:42 PM

Could this Yildiz be drilled & tapped for a scope? Looking @ the picture I am thinking probablyn not. If not would the ventilated rib accomadate a low magnification scope w/ the proper rings & bases?

#10

General Forum / Re: Hearing Protection

Last post by crow - Today at 01:56:08 PM

I bought the Tetra custom fit last year, i have some hearing loss so just getting back to normal hearing would have been fine. Mainly wanted them for gunshot protection with out blocking off my hearing like regular plugs would do.

The pro's, they did muffle gunshots very well.
Was able to course gobble direction  "    "
Could hear distant gobbles and stuff walking in dry leaves better.

The negatives, overall didn't like them as much as expected.

They distorted calling much more than expected, it did muffled suction yelper volume, but also distorted the sound, hard to tell how good you were calling. Diaphragm calls about same as a trumpet.
Longbox yelps were not muffled but amplified to an uncomfortable level and again hard to tell the quality of your calling.
I compromised by wearing just one in my left ear, and only wore them about half a day.

They picked up distant gobbles but once they were coming but still far off gobbles were
Very loud, making it very hard to tell how close or far they were,

I did not like walking with them in at all, the noise was very distracting.
Song birds were definitely amplified, some were annoyingly loud

I'm sure some of the negatives would get better the more you get used to them.