Saw backforty post up a black powder gun with a turkey. Post up what you are carrying this season and anything else you occasionally like to take to woods.
I use a Mossberg 835 12 gauge, Tristar Cobra 3 20 guage youth model, or an ATI Scout 28 guage depending on my mood. All three have optics. Hunting this morning with Perry so we have the Mossberg and Cobra.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250323/d46667261f6385886d1aef7116be82b4.jpg)
Affinity 3 Turkey Elite 20g with Holosun HE507C-GR X2 and Trulock 585. Someday would like to take a Tom with my bow but always chicken out, if I didn't hunt public, I would feel more comfortable trying with bow.
Quote from: snoman4 on March 23, 2025, 09:47:21 AMI use a Mossberg 835 12 gauge, Tristar Cobra 3 20 guage youth model, or an ATI Scout 28 guage depending on my mood. All three have optics. Hunting this morning with Perry so we have the Mossberg and Cobra.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250323/d46667261f6385886d1aef7116be82b4.jpg)
How do you like that tristar 20. I'm in the market for a youth model 20 and it has popped up in my searches a couple of times.
My stoeger 3500 is a good gun and throws a heck of a pattern with longbeard #5s but it gets heavy on long walks.
Quote from: HillclimberWV on March 23, 2025, 02:26:59 PMQuote from: snoman4 on March 23, 2025, 09:47:21 AMI use a Mossberg 835 12 gauge, Tristar Cobra 3 20 guage youth model, or an ATI Scout 28 guage depending on my mood. All three have optics. Hunting this morning with Perry so we have the Mossberg and Cobra.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250323/d46667261f6385886d1aef7116be82b4.jpg)
How do you like that tristar 20. I'm in the market for a youth model 20 and it has popped up in my searches a couple of times.
My stoeger 3500 is a good gun and throws a heck of a pattern with longbeard #5s but it gets heavy on long walks.
I love it. I bought it for the other half and Perry but find myself using it often when I'm by myself running and gunning. It is a dream to carry and maneuver when those tough shots present themselves.
I am a browning guy. This is my Browning maxus 2 wicked wing. I would like a dedicated turkey gun, but for now I can waterfowl and turkey hunt with this one. I wish browning would come out with a pistol grip for there maxus but no luck so far.
I love the bronze cerakote this one has. (https://i.postimg.cc/s15qQ35h/20240427-072025.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/s15qQ35h)
Benelli SBEII
My quiver
870 12ga SP-S
BPS 10ga for when I don't have to walk to far
870 12ga Express
870 20ga Express with Fieldmaster stock set
The BPS and the 20ga will probably see the woods the most this year.
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Gonna carry this 1948 auto 5 some also. Does pretty good with the old 2 3/4 #7 fed hey weights.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250329/0d2860e7971fc25f97be018e8d328e7a.jpg)
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Last few years I've carried a rem 870 20 ga, few months ago I bought a franchi affinity 20 ga and it's what I've carried so far this season. Before next spring tho I will shorten the barrel on it, 26" is to long lol.
I use a mossberg 835. Nothing fancy about it but it means a lot to me. It was the first gun I bought with my own money when I was old enough to work and first gun I set up just for turkeys. It's killed a bunch over the years
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Quote from: backforty on March 29, 2025, 03:25:30 PMGonna carry this 1948 auto 5 some also. Does pretty good with the old 2 3/4 #7 fed hey weights.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250329/0d2860e7971fc25f97be018e8d328e7a.jpg)
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I love that!. Owning an A5 was always a dream of mine, my papaw had a whole set of belgiums and my uncle had a Belgium. This is mine, it's a 1964 magnum 12. I have the original barrel and a Japanese barrel for it. I killed this Jake with it a few years ago, I only wanted to kill one with it. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20250411/3f1b8fd82dcdb74ef0288c118d694fde.jpg)
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I've had three Belgian Browning Auto 5's, two 12's and one 20 gauge magnum. The 20 is from 1968, it came with a 28" full choke but years ago I bought a 28" Japanese Miroku barrel for it with the interchangeable chokes tubes and I've used it quite a bit on upland birds and turkeys. The two 12's both had the safety's inside the front of the trigger guard, one was made somewhere around 1937 and the other a couple years after WW2. One went to my brother-in-law and I just gave the other to my grandson. This picture with my 20 is probably 30 years old.
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Here I am with the same 1968 Browning Auto 5 magnum 20 gauge, probably about 4 years ago.
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Currently I use a Benelli Ethos 20 gauge, 26" barrel, it weighs 6lbs 2 oz loaded with 3, 1 5/8 oz. 3" TSS rounds. Two things I didn't like about this gun when I got it was the 7 pound trigger pull and the stiff safety, I found I could not release the safety as I was shouldering the gun and swinging on a quail. Both issues were easy fixes and it's one of the best guns I've ever owned. It's easy to carry and it's deadly.
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Here's a picture of my grandson with a nice bird he just shot. I'd given him my Browning 12ga auto 5 at the end of last last year and this was his first turkey hunt with it.
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