Going to start getting ready for opener next month. Last year I purchased a Remington Ventilator tube for my 870 Turkey Express, and I'm going to start buying some loads to pattern. The choke says lead shot only. What would you all recommend I buy to start off with. I'm thinking #5 or #6. Any reccomendations are appreciated! Thanks.
I get good patterns with lead #6 and great patterns with hevi #7
Can lead be considered anything but Hevi-shot? Do they even make steel shot turkey loads?
Quote from: MiamiE on February 02, 2013, 03:37:14 PM
Can lead be considered anything but Hevi-shot? Do they even make steel shot turkey loads?
There are some turkey loads made that have steel shot in them and there are many small, #6 & #7 steel shot shells made.
Lead means just what it says, shells that have lead pellets only.
Thanks,
Clark
Buy you some Hevi-13 #6's or 7's and you will see some very good patterns with that choke. You can ignore the lead shot only on that choke. I'm not going to go into details, but I have talked about all this before on here. That choke will work as good if not better than a lot of chokes that say Hevi-Shot approved.
+1 I tried the 7s in mine last year with the ventilator and it did great! :drool:
Quote from: ILIKEHEVI-13 on February 02, 2013, 06:34:04 PM
Buy you some Hevi-13 #6's or 7's and you will see some very good patterns with that choke. You can ignore the lead shot only on that choke. I'm not going to go into details, but I have talked about all this before on here. That choke will work as good if not better than a lot of chokes that say Hevi-Shot approved.
That choke is good with Lead 6's, and likes Lead 7.5's too.