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Turkey Guns & Shooting => Turkey Guns => Topic started by: rbreedi1 on December 29, 2014, 10:13:24 AM

Title: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: rbreedi1 on December 29, 2014, 10:13:24 AM
Anyone done any patterning with an M2 12ga and Winchester Longbeards? I bought a pack of the #5's yesterday, hoping to pattern it sometime soon. I've got a Hevi-Shot Hevi-13 turkey choke in from last year. Its a .667 I believe.
Title: Re: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: vaturkey on December 29, 2014, 10:55:10 AM
Quote from: rbreedi1 on December 29, 2014, 10:13:24 AM
Anyone done any patterning with an M2 12ga and Winchester Longbeards? I bought a pack of the #5's yesterday, hoping to pattern it sometime soon. I've got a Hevi-Shot Hevi-13 turkey choke in from last year. Its a .667 I believe.

The Hevi 13  choke is .662
Title: Re: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: rbreedi1 on December 29, 2014, 01:16:33 PM
I just went and looked. It has .667 printed on it.
Title: Re: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: d.winsor on December 29, 2014, 04:16:47 PM
The long beard shells with #5 shot ought to shoot very well out of that .667 choke.  I shoot a Briley .665 and the patterns are awesome.
Title: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: WV Ridge Reaper on December 29, 2014, 04:39:03 PM
Shootin 6s out of a 665 or a 650..dead turkey's for days
Title: Re: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: SumToy on December 29, 2014, 09:12:58 PM
We have shot them in 650,660 and 665.  They like the 4's and 6's never did like the patterns we got with the 5's.  Now they would kill a bird but I look at the over all pattern and the 4's and 6's was the best looking.
Title: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: reynolds243 on December 29, 2014, 11:38:05 PM
Shot my SBE2 with a 650 Rob  Roberts and longboards #5 and 6 with good results. Actually likes the 5s the best with it


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Title: Re: Benelli M2 with Longbeards
Post by: allaboutshooting on December 30, 2014, 07:18:08 PM
Quote from: rbreedi1 on December 29, 2014, 10:13:24 AM
Anyone done any patterning with an M2 12ga and Winchester Longbeards? I bought a pack of the #5's yesterday, hoping to pattern it sometime soon. I've got a Hevi-Shot Hevi-13 turkey choke in from last year. Its a .667 I believe.

I'm shooting both of the Hevi-Shot chokes, ported and non-ported with different exit diameters,  in the "Turkey Choke Evaluation Project" with WLB shells and the Benelli 12 gauge "Crio" barrels.
Please "stay tuned" for my results.
Thanks,
Clark