Just thought it would be interesting conversation. How many different guns have you killed turkeys with? I have shot gobblers with a beretta 686, rem 870, rem 11-87, mossberg 935, rem sp10, benelli nova, win super x2, and benelli super black eagle2. Still own the 870, 11-87, nova, super x2, and sbe2.
One. A mossburg 835. Think we are going on 15 years together.
I've killed a few birds with an H&R Topper single shot .410 that I got when I was a kid, but other than that It's been my 20 gauge Ithaca Featherlight. I've had it for 35 years and I hunt everything with it, It's an old friend.
Bob
Just three birds with my Benelli SBE 2. Just ordered a Winchester SX3 and hope to get a bird or two with that this year.
4
Mossberg 835
Remington 1100 magnum
Remington 20ga 870 youth
Charles Daly 20ga pump
2
Killed my first with a 1100 with 2 3/4 #5 lead HOOKED!!!
Bought an 835 and it's been her and I for the last 8 years
Four for me, missed one with another.
6 different guns and got a new gun for this year.
one gun - 36 years !!!! OLD SCHOOL
H & R 10 ga. - single shot
cut and sleeved (21") and got the enforcing cone lengthened (no choke tube)
It is a killin machine.
Many Gobblers have fallen to date and still going strong. :smiley-patriotic-flagwaver-an
Winchester Model 50
Franchi 912
Mossberg 835
Mossberg 935
Browning BPS 10
Stoeger 3500
One gun for 36 years!!! You would be my wife's hero!!! When I think about all the money spent I wish I would have stuck with the first one!!
After all the guns I've used, my current one doesn't kill turkeys any deader than the first one I ever used!!
One Ol Mossy 835 close to 25 years. New 20 this year. :fud: :OGani:
Remington 870, Versa Max and a Maxus. Along these lines I want to get a shotgun in every gauge and try and kill a turkey with every one. Just added a Winchester SX3 in 20 gauge this year. That's a very nice gun and will probably get most of the hunts if I can get it patterned. Chief
out of all my guns I've never killed one with a 20 gauge. The one I killed with the 10 gauge was with a buddy's gun. All the others have been with a 12. I've been thinking about a 20 gauge build. But saving my money for a merriams hunt first! Think it would be awesome to kill one with every gauge from .410-10! But the .410 and 28 might be beyond my skill level!!
Remington 870 SP Turkey
Remington 870 SuperMag
I hope to add an 870 20ga to that list this year.
Well, it's a list but I'll shorten it to keep it somewhat sane:
Winchester sx2, h&r excel auto, rem 870, to many rifles to even consider recalling. Would like to add that even with the rifles, the vast majority of the birds were still shot well within acceptable shotgun range. Only in recent years have I been talked into being more adamant about the use of a shotgun. Trying to make a conscious effort this year.
Most of my kills have been with my Mossberg 835 but every new gun I get I have to kill atleast one bird with it. I have to say though every time I walk out of the house with any other gun I feel as to if I left my vest there too. I guess it's sentimental to me. But others that I have used are: Auto-5,Browning Gold,New A5, Remington 1148 20ga, Mossberg 500. I might have missed some but those are the ones that come to the top of the head. This year I have got aM2 20 ga and a SBE2 that is needing to get acquainted with this amazing creatures. Good luck to everyone this spring
6 or 7.
Mossberg pre 97 500
Winchester 1300
Mossberg 835
Remington 870
So 4.
Killed my first turkey with my BPS 10, since then 835, 870, and another BPS 10, back to the 835 this year and still tryn to seal the deal with my 870 20.
Quote from: Byhalia on February 27, 2016, 06:45:56 PM
one gun - 36 years !!!! OLD SCHOOL
H & R 10 ga. - single shot
cut and sleeved (21") and got the enforcing cone lengthened (no choke tube)
It is a killin machine.
Many Gobblers have fallen to date and still going strong. :smiley-patriotic-flagwaver-an
My Dad gave me the gun early one fall with my first deer season in mind. I used it on small game before deer season opened then killed my first buck and a doe with it that year. I'm sure Dad intended it to be a starter gun for me for deer hunting, but after killing a couple deer with it, there was no way I was parting with it. In the years since, I've used it on everything from woodcock to a couple black bears. Like I said, It's an old reliable friend and I wouldn't part with it for anything.
Dad had an old 12 gauge Ithaca that my mom got him in the 50's and if my sister didn't steal it and sell it when he died, along with his other guns, I'd probably be using it on turkeys for sentimental reasons. Luckily, she missed the full choke barrel that went with it, so I took the old raybar sight off it and put it on my 20.
Bob
10 or 12? From the 20 gauge to the 10 gauge , single shot to the Auto, 21" barrel to 36".
Wish i still had them all.
1200 Winchester pump, 870 wingmaster, 3 different old school camo 11-87s, a 20 guage youth model and a 11-87 super magnum affectionately known as the "pasture cannon".......O and and a mossburg 835 Still have all of them but the mossburg.........
I have two turkey slaying machines. My first one is Rem 11-87 3" 12g with a 23" barrel. My second one is a Win SX2 3.5" 26" barrel. Believe it or not, my Rem has been out performing my SX2 but I'm still working on it. I've killed numerous of birds with both of them.
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11 birds 7 guns And 6 different shells!!! And we argue over what's best....lol
First couple turkeys fell to an old Steven's pump I built from a bag of parts my father gave me when I was 11. Then I carried a old 36" bbl H&R long tom single shot. Man does that gun SHOOT. Kicks you like a rented mule too! After that I started my love afair with the 1300 and then the 835, both models of which inhave owned more than 5 each. When I bought my SBE II I thought I was done...nope! Now I've been running the lil 20s for about 8 years and love those light, nimble, killers. A couple 870s and a TC encore now, but I have plans for another ultralight single shot, a nice semi like the SA-20 and a bantam 500 formthe girls. Fun times!!
Quote from: Happy on February 27, 2016, 03:17:58 PM
One. A mossburg 835. Think we are going on 15 years together.
Same here exactly
Sent from the barrel of a model 70 at 3300 fps
Well I have never really thought about it.
410 single shot
Savage 20 gauge single shot
Remington 870 Youth
Winchester 1300 NWTF
Mossberg 835
Mossberg 935
Browning BPS 10
Remington 1100
Remington Versa Max
Another Mossberg 835
There are probably a couple more I forget, but I have killed a BUNCH of turkeys and mostly just one or two with each gun except the Remington 870 Youth 20 gauge and the Winchester 1300 NWTF. I have killed 60 or so with the 20 and 25 or 30 with the Winchester.
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Quote from: Byhalia on February 27, 2016, 06:45:56 PM
one gun - 36 years !!!! OLD SCHOOL
H & R 10 ga. - single shot
cut and sleeved (21") and got the enforcing cone lengthened (no choke tube)
It is a killin machine.
Many Gobblers have fallen to date and still going strong. :smiley-patriotic-flagwaver-an
Awesome ... how's your shoulder doing? I hope well.
20 ga H&R Topper 158 - my childhood gun
12 ga 870 Special Field - wish I kept this one
20 ga 870 Special Field - wish I had kept this one as well
12 ga 870 SM with 23" Barrel - taken most of my birds with this
20 ga 870 Express - killed 3 of last 4 with this one - becoming my fav
1. Winchester 12 gauge pump (don't remember the model number).
2. Mossberg 835
3. Winchester 1300 NWTF
4. Browning a5 Light Twelve
5. Remington 870 Supermag
6. Remington SP10
7. Benelli SBEII
This year:
Franchi Affinity 20 gauge
Remington 870 Youth 20 gauge
Lonster
Grandpa's (1st production year) Remington 870 Wingmaster 12 **Retired**
Remington 1100 SP12
Ithaca Mag 10
Browning A-5 Lt. 12
Browning Belgium Double Auto 12
T/C New Englander Muzzleloader Shotgun
(2) Mossberg 835 12 3 1/2" HAMMERS!
Benelli SBE 12
Benelli SBEII 12 (Current use)
T/C Encore 20 (Current use)
2 pieces, a late 90's woodlands camo 835 which has taken the bulk of my birds and a plain matte black Beretta 390 has taken a few also.
1)( First bird) Winchester Model 12
2) 870 12 gauge
3) 870 20 gauge
Dont forsee the list getting any longer
1 gun. Remington 870 Express. My dad bought it for me on my 13th birthday. I'll be 31 this year. I've killed a lot of birds with that gun. I'm thinking of retiring it but it does have a lot of sentimental value.
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Stoeger M3500
Browning BPS
Charles Daly
Remington 870 3.5" Super Mag 23"
Browning BPS 10 ga. 24"
Remington 870 3.5" Super Mag. 26"
Benelli Super Black Eagle I 24"
Ithaca/Tikka LSA 55 OU Turkey Gun 12 ga./222 Rem.
Remington 700 ADL 223 Rem.
Remington Nylon Model 11 22 Long Rifle .Winchester Super X 38gr HP ammo (First turkey ever, 16 pound 6" beard Gobbler) Taken on opening day of the Pa. fall season 1974)
Killed a couple with my NEF Pardner 12GA. The rest with my 835
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Iver Johnson side by side
Sears and robuck single shot 12
870
S&W model 27
Sx2
Beretta xtrema2
Sbe2
BPS 20
rock(when I was much younger and could throw fast)
Bear kodiak
Quote from: CrustyRusty on March 10, 2016, 08:12:22 AM
Iver Johnson side by side
Sears and robuck single shot 12
870
S&W model 27
Sx2
Beretta xtrema2
Sbe2
BPS 20
rock(when I was much younger and could throw fast)
Bear kodiak
You're the only person I know that's killed one with a rock. :you_rock:
I killed a deer with a hatchet once, but somebody had already put her out of commission with a vehicle and I was just putting an end to a bad situation.
Bob
One gun. Over 26 years. 30+ birds.
Remington 870.
My first two years a Winchester Model 12, the last 28 yuears an 870. This winter I picked up a 20 GA to play with. It almost doesn't seem right the thought of not taking the old reliable 870 this spring. It will still get some filed time but on hunts where I anticipate a ton of walking the 20GA will be on my shoulder.
Killing one with a rock is real old school, OldSchool...lol :funnyturkey:
Quote from: OldSchool on March 10, 2016, 08:42:33 AM
Quote from: CrustyRusty on March 10, 2016, 08:12:22 AM
Iver Johnson side by side
Sears and robuck single shot 12
870
S&W model 27
Sx2
Beretta xtrema2
Sbe2
BPS 20
rock(when I was much younger and could throw fast)
Bear kodiak
You're the only person I know that's killed one with a rock. :you_rock:
I killed a deer with a hatchet once, but somebody had already put her out of commission with a vehicle and I was just putting an end to a bad situation.
Bob
Quote from: CrustyRusty on March 10, 2016, 01:16:29 PM
Killing one with a rock is real old school, OldSchool...lol :funnyturkey:
Quote from: OldSchool on March 10, 2016, 08:42:33 AM
Quote from: CrustyRusty on March 10, 2016, 08:12:22 AM
Iver Johnson side by side
Sears and robuck single shot 12
870
S&W model 27
Sx2
Beretta xtrema2
Sbe2
BPS 20
rock(when I was much younger and could throw fast)
Bear kodiak
You're the only person I know that's killed one with a rock. :you_rock:
I killed a deer with a hatchet once, but somebody had already put her out of commission with a vehicle and I was just putting an end to a bad situation.
Bob
Old school for sure! And I thought I've been giving them every advantage hunting with a 2 3/4" 20 gauge lol.
Bob
Winchester 1200 12ga
Remington 870 12ga
Browning BPS 10ga
Beretta AL-390 12ga
Winchester SX2 12ga
Winchester SX3 12ga
I think those are all of them.........................
Mossberg 835, Remington 870, Mossberg 500, Winchester 1300, and Benelli Vinci
Extrema2 12ga and 1187 20ga. All of my birds have fallen to Nitro Company shells.
2 shotguns and a Bow
Tristar Viper - 1 bird
Beretta A300 - 2 birds
Bear Attack - 1 bird
Mossberg Maverick 88 black with old school camo stock
Wood stock 870 short barrel tky
Mossberg 835 MO shadow branch
Mossberg 835 MO breakup
Rem 870 supermag MO breakup
Mossberg 535 MO breakup
Rem 870 supermag...can't remember the finish except it was a cheap looking walmart camo
Beretta Pintail NWTF black with MO breakup stock
Beretta 390 black
Beretta Xtrema Realtree
Rem 870 20 gauge black
Rem 870 20 gauge cerakote with knoxx stock
Rem 870 20 gauge MO old bottomland
Win SX3 MO breakup infinity
Mossberg 835 MO new breakup
870 in 12 ga
500 in 12 ga
500 in 20 ga
Going to take the Franchi Affinity & the Benelli Nova both in 20 ga out this year.
Belgium Browning 12ga
Remington 1187 12 GA
Remington 1100 20 GA
Remington 1187 20 GA
Ithaca dbl bbl. 12ga
Wincheater1300 12 GA
Lets see...Mossberg 500, 835 (several variations), Remington 870 (several variations), SP-10, Winchester SX2, Beretta 391
Remington 870
Ithaca turkeyslayer
Mathews helium