Going to be patterning my new turkey gun, Rem 870 supermag 23" barrel. Already have a hevi .662 choke, going to pick up either a .660 jelly head or .665 Indian creek to try as well. Would like to shoot either the hevi13 3-1/2" #6. Which choke with that gun/load combo do y'all think would perform best?
I have the same gun and I get my best pattern with
the choke that came with it.
Unable to generate any consistent patterns with the Hevi 3.5/ 6's. Hevi 13 .662 will turn good patterns out of all of my 870's with Hevi 3/2/7's. I hear the stock choke does well with Hevi 3/2/6's.
Tough to call all three good chokes.
Ended up picking up the 665 Indian creek from midway since it is on sale for 55 right now. I plan on trying it and the 662 hevi choke with 3-1/2" #6, 3" #6, and 3-1/2" mag blend. I am Leary on the mag blend, something about the various shot size leads me to believe it can cause pattern inconsistencies...may just be in my head!
I have a 870 SPS SM with 23" barrel and I settled on the Indian Creek .665 after also trying the factory choke and a Jelly Head. All three did well but the IC was a bit better. What I also saw is I got more consistent patterns with 3 inch loads compared to 3 1/2. Doing a good deep clean on the barrel also improved consistency.
Went an patterned my gun today...with 3-1/2" #6 and Mag Blend I was ranging from 160 to 183 pellets in a 10" circle at 40 yards. Would y'all keep working on the pattern or take that an run? It was with a Indian creek 665
I got 196 at 40 from my 870/3.5/ LB #5 with a Hevi .662. Just posted in the pattern section. My pattern falls off about 15-20 pellets after each shot. Make sure to have a clean dry barrel is what i noticed
That all sounds about right for a 23" bbl gun...
I think all the choke choices are pretty much good, as is the H-13 6's...
160-180 is what I've been getting for many years, with the occasional 200-220, all from a 24" bbl BPS...
I think you are good to go, or at least good enough for now...
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We run 650 in 3 inch gun. 665 has also gave real good pattern. Now jelly head is one of the hardest chokes we have seen to beat when folks come by to test. I have always told them if we can't beat it shy buy one. LoL.
Quote from: Txag12 on March 14, 2017, 11:06:45 PM
Went an patterned my gun today...with 3-1/2" #6 and Mag Blend I was ranging from 160 to 183 pellets in a 10" circle at 40 yards. Would y'all keep working on the pattern or take that an run? It was with a Indian creek 665
You should get a much better pattern shooting the 3 inch Hevi 6's thru the IC .665 choke. :z-winnersmiley: They just seem to pattern better than the 3 1/2" load.
I will try those 3 inch loads. I was limited by time yesterday, but plan on pretending again this weekend. Have 3" #6 hevi 13 and 3" mag blend I am going to try as well.
My SM does better with 3" loads and so does my shoulder... :fud:
Have a .665 Indian Creek that turns good patterns with Hevi 13 3" 7's and the older 3" Magblends.
Ended up going through 3" magblends and # 6, as well as 3-1/2 mag blends and hevi...tried Indian creek 665, hevi 662, and Remington extended .670.
Remington .670 performed best with 3 inch #6...consistent 170-180
Indian creek was best with 3 inch and 3-1/2 mag blends in the 170-195 range
Hevi .662 did not like the 3 inch 6's...but consistently put 200-220 with the mag blends and 210-230 with 3-1/2 6's with two outliers one at 181 and another at 254
I will post pics later if I can find how to make it work but think I'll be doing the 3-1/2 hevi 13 #6 with hevi 662
Here are the pics of the 6 shots I took with the hevi 13 #6 3-1/2" loads
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What would cause such high variability here? 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shot were with a dirty barrel without cleaning from patterning another load. After 3rd shot I cleaned it then shot the last 3. Also looking at my shot #6...I adjusted my sight to dial in the POI to POA with my red dot, POA is still a little lower than center of POI, would y'all leave it that way? I think it may be best as I typically aim at the wattles
I also think this is a decent pattern with the same load in a .670 Remington HD Extended choke
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v505/woodiesmacker/8860612F-CBCC-4365-8CFA-FE85BE5D73A8.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/woodiesmacker/media/8860612F-CBCC-4365-8CFA-FE85BE5D73A8.jpg.html)