You're going for a Grand Slam. You can only take one gun and 1 caller that you currently own. You're limited to 1 shell for each subspecies; 4 shells total. Don't miss!
What's it gonna be?
Gun: gauge, manufacturer, model, sights/accessories, choke...?
Shell: brand, shot size/weight, type...?
Caller: friction, mouth,...?
12 gauge 870 with Hevi Mag Blend 2 3/4" with a Rhino .661 choke regular bead sight and a Watkins short box in Mora/Butternut combo
Rem 870 youth 20 gauge w/ truglo 30mm gobble-dot
Fed HW 3" #7
Hooks Swindler mouth call
(That last "pick one" caller is a tough choice... but if I have to plan for any and all weather, etc. I'm probably gonna pick that diaphragm if I'm being honest with myself.)
Old 870
Probably use the same box call I started with so many years ago.
Benelli M2 20 gauge 1 5/8 tss
8/9 IC 555 tru glo gobbler pro sights
Del crow mouth call
My Rem. 870 - 20 gauge 21 inch barrel, Simmons pro diamand shooting Federal HW 7 - choke Trulock 565 Box call from Jeff White - Purpleheart over butternut with rain chalk.
870, Hevi 7's, Hooks Enforcer mouth call.
Browning silver, 3 1/2" longbeards 6 shot,Indian creek choke
My old lynch box call I bought in liberty in 1980 , it's a workhorse
Gun - Remington 870 SM w/Burris FF2 (Speedbead)
Shells - 3.5" 2.25 oz #6 Hevishot (Only because I don't currently load 12 ga TSS)
Call - one of the 3 reed calls I make
Mossy 835. 3 1/2 #4 win longbeards. Box call I made 10 years ago butternut and cherry. ( I'd hate to leave without my mouth calls though
I'm staying home if I can't take more than four shells and one call. I'll save a little more money and go next year.
SA459, 20ga, 3" Fed HW 7'S, and a mouth call, not sure what it is other than its a Primos something or another.
Benelli m2 20 gauge
Fed Hevy weight #7
Front bead
Tony Reynolds Carolina assassin that I have had for 18 years now!
Gun - 1958 Savage 220 single shot 20 gauge- customized by William Lambert at Sumtoy. .562 ST choke, Burris FF3
Shell- 3" TSS handloads 1 5/8oz #9s
Call - Billy Buice early 1980s Cocabola trumpet
My Mossberg 500 20 ga with Carlson 575 shooting handloaded TSS 1 5/8 oz 9s
Loftis Crystal Screamer with Fowler Snakewood.
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Same gun I have used for 16 years now.
Mossy 835 shooting hevi shot#6 through an original star dot tube. And a mouthcall. I ain't gonna say which but can I have a backup of it in case I loose the first one?
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Quote from: Happy on July 01, 2017, 09:04:09 PM
Same gun I have used for 16 years now.
Mossy 835 shooting hevi shot#6 through an original star dot tube. And a mouthcall. I ain't gonna say which but can I have a backup of it in case I loose the first one?
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Nope. Lose it and you'll have to use your vocal chords.
Mossy 835 kicks tube and 3 1/2 federal #5's My micarta aluminum with my fiber striker. Gotta run a pot and this one will do it wet or dry.
Lots of ole reliable 870's, but it looks like a renaissance for Mossy 835's as well.
I think I'd have to dust off my 835, dig around for my IC 675 choke, and scrounge up four 3.5" #5 LBs. Probably going to grab a fresh Hooks Cutter diaphragm.
Since there were no other limits, I'll take a neurologist along to treat the concussions that that gun & ammo combination will inflict.
Benelli super nova 12 gauge with a bushnell red dot. Four 3.5 inch LB #6's. Call would be Daybreak ceramic with a dymondwood striker.
Mossberg super bantam 20ga., Fed 3" #7hvwt, SSX choke, wing bone call
My SBE with a Heavy 13 choke and Magnum Blend. A Country Boy mouth call
I'm 3/5ths of the way there with; Franchi Affinity 20 ga, FastFire III, HW 7s, Crystal Mistress.
Gun - Weatherby SA459 20 gauge
Shells - 3" Federal HW 7'S
Call - Atomic 13
Benelli m2 20 ga with fastfire 3 and indian creek .555
4 3" 1-5/8 oz #9 tss
Richard hudson snakewood over english walnut hen box
Any one of my 870s, a load of tss#9 and a Gooserbat OsS mouth call.
Benelli M1 20 with 1-5/8 oz of TSS 9's. Southland Yellowheart Crystal.
The answer to the call 3 years ago would've been a Cane Creek Tuff Man, but they changed something. Not sure what, but definitely something
Quote from: Spurs Up on July 01, 2017, 09:37:56 PM
Quote from: Happy on July 01, 2017, 09:04:09 PM
Same gun I have used for 16 years now.
Mossy 835 shooting hevi shot#6 through an original star dot tube. And a mouthcall. I ain't gonna say which but can I have a backup of it in case I loose the first one?
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Nope. Lose it and you'll have to use your vocal chords.
Might as well only give me two shells then. By the time I shoot those two I will have lost the mouthcall and my voice calling is going to resemble a yeti mating call. Or one in severe agony.
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Wow that's tuff.
Yildiz 28 ga o/u fixed full,
4 1-5/16 oz T9.5
Hooks executioner 2.
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870
Hevi 7's
Yingling
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I would go with my CZ 712 utility with kicks tube and 3" Federal premium #6's 2 oz load and a Mike Yingling cactus Titanium with 2 strikers one is his carbon and the other would be Osage so far,but I'm getting a couple others to try. I haven't even hunted this call yet but I already know it's a killer.
10 year old Mossy 835 with a PG .670 choke, 3 1/2 Hevi 7's
Hooks EX or EX 2
Quote from: Chris O on July 02, 2017, 07:56:19 PM
I would go with my CZ 712 utility with kicks tube and 3" Federal premium #6's 2 oz load and a Mike Yingling cactus Titanium with 2 strikers one is his carbon and the other would be Osage so far,but I'm getting a couple others to try. I haven't even hunted this call yet but I already know it's a killer.
Sounds like a killer combo.
Glad you could clarify that Yingling thing. Sbbow's post had me thinking he's was baiting them with beer. :drool:
Beretta 390 with a .665 Hastings choke, Longbeard XR 6's. And probably an Ol Yeller with a gray tip striker, ready for any weather.
Remington Youth 870, rem super full,
tss 8.5, 1 5/8
XT diaphragm or wingbone
Remington 20 ga 870 Compact 21" Barrel
Federal 3" Strut-Shok #5s
Quaker Boy waterproof box call
Multiple grand slams and one single season slam all with an 870 super mag special purpose, Williams fire sights, Sumtoy .650 and hevi 13 6s.
The call is irrelevant but I prefer a mouth call from Hooks.
Toot,toot!
i am still carrying the gun i started turkey hunting with in 1991 - mossberg 500
have shot winchester 3 inch XX no. 5s for about 20 years
one call ... would have to be a diaphragm and my current favorite is a woodhaven copperhead
Super X3 with a Burris Speed Dot 135 and an Indian Creek BDS tube
3 1/2" LBXR in #5 or #4............ take yer pick
Gooserbat Heckler diaphargm
My 835, 4 3.5" Win HV 5's and my Cody glass as long as I can carry multiple strikers or my old Quaker Boy push pin.
Winchester SX3 20 gauge.
Federal HW 7's out of a Carlson's choke. Can't remember the constriction....580 maybe?
The call would be a Hooks Executioner II or a Woodhaven Red Wasp, whichever sounded good to my ear before the first hunt.
Winchester 1300 nwtf 12ga
2-7 x 33 leupold
Indian Creek choke 660 constriction
2 Oz load of tss
Call would be an old mad super aluminator with an acrylic striker.
Old Faithful-12 gauge Remington 3" Hevishot #7 with Ventilator choke, Primos True Double
My SX2 with a Leupold 2-7x40 scope
with Winchesters LBs in 12ga, 3.5", 2oz of #4s
with a Woodhaven two reed mouth call.
Gun- Benelli M2 20ga. Ammunition - my 1.625oz tss9 reloads. Call- mouth call. Either Gooserbat or Hooks
NWTF Browning Gold, 12 ga. With a FF 2 and a Indian Creek .665. Heavy 13 3.5" 7's. Lynch 101 box call.
My old Mossberg 835--Winchester 3" #4s-- and my old H.S. Strut triple glass caller with a flood zone all weather striker.
It's gonna have to be the 870 Special Purposes, with a Carlsons Longbeard Choke. Grab four LB XR #6's, and my the moth call that sounded best to my ear before the first hunt, this last season I really enjoyed running an old Quaker Boy mouth call that still sounds nice after years of use!
SA459 20
Fed HW#7
crappy little Raspy Old Hen mouth call - I have others, but that one is my go to.
Mossberg 835 w factory choke, old Winchester supremes 4 or 5 and a mouth call. It just works
Mossberg 835 w/3.5" #4;s..A few shells a year doesn't hurt too much....plus it has worked on so many birds.
Mouth call is the smart choice right now, but trumpets are gaining ground in my mind.
870 with 4 x 3" 3rd Degree, grand slam corian slate with my cane yelper as a striker and back-up.
935
Winchester #6 super x shells
Wingbone