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Turkey Guns & Shooting => 12 ga Turkey Gun Pattern Pictures => Topic started by: PEPPERHEAD on April 03, 2020, 08:11:30 PM

Title: 1187 Finally Shooting Right
Post by: PEPPERHEAD on April 03, 2020, 08:11:30 PM
It's been a long journey with this little girl but she finally shooting good patterns. In the end it just shoots better dirty. I'm anal about a clean gun. After changing several chokes and shells without success I decided to start over. I put a new King Slayer red dot, Sumtoy 568, and 3 different shells. I shot it several times at 20 yards to get it sighted in. Moved back to 40 and 2 more shots to get it dead on. Didn't clean it at all. Shot 3 different shells, all 3 inch, Apex #9, Federal #9, Hevi 13 Magblend 5-6-7. Here are the results. Much better than before.
Title: Re: 1187 Finally Shooting Right
Post by: SumToy on April 04, 2020, 10:00:12 AM
apex and federal look good
Title: Re: 1187 Finally Shooting Right
Post by: dzsmith on April 04, 2020, 08:27:31 PM
 I feel your pain bud. My 870 always shot a decent pattern, but I felt it could be improved....and between dirty, clean , shells, and chokes I finally got it right.
Title: Re: 1187 Finally Shooting Right
Post by: GregN on April 10, 2020, 02:45:36 PM
Looking good now.. What lenght barrel?
Tx.. Greg

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Title: Re: 1187 Finally Shooting Right
Post by: NightHawk24 on April 27, 2020, 04:51:16 PM
Apex and Federal patterns both look nice!
Title: Re: 1187 Finally Shooting Right
Post by: albrubacker on February 11, 2021, 01:58:17 PM
 :fud: :OGturkeyhead:
Looking good. My 11-87 & 870 does better dirty also.
Title: Re: 1187 Finally Shooting Right
Post by: Tom007 on February 11, 2021, 06:06:16 PM
Looking great, all the patterns will work, but Fed, Apex a bit better....best of luck