835 / SSX / Turkey Thugs

[czecheiko]

Anyone had a chance to see how the Federal Tukey Thug shells perform out of the 835/SSX combo?

[cjordan]

With 3.5" #6 thugs mine was only putting about 85-87 in the 10" at 40yds with a 24" barrel. I have read where guys were getting a good bit more with the same set up, so I may need to polish my barrel a little more.

[czecheiko]

Thanks. For $10, i may buy a box to try.  Sounds like I will be ordering the hevi-13's though

[czecheiko]

I picked up a box of Federal Turkey Thug 3.5" 6's.  I didnt have a lot of time, but I touched a couple off this afternoon:

835 , 20" barrel, Truglo SSX,  43 Degrees  --

I got 170 hits in the 10" circle at 30 yards.

Not sure how that would translate at 40, but the Thugs threw a nice even hunting pattern

[Philippe]

My 835 dosent like the SSX, but match it up with the star dot or PG and thugs it will toss very nice lead patterns.

[czecheiko]

Id still like to try some Hevi-13 thru the SSX.  I may give the PG a shot too.  Star dot is pretty much out as they are almost impossible to find.

[alclark2]

I saw where some people had good results with this combo so I tried it and it didn't work well with my setup. I'm going to clean up my barel and try again but the IC BDS .675 did a better even pattern and more pellets.

[heath42]

Got pictures on my phone that I need to put up, but with a dirty barrel and the SSX @ 40 I got 139 with the 3 1/2 thugs. 
Edit: put the pictures up in the pattern pictures thread

[ScottyPotty]

I just tried my 835 with the ssx, #6 turkey thugs 3.5" 20" barrel @ 33 degrees and got 101 hits at 40 yards.   I have never cleaned the barrel so I think I'm going to try that and see what happens.