SA-28 compact

[Ranger007]

Picked up a SA-28 compact 23" last week for the boys to hunt with but its looking like i will be carrying it too....

Always have loved the 28 gauge but hated to carry my A400 28 too much because it is such a nice gun and turkey hunting tends to abuse a gun, at least for me...

some Break in shots with 3 different 28GA loads

[Ranger007]

Few more shots.  These are all with Carlson .520

[skimerhorn]

Looks like a killer to me

[Spring Creek Calls]

I really enjoy mine and it's proven it's self in the killin' department.

[Ranman]

Very nice.

[Ranger007]

Shot a few more with an Indian Creek .520

[runngun]

That's great patterns!!! Definitely ain't nothing to sneeze at. I squeaked out 340 with 1.5 ounces of 9s, a Foxtrot ammo load. Especially when I was shooting a factory full choke.

Have a good one, Bo

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[Ranger007]

This is my second 28 to set up but they both are shooters. I really like the 28 gauge

[Ranman]

So what is the final hunting combo gonna be? 

[Ranger007]

Going to run the Indian Creek .520 and either the 1 1/2 oz or 1 5/8 oz hand load 9's.  Have a few of each in my vest whatever ones I grab that morning.


Any new 28"s I load will be the 1 1/2oz load for this gun, the 1 5/8 oz shoots great but I would say its at the point of "diminishing return"

[krm944]

I have looked at patterns and patterning vids until I am blue in the face!


This plain brown butcher paper with your stencil and 10/20" circles with quadrants SHOULD be the standard for anyone doing a pattern test!

It hits necessary requirements:
-large clean fresh paper to identify the entire pattern
-10" and 20" circles show how tight it is
-quadrants show density and uniformity
- focus is on the pattern, not the number of hits in the vitals!

Thank you very much!

[Ranger007]

Thanks. When i first started reloading TSS  years ago I was the same way. There were so many different ways it was done at different distances, circles, squares, etc....

I had to find a way for me to "standardize" my shots at least for my records.

I go through a few rolls of that contractor paper in a year between turkey and duck loads, chokes, guns, buddy's new guns. I get a 140 foot x 36" roll for about $13, I have a Plexiglass 10-20" ring and a 30" ring for duck loads, white spray paint and a good sharpie. Makes them all as close as possible and quick and easy to look back on pics to remember what gun, choke, load combo was shooting.

[treein dixie]

where you get stencil or you make it?

[mountainhunter1]

Those patterns are all good, but I especially like the last you posted with the IC.

Who needs a 20 when you have a 28 gauge shooting like that?

[Ranger007]

where you get stencil or you make it?

I made it from cardboard just out line and cut out with razor knife from a printed turkey target. Can use it over and over with just a can of spray paint