Sweet Talk Dad out of the Old 870

[Gooserbat]

Dad has my great uncles 870.  It has a 30" fixed full plain barel.  the gun is an early model with a corn cob forarm and the barel is marker 2 1/2 and 2 3/4 shells.  I presume it's an early 50s production.  I've been thinking of sweet talking dad out of it for a hunt and killing a bird with it this spring.  What shells do you guys think would be a good load.  I am looking at Winchester 2 3/4 #6

[nyhunter]

If you can find a 2 3/4" win. xteded range#6 i'd try them.

[savduck]

Man thats cool. If your real worried about it, Id find some bismuth. I have about 8 boxes of 2 3/4 #5s to shoot out of my old fox SS

[albrubacker]

I had good luck with 2 3/4" 5 shot Kent Diamond in a old Ithaca model 37 and shoot half decent in my super nova. If the wife decides she wants to try thats what we are using.

[Mild Bill]

neat old school gun.

Those old Rem fixed full barrels typically ran 0.040 to 0.042 of choke, so while not like the current turkey choke offerings they were a tight full.

[budtripp]

I used to shoot the win xx 2/34" 6's of of my dads old 870 with the 30" full choke trap barrel, they did pretty well on paper but never shot a bird with them that year. Just gave me the idea of taking it out sometime and maybe killing a bird with it

[mossy835]

I have an old JC Higgins model 20 12 ga that I use to shoot Environ classic doubles #6 at pheasants. Hits hard and seems to pattern well (10 rounds per box) Softer than lead but you need to pattern them for reasonable distance.