How about a new bolt action turkey gun?????

[Mike Honcho]

Last fall I saw a Savage 212 bolt action 12ga. slug gun at  a gun shop.  That got me thinking....what if Savage made a version with a 20-22" back bored and interchangeable choke barrel in camo for turkey?

It would be a great platform for optics.   

I would buy one!   What do you guys think?

[Mike Honcho]

A 700 would be nice.  I just suggested the Savage because they already make the 212 slug gun.  I'm not really concerned with needing a quick 2nd shot on turkey so the bolt platform I think would be fine...I have a gunsafe full of high powered deer rifles and they way I hunt turkeys (mostly field birds) longer shots can be the norm, so a turkey gun more like a deer rifle would be appealing to me.   

I wrote the Director of Marketing at Savage a letter with my suggestion and reasoning behind it.

It'll at least give them a chuckle at the water cooler when they get it.

[davisd9]

My dad has a Mossberg Bolt action shotgun with a fixed full choke.  30" barrel.  I have considered running some hw federals down it to see what it would do.

[dirt road ninja]

I think they make or made one at one time. Check out the below article.

http://www.gunblast.com/Savage_210FT.htm

[Mike Honcho]

Wow...I had never seen that gun before.  Maybe Savage discontinued it ....I didn't see it on their website recently when I was looking at the 212.


I'd like to find one of those.

[drenalinld]

That is way cool!!

[lowoctane]

Get a Marlin Goose Gun, 3", and have the barrel cut and threaded. It's a 36" barrel... :smiley-patriotic-flagwaver-a

[Skeeterbait]

The article is from 2005.  The camo is first generation Advantage which hasn't been available for many years. 

[mightyjoeyoung]

Sold a couple at my old store.  SOLID platforms for sure!  Wishing I would have ponied up the ching for one back then, but I was trying to get out of retail and go to school so I didn't have the money to spare at the time...

[davisd9]

This looks like my dad's except his does not have the muzzle break at the end of the barrel.

[Brian Stewart]

that isn't a muzzle brake it is a poly choke. you can change the constriction on it.

[mudhen]

Too bad all the new Browning A-Bolt shotguns are rifled barrels...

mudhen

[grousec]

I had a Marlin bolt action 12 ga as a teen years ago.  My first shotgun.  I didn't like at all, finally worked after school and saved enough money to buy an 1100, sold the Marlin.   And with today semi-auto's I sure wouldn't want to go backward to a bolt action.  Couldn't give me one if I had to use it.

[davisd9]

that isn't a muzzle brake it is a poly choke. you can change the constriction on it.

Whatever it is, it is not on my dad's gun.

[allaboutshooting]

Most of the custom guns that you see at still target shoots began their life as a Savage 210. There are several folks out there who do custom work to those guns, making shotgun barrels for them, etc. Most are into "card shooting guns" but some have branched out into the still target shooting world as well.

They make very stable shooting platforms and there are several aftermarket triggers that work exceptionally well.

Savage has made at least 2 versions of turkey guns over the years, pretty much as you've described except the barrels were not overbored. They just were not popular enough to keep the interest of that company.

Now that Savage has been sold, it will be interesting to see which direction they go. It's always hard to tell when there are major changes or changes in ownership of a company.

Thanks,
Clark