TK2000 Pattern Pictures

[RangerHD]

Hello everyone, my first post!  Glad I found this place. 

I had always wanted a TK2000 muzzle loading shotgun and for some reason I bought one right before deer season.  So instead of sighting in my rifle and black powder rifle I've been playing with my turkey gun.

I shot a lot last weekend using different mixes of ITX shot 4 and 6. Just about every shot was a dead turkey, but me being me I wanted to play until I found the best pattern. Anyway, I cut open some lead #5s and Hevi 13 #6s (the old ones with the white hulls) and went and bought some "shoot and see" targets.

I finally found my combo I will be hunting with. The one very dense pattern of the picture I attached is Hevi 13 #6 in a TPS 3 inch wad with a white overshot card and 90 grains of triple 7. I turned the target over and drew a 10 inch circle and had 173 hits in a 10 inch circle at roughly 40 yards according to the laser range finder. 

The other target is 3.5 knight wad with knight overshot card 100 grains of triple 7 and mix of ITX shot 4 and 6. Right at 75% 6 shot and 25% 4 shot. It produced right at 95 hits in a 10 inch circle.

The end result of all my shooting is that every single shot would be a dead turkey at 40 yards whether it be lead straight 5 shot, ITX straight 6 shot or ITX straight 4 shot or a combo of 4x6 ITX and it didn't matter if it was a 3 inch wad or 3.5 inch wad or 90 or 100 grains of powder, all were dead turkeys but I really like that Hevi 13 pattern as it was at least 75%-100% better than the rest of my shots.

I ended up ordering a seven pound bag of Hevi Shot #6 and after reading on this forum for the last two night maybe I should have bought some of the #7 shotshells and cut them open before jumping the gun on $200 bucks worth of loose hevi #6.

Hevi 13 #6 40 Yards


ITX 4x6 40 Yards

[nyhunter]

great pattern's. I would say dont bother with the 7's .

[SumToy]

What kind of choke you have.  I have one in that we are working on the figure a way to build a choke for it.   

God the 31/2 wad nitro(brown) hard card (nc12) the yellow felt also.  Now got to find shot and powder.    I have never played with one so this could be fun. 

[RangerHD]

It is the full choke that came with the gun.

[allaboutshooting]

It is the full choke that came with the gun.

I'd say you are through at the patterning board and ready for the turkey woods. You did a great job of getting the patterning job done for the intended purpose of developing a load to effectively kill turkeys. Congratulations and best of luck this spring. I look forward to hearing about your success.

Thanks,
Clark

[magnus]

You guys still hunting/messing with the Knight TK-2000 muzzleloading shotgun?  Any new combos that are working well??

[mnbirdbuster]

Always tinkering with the TK!!! I use a 3.5" TPS wad with 8 3/4" deep slits all around top of wad that make it look kind of like a party favor. Filled with #6 Turkey Trauma 13 which weighs about 2 1/2oz, and I top it off with a 10ga os card with a vent hole slightly off center so air can pass through when seating. I use the oversized 10ga os card to help hold the heavy payload back or at least gain piece of mind. I propelled this load with 90-100gr of ffg T7 with the 95gr being the charge of choice.

[joey46]

First try with a 70gr BP, 2oz shot cup, and 2oz. #6.  Topped with a thin cardboard over shot card.  I'm looking for something that doesn't kick like the 100gr 2 1/2 oz does.
The recoil was noticeably less IMO.  Will play a little more and might go down to 1 3/4oz and 65gr.
This was 35 yards.

I'll add the picture when I remember how this site does it.