Best lead load for IC choke

[hosscat]

I'm setting up my new dedicated turkey gun, Win 1300, 22" barrel, IC choke tube.  I'm have some nitro mega weights that I am going to shoot, but I plan on calling up 1 or 2 for my wife and I'm looking for something else, for her to shoot.  Probably a 2-3/4" load (it has a scope and I don't want her to get scope eye).  Does anyone have any loads I should recommend first.

Thanks,

[BandedSpur]

Winch STH 126 is a 2.75" 1.5 oz load of buffered, CP 6s that should do well to 35 yds or so from that choke. Recoil will still be relatively stout at 1300 fps. Believe it or not, a high quality target load with 1.125 oz of 7.5s will kill any turkey alive to 35 yds from that choke with very little recoil. Take a look at this 30 yd pattern shot from my 1187/ IC .665 @ 30 yds. Lead 7.5s have the energy to cleanly kill to 35.

[stinkpickle]

Have you considered some of the 2 3/4" hevishot loads?

[BrowningGuy88]

I'm setting up my new dedicated turkey gun, Win 1300, 22" barrel, IC choke tube.  I'm have some nitro mega weights that I am going to shoot, but I plan on calling up 1 or 2 for my wife and I'm looking for something else, for her to shoot.  Probably a 2-3/4" load (it has a scope and I don't want her to get scope eye).  Does anyone have any loads I should recommend first.

Thanks,

For many years, my grandfather shot Winchester 2.75" 1.5 ounce 6's out of the Winny 1300 NWTF of his. He killed a pile of birds with those loads.

[hosscat]

I am looking for something less expensive, and I am leaning heavily toward the Winchester 1.5oz. #6, I am going to try and pick up a box today so I can check its pattern this weekend.  Since my IC tube is a documented producer with HTL loads if the lead 6's don't work out I may end up getting some hevi shot.

Thanks,  I will try and post some numbers on Monday.

[BrowningGuy88]

FWIW, my wife is 5'6 and 120 lbs and she killed all of her birds last year with the same 1300 NWTF and Hevi 3/2/7's. I had her pattern with high brass field loads and shoot 3" on hunts. She never said it kicked her.

[hosscat]

Very happy with my results.  It was raining at my house but I have an pretty goos size barn so I decided I would just set my target about 20 yards outside and I would shoot from inside the barn.

First off I thought I had my scope pretty well sighted in with the factory win. turkey choke, but when I shot it with the IC choke I was off around 14" at 30 yards.  So I had to send the next few shots getting it back sighted in.  I ended up getting a box of 3" federal strut shok 1-3/4 oz #6's as a backup to my nitros.  I only shot them at 20 and 30 yards, I didn't count the 20 yard pattern but the 30 yard was 204 in a 10" circle, very nice. 

Then I backed up to 40 yards and shot one of my 3" nitro mega weights, I counted 251, in the 10" ring at a ranged 40 yards.  Very pumped.