20 gauge effective range?

[BrowningGuy88]

 He is shooting 1 5/8 ounces of TSS #9's handloaded into the Big20XL load.

[Beak]

 I just picked up an 870 20 gauge Full choke, 30 inch barrel. This is only to and three quarted inch chamber. How effective do you think it would be for turkey?

[BrowningGuy88]

I just picked up an 870 20 gauge Full choke, 30 inch barrel. This is only to and three quarted inch chamber. How effective do you think it would be for turkey?

I would buy the heaviest payload of 7.5's I could get and pattern out to 35 yards and see what you have.

Also, Nitro makes a 2.75" 20 gauge load of hevi that would be bad to the bone.

[Beak]

Okay Thanks Damen

[Sand Man]

You can also cut the 3" hulls we are using for the TSS loads down, take out the felt spacers, and reload the same 1 5/8oz loads in 2 3/4" that we use in 3".  I bet it would be a flat ridiculous pattern thru a 30" barrel even though I'd hate tooting that gun around.

[Michigander]

Holy crap, I shake my head at you guys shooting TSS. Those patterns really are unbelievable. 

But then again, if I wanted to shoot birds at 60 yards, I'd just use my bow all the time. 

Haven't shot a bird yet at 60 and I've seen a bunch die

I was just kidding about the shooting long range. Those are some unbelievable patterns though. 

[turkey_slayer]

Holy crap, I shake my head at you guys shooting TSS. Those patterns really are unbelievable. 

But then again, if I wanted to shoot birds at 60 yards, I'd just use my bow all the time. 

Haven't shot a bird yet at 60 and I've seen a bunch die

I was just kidding about the shooting long range. Those are some unbelievable patterns though. 

I thought you were but wasn't sure. No harm .

[chatterbox]

Alright boys.
My son has a Mossberg 510 20 ga with an 18.5" bbl. This year I'm not doing anything too fancy with it, as his weekends are gonna be filled with baseball, and we're not gonna be in the turkey woods as much as usual. Only modification I am making is adding an FFII to it.
Now, this summer I'm gonna get serious with it. Mossberg has a program where I can purchase an adult stock and forearm for 50% off, so I will be doing that.
I am looking to shoot the Hevi-13 7's.
I'm thinking about an SSX. Has anyone had experience with this combo?