Weapon Setup

[JuniorPre 360]

Just interested in what everyone has to go out and kill turkeys. I'll start. I have a Max4 Stoeger M3500 with a Primos JellyHead choke tube. I patterned with the Winchester LongBeard and got awesome results. I'm ordering a pistol grip stock soon.

[Big Treble]

DIY camo'ed 870 26" barrel, truglo sights, kicks choke tube and 3" longbeards, providing of course this combo patterns well.

[Bigeclipse]

im using a Beretta pintail 24 inch barrel, 3inch shells.  I have 4 chokes but have only patterned with two.  So far the hevi choke patterns with longbeard #5s excellent out to 50 yards but will keep shots at 40yards.  This way if the turkey is really at 45, I will still get a good hit.
New for this year I will be hunting with a burris fastfire III.  I have used red dots on pistols with great success so I feel this will work well for me.

Full disclosure: I bagged a hen during fall this past year but I don't count her as a turkey kill because I was actually bow hunting for deer and she just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

[bamagtrdude]

Stoeger M2000 w/Primos Tight Wad & "blended" turkey shells.

[GomerPyle]

last year I carried a Stoeger 3500, 28" barrel with a Primos tightwad and magblends.  got good patterns out of it but it's just a heavy gun.

This year I'll be toting a Winchester 1300, 22" barrel and I'm going to start with the tightwad/magblend combo and see how it performs.  I'm about to order a pistol grip stock for it as well, plus the Williams Fire Sights.

that Winchester is a full 3 pounds lighter than the stoeger

[kevin2]

Mathews Chill 70lbs bow, set to 58lbs for hunting. Will try once again to get my Gobbler with this in a blind set up near Gobblers morning hang out. If they move on OR get hung up, then I'll have my Stoeger 12G with Long Beard #6s ready to go. Already patterned this gun with my new burris FastFire lll. Seems like a sweet set up. WE shall see!

[ScottS]

M2000 max4 stoeger with 26 inch barrel, carlsons turkey choke, and 3 inch #6 remington turkey loads.

[JuniorPre 360]

M2000 max4 stoeger with 26 inch barrel, carlsons turkey choke, and 3 inch #6 remington turkey loads.

Carlsons make the best waterfowl choke in my opinion. I was unaware that they made a turkey choke. I'm sure it's awesome.

[Efey]

66lb Hoyt Carbon Spyder Turbo
ABB Platinum strings/cables
Spot hogg hogg father single pin sights
10" bee stinger stabilizer
QAD HDX rest

I do have a beretta a400 that I use for ducks but I really want to bag my first bird with my bow.

[ScottS]

M2000 max4 stoeger with 26 inch barrel, carlsons turkey choke, and 3 inch #6 remington turkey loads.

Carlsons make the best waterfowl choke in my opinion. I was unaware that they made a turkey choke. I'm sure it's awesome.

I love it and the good thing about carlsons is they don't break the bank like some of the other brands but they still perform well. I bought mine probably four years ago.

[mason3toes]

20ga 21'' 870, homebrew camo, sureshot stock,  polished barrel, trs25 red dot, ssx choke, throwing HW 7's.

[kevin2]

How do you like your Spot hogg hogg father single?

66lb Hoyt Carbon Spyder Turbo
ABB Platinum strings/cables
Spot hogg hogg father single pin sights
10" bee stinger stabilizer
QAD HDX rest

I do have a beretta a400 that I use for ducks but I really want to bag my first bird with my bow.

[GomerPyle]

So I finally gave my old Winchester 1300 a makeover....added the Phoenix Technologies stock and a set of Williams Fire Sights.  I'm also thinking about adding a Mossy Oak Bottomland tape kit until I can save up some cash to have it dipped.  Here's the before/after.

[Big Treble]

Looks good Gomer, now camo that bad boy up

[Bigeclipse]

My burris fastfire III just came in. Definitely seems nice so far. I'll sight it in this weekend. Definitely getting more excited the closer we get to May 1st!!!