Thread: Favorite turkey guns and gear

Originally Posted by LevelWind

Well, shotgun,Stoeger 3500 in camo, shells,Hevi-Shot 5's, rifle sights, factory Beretta standard full choke, and my favorite call is one made in Haywire's neck of the woods. A Winky Hicks pushbutton/slate combo

Winky lives just a couple of miles down the road from my hunting grounds. I have one of his calls, too, but can't make it work. Of course, you could give me a Stradivarius violin and if I didn't put in the time to learn to play it, It would be no use to me.

I've decided to experiment a little for next year. I found a New England Firearms survivor in 20 ga with a 22" barrel at a pawn shop... cheap. Looks like it rode around in the back of someone's truck from coast to coast several dozen times, but doesn't appear to have been fired much. Anyway, I found someone to thread the barrel for a choke tube, drill and tap for scope, and my local gunsmith does cerakoting relatively inexpensively. SO... "relatively inexpensively" I'll have a short, light weight, turkey gun that's quiet to load/unload in the woods, and doesn't punish the shoulder too much. Between longbeard xr's performance in 20 ga (40 yards doesn't appear to be any problem) and the new (but expensive) tss loads (50 yards and beyond) it should have plenty of range to be a nifty little turkey shooter.

Could Always use a bow /xbow with guillotine broadhead

Originally Posted by FSHNERIE

I use a Belgium Browning semi auto with choke tubes. Nice gun but heavy.

Are you fishing Erie right now?

Remington 870....Old Mad choke .665....mag blends....

Originally Posted by crazynewts

Are you fishing Erie right now?

Nope. Sold my boat years ago. Been fishing oceans over the past years. Went up last year to visit old friends. The hatches over the past few years have been outstanding. The fishing up on Erie has been on fire.

You just have to pick and choose your days and not be over confident, that Lake will kill you.

I fished erie with a few friends when I lived in Michigan- maybe a decade ago, best walleye fishing I've ever seen. We fished in the morning-Michigan waters, caught a 3 man limit in an hour or so (an average fish was between 20 and 22", didn't catch a single under sized fish on the trip). We returned to dock to clean and freeze our fish, then back out on the lake to Ohio waters for a second limit, which didn't take much time at all. Well worth the cost of a second fishing license for a weekend of fishing.

so, I've been slowly putting things together on the pawn shop single shot and finally got the carlsons tss choke tube and a box of federal #7 tss 1-1/2 oz turkey shells. The upside- 160 pellets in a 10x10 square at 35 yards (that's the length of my yard and home "range"), so I'm guessing it will easily be a 55 yard turkey gun with that tube/shot combo. Still significantly less than the cost of a new "ready made" turkey gun and very effective. the downside- that little short barreled 20 kicks like a mule with the tss loads. Longbeard xr #5 1-1/4 oz put 120 pellets into the 10X10 square at the same distance and recoil was significantly less, not to mention that longbeard xr is much less expensive than tss...

Originally Posted by fordguy

so, I've been slowly putting things together on the pawn shop single shot and finally got the carlsons tss choke tube and a box of federal #7 tss 1-1/2 oz turkey shells. The upside- 160 pellets in a 10x10 square at 35 yards (that's the length of my yard and home "range"), so I'm guessing it will easily be a 55 yard turkey gun with that tube/shot combo. Still significantly less than the cost of a new "ready made" turkey gun and very effective. the downside- that little short barreled 20 kicks like a mule with the tss loads. Longbeard xr #5 1-1/4 oz put 120 pellets into the 10X10 square at the same distance and recoil was significantly less, not to mention that longbeard xr is much less expensive than tss...

I took a young boy and his dad a while back.... The boy shoots a 410... and it is lethal to 50 yards on longbeards... Just be sure of where to aim.. its got a ridiculous tight pattern...

Originally Posted by Mr. Cleland

I took a young boy and his dad a while back.... The boy shoots a 410... and it is lethal to 50 yards on longbeards... Just be sure of where to aim.. its got a ridiculous tight pattern...

The pawnshop single is a 20 ga, and I had planned on having my significant other use it next spring, no way she's going to want recoil like that...but she might be up to the longbeard xr load.