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man if its like here they are picked over
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Does polishing help absolutely. I polish the bore on all of my turkey hunting shotgun(s); with one exception. The exception is a SxS that has chrome lined barrels. Those barrels are mirror bright and as smooth as a newborn baby's butt.
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Chrome lined would be nice.
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The gun was not that expensive; it's a 20ga Remington® SPR220 (Baikal® IZH-43) I bought new in Sep 2007 for $359.95+Tax. It's a well made gun and patterns Winchester® Supreme® and Federal® Flitecontrol® Mag-Shok® #4Pb exceptionally well.
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Looks like a good pattern for 30 yards. Here is the mohawk 2 3/4 6's at 27yds. I patterned a little to the left but it was a good one.
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12ga right?
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Yea 12ga rem 870.
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Demontang, do you aim for the head? Just asking It seems that your pattern is more dense up high.
I always aim about 3"-4 lower than the head to make sure that I dont throw half the pattern over his head. Neck hits down low are just as lethal.
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I always aim for the caruncles/wattles.
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I was holding right on his neck about midway. I noticed my pattern seems to be a little high left which was nice to learn. I hope to go pattern it some more and get it down before I go have a turkey standing in front of me.
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So got my super full choke and went out to pattern it. At 20 years the pattern is about 3in across. Out farther the wind was playing heck with the pattern but it was still way better at 30 the it was at 20 with the full choke
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So I got out I put a few 3" Remington turkey nitro 6shot on paper and they had 6 pellets in the brain at 54yard and 4 in the spine. The 3 in federal turkey strut 3" 4's put 4 pellets in the head/ neck at 54yds. At 40 yards they both put most of the pellets in a 10" area but I didn't get the pattern on the turkey head as I shot low
at 30yds they both put well over 20 in a 2" area! I think the cheap remington 6's are going with me tomorrow morning but the federals did really well too just need to find them in 6 shot. Both loads cost me under 12 a box of ten so I'm happy with how they work out of my shotgun.
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Just my opinion, but I would keep it at 40 and under with 6's. Much further than that and they don't seem to have the energy to kill a bird. I have had a couple knock downs then the bird gets up and runs off. Changed over to 5's and have not had that happen yet. Again just my
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That's weird I've done some playing with penetration and the lead 6 shot wasn't much behind the 4's I just had a few fours at 50 that didn't penetrate the first layer of the box I used and I didnt find any 6's.
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