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<blockquote data-quote="turkeyguide" data-source="post: 2525761" data-attributes="member: 73441"><p>This is my 29th year as a turkey guide and have experienced most of the good and the bad. One thing I will tell you is to keep the barrel short, around 20 inches is pretty much perfect. The shorter gun is easier to carry and maneuver in the woods and if you hunt from a blind you'll be glad of the short length. As far as choke tubes I like Comp N Choke. I have them in all of my turkey guns and have used them in customers guns. They're good people and will help you decide on a choke dependent what gun you have and what shot size you want to shoot. If the choke doesn't perform the way you want call them and they will swap it out for you, you can also send them your gun and they will test tubes and shells and shot size. Now to get to shotguns, I have several turkey guns all with red dot sights on them, you don't need a scope, a red dot is less troublesome, if the dot is on the turkey it doesn't matter where your head is as long as you have dialed the sight in. Sorry I ramble sometimes. Back to Shotguns, I have 2 Remington 870 spst 12 ga 3 in guns and a Mossberg 835 NWTF Grand Slam Gun 12 ga 3.5 in. These are all pump guns, I don't have anything against auto loaders, it's just what I have. I made some changes to the Mossberg for clients to use if they want to, it probably has 25 kills on it with no malfunction in the field. One year after the season I was cleaning it and noticed the magazine cutoff wasn't right so I called Mossberg and they looked up the serial number and found the gun was one week out of warranty, they still sent me the part free of charge. I replaced the part and the gun has been used in the field ever since killing turkeys. I noticed some of the members recommend TSS shot, it is awesome but it's about $10 every time you yank the hook. I have personally tested it and it does work but then so does the Winchester Longbeard XR shells at about half the price. The one thing we did go for them was in 410 shotguns that we have at the lodge for kids to use. I hope you find what you like and welcome to the life long insanity of turkey hunting. If you want or need any further help you can P.M. me, I will be glad to help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="turkeyguide, post: 2525761, member: 73441"] This is my 29th year as a turkey guide and have experienced most of the good and the bad. One thing I will tell you is to keep the barrel short, around 20 inches is pretty much perfect. The shorter gun is easier to carry and maneuver in the woods and if you hunt from a blind you'll be glad of the short length. As far as choke tubes I like Comp N Choke. I have them in all of my turkey guns and have used them in customers guns. They're good people and will help you decide on a choke dependent what gun you have and what shot size you want to shoot. If the choke doesn't perform the way you want call them and they will swap it out for you, you can also send them your gun and they will test tubes and shells and shot size. Now to get to shotguns, I have several turkey guns all with red dot sights on them, you don't need a scope, a red dot is less troublesome, if the dot is on the turkey it doesn't matter where your head is as long as you have dialed the sight in. Sorry I ramble sometimes. Back to Shotguns, I have 2 Remington 870 spst 12 ga 3 in guns and a Mossberg 835 NWTF Grand Slam Gun 12 ga 3.5 in. These are all pump guns, I don't have anything against auto loaders, it's just what I have. I made some changes to the Mossberg for clients to use if they want to, it probably has 25 kills on it with no malfunction in the field. One year after the season I was cleaning it and noticed the magazine cutoff wasn't right so I called Mossberg and they looked up the serial number and found the gun was one week out of warranty, they still sent me the part free of charge. I replaced the part and the gun has been used in the field ever since killing turkeys. I noticed some of the members recommend TSS shot, it is awesome but it's about $10 every time you yank the hook. I have personally tested it and it does work but then so does the Winchester Longbeard XR shells at about half the price. The one thing we did go for them was in 410 shotguns that we have at the lodge for kids to use. I hope you find what you like and welcome to the life long insanity of turkey hunting. If you want or need any further help you can P.M. me, I will be glad to help. [/QUOTE]
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