DartonJager
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Last season I put a Leupold
Varix-II 2-7X32mm shotgun scope on both my Turkey guns. My eyesight changed two seasons ago and I had great difficulty seeing the front fiber optic sight clearly and for the first time in at least 17-18 seasons I missed a bird. My friend test shot my gun that day and the sights were still on. Thankfully we called in a big ole Tom the next morning ad I connected at 20 yards.
I went to the range and quickly discovered I was without realizing it moving my head around trying to get a better sight picture with my fiber optic iron sights combined with an awkward seated shooting position and the front sight in limited first light of early morning was hazing up on me and I knew why I had missed.
With the scope set on and left at 2x I had no issues picking up and hitting last years Tom at 30 yards or so as he quickly was moving towards my decoys with two other Toms in tow.
I was treated to a sight I've seen only once prior when I dropped a Tom that had others with him. At the shot the Tom just drop stone dead and the two other Toms without hesitation commenced to woopping on him without mercy . So intent on pumuling their fallen fellow Tom that I got up and was able to walk within 10 or 12 yards before either Tom noticed me and then they about turned inside trying to get away from me, one ran right into a low limb and knocked himself senseless was flopping around for about 10 seconds till he regained his wits and fled like his a $$ was on fire and his head was catching.
From here on out I will be using a scoped turkey gun, I realize it could cost me on a fast moving or flusing turkey but I can't hit what I can't see.
Varix-II 2-7X32mm shotgun scope on both my Turkey guns. My eyesight changed two seasons ago and I had great difficulty seeing the front fiber optic sight clearly and for the first time in at least 17-18 seasons I missed a bird. My friend test shot my gun that day and the sights were still on. Thankfully we called in a big ole Tom the next morning ad I connected at 20 yards.
I went to the range and quickly discovered I was without realizing it moving my head around trying to get a better sight picture with my fiber optic iron sights combined with an awkward seated shooting position and the front sight in limited first light of early morning was hazing up on me and I knew why I had missed.
With the scope set on and left at 2x I had no issues picking up and hitting last years Tom at 30 yards or so as he quickly was moving towards my decoys with two other Toms in tow.
I was treated to a sight I've seen only once prior when I dropped a Tom that had others with him. At the shot the Tom just drop stone dead and the two other Toms without hesitation commenced to woopping on him without mercy . So intent on pumuling their fallen fellow Tom that I got up and was able to walk within 10 or 12 yards before either Tom noticed me and then they about turned inside trying to get away from me, one ran right into a low limb and knocked himself senseless was flopping around for about 10 seconds till he regained his wits and fled like his a $$ was on fire and his head was catching.
From here on out I will be using a scoped turkey gun, I realize it could cost me on a fast moving or flusing turkey but I can't hit what I can't see.