Under choked or over choked?

Hard to believe self respecting bird hunters admitting to turkey hunting/ground swatting. If you shoot them on the wing you’re exempted.
 
Goosemaster said:
What you do is you take a headshot on a turkey, they are excellent eating and you do not want to shoot a turkey in the body with lead BB.
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I’ll go ahead and disagree they are excellent eating. I enjoy hunting them in the spring, but eating it is not a selling point. I won’t say they are awful, but they aren’t that good either. It’s just very bland.

I’ll stick with a butterball or Jennie o raised in a barn if I want to enjoy eating one.
 
B and P Heavy Pheasant is a dynamite load thru my 20ga SxS. Anchors the roosters with the first barrel. My first choice is my hand loads, but this cartridge is a good one. Expect more retrieves. Buy a case when you can.
 
I/C in the bottom barrel and M in the top but I will be putting the I/M in the top before I go out again.
 
birddude said:
I totally agree, but if I can only go to pheasant land once or twice a year, I'm not turning down a 40 yard shot. Learned my lessons years ago with sub gauges and or open chokes. Next year, invite me up there and I'll bring my 28. :ROFLMAO:
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4.10? Recurve bow? Sling shot?
 
westksbowhunter said:
Me too with the Briley's. I order a LM and a M for every gun I buy. Do you shim for a certain pattern like 60/40, 50/50, etc? I seem to have the best results killing birds dead with a 60/40.
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I can’t shim my gun, would have to cut an angle on the stock which i won’t do. I do believe it would help to have a little pitch on there, as when I miss pretty certain I am under.
 
Chessie 67 said:
I can’t shim my gun, would have to cut an angle on the stock which i won’t do. I do believe it would help to have a little pitch on there, as when I miss pretty certain I am under.
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You might try raising your comb to move your eye up.

The easy/cheap experiment is with a roll of Dr. Scholl's moleskin at roughly $10. You can just layer it until you get the height you want.

Measure that and then there are decent stick-on pads of different thickness that last basically forever like the Beretta silicone pad.

KICK-EEZ makes some Cheek-EEZ pads too for about $20-25. They have 4 thicknesses starting at 1/16" and adding a 1/16" from there to 1/4".

KICK-EEZ Cheek-EEZ

Should be able to dial it in a little better with some experimentation.
 
benelli-banger said:
Maybe for some…I’d take any other choke option before I’d choose full choke for pheasant hunting…using IC today…flushes have been fairly close, holding reasonably tight…
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Every manufacturer idea of IC, M, F, etc is different. .015 is generally the best all around but I like the way .012 which is a LM from Briley patterns the best. Benelli, Browning, etc factory tubes are allover the place in tolerences. Retay does put in a good tube from Tru-lok I believe.

Goose here is a video you should watch or anyone else with a new Browning A5.
 
When I was in high school I bought a 11-48 12 gauge with an imp.cyl. barrel. I loved that gun. I was killing everything from geese to spatsies with ease. Then I patterned it and discovered it had some big holes in the pattern. My confidence tumbled, I started second guessing my yardage, started missing and crippling birds. I wound up trading it off. Our mind is a strange thing... Got to love that Randy Wakeman though!!
 
I have 4-5 double guns choked skt1/skt2….really like that combo! But I like skt/IC…very similar. Michael Mcintosh believed with modern guns and ammo that very little constriction is needed…I’m much more in that camp than the extremely tightly choked option…
 
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