Hunting Forum

Git yur butt bak to shop and make sum calls!!

I have been using a very old Savage over and under 410-22 mag. and it has yet to fail me. I love turkey hunting and so dose my wife. She also hunts with a 410 pump.Some of my freinds thik I am crazy but it works for us. Use what fits you and enjoy the hunt.

If you can hit a softball at 35 yards , what damm difference does it make???

If you want an all around shotgun, you want screw-in choke tubes and camo. You want one that can shoot 3" shells and preferably 3 1/2". My Mossberg 500 was a good deal when I bought it. The choke tubes are standard Winchoke.

Don't know how close you were to your grandpa or if you hunted turkeys with him or if he hunted turkeys with it, but there is something to be said about taking the old man's gun into the woods to hunt turkey in honor of him. I have several shotguns, but when I go upland bird hunting, I usually take the double barrel that my Dad passed down to me. I have many fond memories tromping thru the grouse woods and cornfields for pheasant with my Dad. So that’s the gun I take in his memory. Use his old deer rifle fairly often to even though I have a couple others that I bought before he died and it was passed to me.

Something to think about before running off and getting a new gun. Of course, you can never own to many guns, so if I guess one excuse is as good as another.

jack

You know, the notion of  replacable chokes in varying degrees (IC, mod, full, x full, etc...) is fairly new. At one time not too long ago, MAYBE even in TiT's time, there was 2 choices...Choked or Not Choked. The closest thing to a full choke was a Long Tom Goose Gun with a barrel around 36 inches. MOST Choked guns were Modified at best a few made it towrds full and a few not quite to Modified, but they were choked. 2 3/4 inch was THE shell size for 12 gauge. That all said, them old time hunters ALMOST wiped out the wild turkey in this country with those scatter guns that MOST hunters would not even THINK about taking to the woods.
Point is...Do you NEED 3 1/2 inch shells??? No, they'll hurt YOU and the game more but NO you don't NEED them. Do you NEED treplacable Chokes??? NOPE again...But you DO NEED to learn to hunt them right. and what about all those gadgets and thingamabobs???? NAH....not really. Think about what our forefathers hunted with and how...You MIGHT be surprised at the answers you come up with.

 

Had a model 12 (my only shotgun at time) that a dime wouldn't even hardly start in barrel, wearing a red flannel shirt, blue jeans, Roebucks boots and a John Deere cap when I kilt my first one....call was a piece of slate I picked up from creek edge and striker was a hickory limb that GrandDad whittled down......I invented fire the next day.....