Nice pic John...getting the feeling that a “you’re a smart @ss” is in order....LOLI just wanted to share this picture that I got this week from my trailcam.
Thought maybe you were poking me in the ribs a lil but it’s apparently my own failure jabbing at me...LOL!!Nope, Just thought it was fitting for the earlier pic of the pro turkey hunter.
It would seem that if I am deer hunting, I will see a lot of turkeys and no deer at all.
If I'm turkey hunting, I see a lot of deer and won't even hear a gobble or cluck the whole weekend.
So, I have gotten wiser in my older years and if I am wanting to kill a turkey, I tell everyone that I know that I'm going deer hunting before I leave the house.
The Primos Tightwad is my first choke that didn’t come with the gun. I thought about going with a full rather than extra full and wasn’t hung up on specialty or non, I just hope this patterns well. It seemed to get good reviews when mated to an 870 12ga...not so great for Benelli’s and some of the Mossies. So I hope I’ve made a good choice. However, it’s ordered from Cabelas and if it’s defective in any way I’ll just return it for something else.I've worked on it quite a bit to get to this point. I had borrowed a Truglo strut stopper choke from RipJack. It patterned the tightest with any load I tried. Sadly, that choke isn’t made anymore and I don’t know why, but it set the bar and was what I compared everything else to.
I’m using an 835, the Truglo has an exit diameter of .670 and my Carlson’s is .675. I was disappointed a lot trying to get a pattern that might allow me to get that Tom that wouldn’t step out of the tree line. After two years, I didn’t see that Tom again and worse, I haven’t seen turkeys on my property the last two spring seasons at all.
In any case, it was a journey to get to this point and honestly, I fell for a lot of hype with choke tubes at first, including Carlson’s. I’ve found their specialty choke tubes to pattern worse for me than their regular line, in this case the extended ported choke.