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Share your pictures! I put together a dedicated turkey gun, one of many, but the only one I still have! It's a Winchester 1300, for 2 3/4" shells, with a 18" rifle sight barrel with win-choke for screw in choke tubes. I added a Hogue forearm, Blackhawk adjustable stock and a Bushnell Trophy red dot. I load "magnum" 2 3/4" shells using 1 1/4 oz. nickle plated #5's. Patterns great at 40 yards, farthest I've ever patterned it. I hunt in central Wisconsin in some pretty big woods with some smaller fields. The combo of this gun and my loads have never let me down. Call them in close and take care of business! This year I've been invited out to Pennsylvania for turkey hunting and got drawn for Wisconsin. Looking forward to a busy turkey hunting spring! Best to all fellow turkey hunters going out this spring. Dean

mossberg 835 tactical turkey. True glo gobble dot.

Indian Creek choke tube.675

mossberg 935, truth glo gobble dot. Indian creek.675

federal #6

I've given up on 12ga. 3 1/2" shotguns and turkey shells! LOL! I've had Benelli SBE's and Nova's, Mossberg 835's, Remington 3 1/2" 870's and Browning 3 1/2" BPS's. For a long time I used an old muzzleloading double barrel 10ga., I'm too old now for those thumpers. The Knoxx Blackhawk stock on the 1300 has a recoil reduction system in it that works great. But I love turkey hunting and turkey guns and am super happy I can still get after them!

that 835 is the handiest gun I have, it's also the worst kicking gun I e ever shot.


this year I may tote my Browning Gold lite 10. that's the softest shooting big gun I've ever fired

Benelli SBE2 26"
Indian Creek Choke
3-inch #6's
Truglo Turkey/Deer Sights

Latest build................ H&R 168 20 gauge, 25 1/2" barrel, 5" forcing cone, Sumtoy choke, Burris 135 on a Weaver rail....



Others...........

Win SX3 3 1/2" 12ga 28" barrel through an Indian Creek tube. Weaver red/green dot on top

Win SX2 3 1/2" 12ga 26" barrel through a Comp-N-Choke XXX-Full tube. BSA 30m red dot on top

BPS 10ga barrel shortened to 23" through a Comp-N-Choke XXX-Full tube. Light-N-sights fiber optic ghostring and front bead

NEF Pardner Youth NWTF 3" 20ga. (younger daughter's gun)

Rem 870 Turkey 3" 12ga 21" barrel through a XXX-Full Comp-N-Choke tube BSA 30mmred dot on a B-Square saddle mount

Forgot to mention, I tricked out a Remington SP-10 for turkey hunting. Finally got tired of carrying around a 10 pound shotgun! Used to hunt spring turkey in 5 states, all eastern gobblers, never got out west or down south.

BPS 10 bore. XX Comp-N-Choke Remington #4s, either Premiers or Nitro Mags.

Used to shoot the 2 1/4 oz. Winchester #5s until they screwed the pooch and quit making the heavy 10 gauge loads. Never patterned a better load, from this gun or any 3.5 12 gauge.

Never counted a 10" circle with those 5s but over 40 pellets in the head/neck region of those X-Ray targets, 40 steps.

One heavy sum bitsch but holds nice and steady.

Gold 3" NWTF, 24" barrel. Star Dot tube, Williams Fire sight. #5 Long Beards run mid 160s in 10" but few in 20".

Federal Turkey Thug 6s run about the same but fill in the 20" circle. #5 Turkey Thugs, mid 150s.

Gun was picky as all get out. I tried 2 different Colonial tubes, SSX, original Jellyhead, Undertaker, Hastings .685 and Jellyhead Max. None of the above would break 100 with 6 different loads. Just about gave up and traded for a 26-28" gun.

Benelli M1S90, Indian Creek choke, Hevi13 3-2-6...

Mr. Claymore------ 20ga.NEF--Mossberg full choke, Federal hwt #7
50 yd. killer. Custom sling and Camo paint from McKie Hollow LLC custom shop

Remington 870 12 ga Express Super Magnum
Undertaker .665 choke
Tru-Glo sights
Winchester Supreme 3" 1300 fps 1 3/4 #5 shot.

Remington 870 20 gauge # 9 TSS. Dipped in bottomland camo.

Currently it's a $300 youth 870 in 20 gauge that I replaced the butt with an adult sized one, in black plastic.

Just a bead up front, no camo, some kind of $20 choke.






Prior to that it was a $179 Mossberg 500 in 12 gauge, no optics, factory xtra full choke.

I am not a real dedicated turkey hunter... No scopes on my shotguns or camo.. But this 97 12ga. did a great job on the last gobbler I shot with a shotgun..

I killed my first bird with a Model 97.

My turkey gun is a 1996 Mossberg Viking pulled out of a scratch-'n-dent bin at Dicks. My feeling about turkey guns is this is one time a premium gun is ill-advised and it is better to have something that works over something that's pretty.

About a decade ago, all the camo started coming off, so I stripped it back and used spray paint to recoat the gun. Here is the finished job:


Here's the story of how I painted it:

Bubba Paints His Turkey Gun

Since then, I've had a bunch of folks ask me to do their guns, and folks wrote into me at T&TH to show their guns off. The nice thing about spray painting a shotgun is that if it gets scratched up, all you have to do is re-spray.

I have a 1.5.-4.5X BSA shotgun scope mounted. I have bad eyes and can't see a bead anymore. The rig is good past 40 yards on gobblers with 3 inch lead #4 Federals. However, most of my shots have been taken inside 20 yards. It's got a 28-inch ported barrel and a Carlson's Dead Coyote choke.

870 Youth 20 with Truglo Red Dot.

I've been using my 20s mostly the last few years:

Youth 870 20ga with Patriot Brown Cerakote, FF2 on 336 mount, and Rem SF choke:


Win SXP 20ga with Nikon Monarch 1.5-4.5x20 and Primos TW .570:


Weatherby 459 20ga with FF2 on Pic mount and Wby .575 choke: