Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting Bought a new turkey gun

I'm continuing my sell off of stuff I don't use, and reinvesting the money back into the hobby. My upstairs is starting to get a lot lighter. Let go of another Winchester Model 70 Super Grade. As pretty as it was, it was ungodly heavy and I just no longer had plans to hunt with it. So, after owning and enjoying it for quite awhile, I let it go. It more than funded a gun I will hunt with. A new Winchester SX4 Waterfowl, 12 gauge, 3 1/2", 26" barrel. I promptly installed a new Carlsons extended turkey choke, .665. It's my third SX4. I really like them. Simple, no frills, semiautos.





It can pull double duty on deer. But I think it will be part of my Mossy Oak Bottomland trifecta of Browning/Winchester shotguns I mostly just use for turkeys.

I’m trying to do the same, but the market here is sloooowwwwwww. Nary a nibble, either in the Valley Trader or the local shop on consignment.

So, I’m investing anyway, and the pile keeps getting bigger.😱

Where are the SX4s made?

Sweet Georgia Brown, you have a stack of fine looking scatterguns there.

The SX4 is made by Browning in their factory in Viana, Portugal. Same factory that produces their Maxus and A5 guns, as well as the current Winchester Model 70.

The SX series guns are ALL fine pieces of equipment !!!

CONGRATS on a great pickup !!!

P.S. The Indian Creek Black Diamond Strike tube and a 3.5" Winchester Longbeard XR shotshell is a DEADLY combo in the SX guns.

Very nice. I like Sx4 when I fondle.. I mean hold them.

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It's OK Dinger. You can let it out. We all have our little shotgun quirks.

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It's nice to see that they have a left handed model.

I know... Thats part of why I feel guilty why I want an new shotgun when I have three dedicatd now and two good candidates in the wings.

Why can't I just love the one I'm with.


Having said that.. I think I'm going to check out a SX4.

You NEED an SX4.

BTW, the SX4 "Universal Hunter" is drilled and tapped for a scope base. The others are not.

Sweet ! Nice looking shotgun.
Good luck selling stuff, I try but end up putting it back in the keeper pile.

I bought toilet paper today. I don't buy toilet paper as often as you buy a new turkey gun so I thought it noteworthy.

It's not noteworthy. I don't buy toilet paper as frequently as a I acquire, or sell, a gun. And I haven't mentioned that once.

To me, except for a few inherited guns I will never part with, guns, to me, are like trading cards. They come and go. Not that you asked, or that anyone deserves an explanation, but I will say for every gun I've posted, there is generally one that went. I also recently sold a boat I got tired of and put those funds back into my hobbies. The trick to accumulating a good collection is that when you sell a gun, or any outdoor sports stuff, you never put the proceeds back into the general household funds - unless of course there is an emergency. I always reinvest the proceeds of a sale back into my hobby. If you don't do that, it's often times lost forever.

I did the same when I was a kid. Buy, sell, trade all the time. Eventually I learned to hold onto the good ones and never let them go. At this time all of my guns are worth substantially more than I paid for them, some several times the original purchase price and all of my deer rifles have more than paid for themselves in pounds of venison harvested.

I've got plenty I won't let go and will pass on to my son. My grandfather's Mannlicher–Schönauer, my great grandfather's Marlin take-down 1893 .30-30, my granduncle's Arisaka that came home with him from the Philippines, my father-in-law's Model 94, and several others. I've got a few I've bought that won't go. My BLRs, my Wichester levers, my Ithacas, my Sako, my Sig P-series handguns, my Ruger revolvers, and some of my Browning shotguns. But if I don't love them, they are liable to be sold or traded. Some I've just wanted to own and shoot, and now that I have, I have no compunction about letting them go.

It's the way it is with lots of things. Some people collect art, coins, stamps, whatever, as I do with guns. I have some I'll die with. Others won't make it until this time next year.

How do you like the browning Auto 5? I’ve read some poor reviews on them that have kind of turned me off to them.

The A5? Unless the review was by Randy Wakeman, they don't tend to get bad reviews. Randy seems to be a perpetual Browning-hater. My A5 has functioned flawlessly. I've fired the heaviest 3 1/2" shells down to heavy 2 3/4" field loads and have not had a malfuntion. It kicks, no doubt about that. And it goes into battery every time, even easing the bolt forward, so I have never had the so-called "Benelli-click." It is defintiely sprung heavier than a Benelli Super Black Eagle 3. I like the Ivector DS choke system. I have no complaints.