My go to turkey rig is a 870 chopped to 18 threaded for remchokes. Set of clamp on rifle style fiber optics on the rib. I was thinking the XS for house duties but thought it was too big. Perfect world I would of put a small reddot on it. But this gun was more about price than function. Was a plain 870 express no option to mount a reddot without added expense.
For turkey duty the rifle sights work great. Have not worried about velocity loss. If there is some the turkeys don't seem to notice. I cannot even begin to count the number of birds this gun has dropped. Taken birds cleanly out to 65 yards with 3" hevishot. Their original turkey loads that were not too fast to begin with.
