Still looking, but not holding my breathe. Took the 870 410 Turkey out yesterday to do some preliminary sighting in. Peep sight is definitely nice at closer ranges, but my aging eyes need a single focal point.
Went back out this morning after 'robbing' a Tru Glo Micro Dot (Green) off of a seldom used slug gun and changing to the Patternmaster Code Black Turkey choke that came in Thursday's mail. Set up at 10yds and started sighting in using some Fiocchi 2 1/2" #9 lead shells to get in the proximity. Moved to 20yds and finally out to 40yds. After getting to 40, and the pattern with the Fiocchi's well centered, I pulled out the Apex #9.5 TSS. Took a WAG as to roughly how much additional elevation I would need due to the speed/payload difference between the Fiocchi and Apex loads. (1/2oz/1250fps vs 7/8oz/1100fps). With a hope and a prayer, I chamber a $5 Apex round, lined up the green dot on the 40yd target and squeezed the trigger. From 40yds I could see with the naked eye that the wad had penetrated the target well high and right. As I walked down to the target I was hoping that the shot had not followed the same path. Such was not the case. The entire payload of TSS covered my 6" target and then some. It was well centered and had a pretty even distribution. Just to be sure I put up another target and repeated the process. The results were the same. I pulled the second target down, rolled it up and I called it quits.
Hoping to get a chance later tonight and see what the actual pellet count is in a 10" circle centered on the pattern. Apex lists the pellet count in the 7/8oz, #9.5, 410 at around 415. I'll be interested to see what percentage of that falls in the 10" circle on the 2 targets I shot.
BTW: 20*F is not the idea weather for patterning a turkey gun - it was chilly.
