There is a chance I replied to this thread a decade ago, but I'm not going to read 16 pages to find out so this may be a repeat.
An 870 Super mag firing a 3 1/2" turkey load. If that is what I need to kill a turkey with, I don't want to hunt turkey.
WAAAAAY back in 1976 I picked up one of the recently re-introduced Marlin 1895's used. This version was only made one year so not many have seen it. That version had a straight grip with the 22" barrel and 1/2 mag tube. The front sight was in a dovetail instead of a ramp and the buttplate was curved and made of hard plastic.
The guy I bought it from gave me a few 500 gr handloads. I was 19 and thought I was tough, but those loads, in that rifle, nearly made me cry.
Most people don't really want the truth.
They just want constant reassurance that what they believe is the truth.
