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I am looking into making my shotgun into a dedicated turkey gun and am confused with the many choices available. The gun is a Winchester 1300 with the factory chokes. With so many choices ranging from $20-$100+, it is hard to know what to do. Any good reviews or recommendations?

hard to beat a pure gold choke, if you do not like it for any reason send it back and they will refund your money minus shipping

Pure Gold or Indian Creek are on the top of the list.

Indian Creek

Same dilemma my son was in a year ago with his 1300. I told him, start inexpensively, and work up(if you have to).

He purchased an HS Strut Undertaker choke on Gunbroker, .665 constriction, for like $12, shipped.

I told him before he went out and bought any shells, try Federal 2 3/4 inch babymags in #5(which I had a bunch of), bought on sale for $3.99 for a box of 10.

When he came home from patterning the gun, he asked me if I had anymore of those shells. I laughed and asked him why. He said he could consistently put 16-18 pellets in the birds head/neck at 60 yards, and didn't need to pattern anything else, LOL.

He took a gobbler this morning with that outfit, I have no idea as to distance, etc. yet, all I know is he called on the cell and told me he got a good bird, hopefully I'll have some pics later and make a post on it.

The Indian Creek BDS would be a good place to start. You can buy them from Midsouth Shooters Supply.

If it doesn't pattern great, IC will swap you for a diff choke.

I would suggest the H13 3" 2oz #6 load.

Good Luck

Reloader

I like the Trulock chokes, one can order factory direct. I have a 'Precision Hunter' in .680 for a Browning Gold/BPS & a .670 for a Benelli M2. The Gold has a 'back bored' barrel & both chokes are more open than the tightest. The reason is I got them mostly for 'T' shot, & some BB & #4 buckshot. They work well with the #6 Hevi-Shot I use for turkeys. Depending on your barrel & intended shot, the tightest isn't always the best choice.

You need to pick a shot size, and weather it is hevi or copperplated shot. Not all chokes will pattern optimal with all shot sizes. I shoot copperplated #6 from a Remington 870 Supermag. I use a Rhino .660" with Winchester Supreme 2 oz Hi-Velocity #6. Number 4`s will shoot their highest percentage with a .670". It do make a difference.

Dedicated turkey gun... That would be easy for me, a .665" Indian Creek Black Diamond Strike with bronze Hevi-13 3-2-6 (.12 gauge 3" - 2 ounces - #6 shot) seems to be the most likely recipe to get a turkey killer on the first try without a slew of patterning and fooling around. The measuring stick and benchmark generally is accepted to be to count the number of pellet strikes within a 10" circle at an honest 40 yards. Numbers over 80 - 100 pellets with lead is pretty good. The IC-BDS/H13 3-2-6 combo often gives 150 - 200+ pellets.

i have had good luck with kicks chokes have a .660 and .670 for 835 does far better then factory turkey choke (run #6 win h.v. and 2 1/4 oz. loads both and use .655 in 500& 9200 with a good improvement over factory as well but have not yet tried an indian creek but would like too

I use 3 different chokes for our turkey guns! One being an H.S. Strut, 2nd is a Carlson's choke and the last is a Ballistics Special from Ballistics Specialists in Arkansas. Those boys do great work on shotguns trust me.

There are as many chokes as there are loads. I have had the best luck with Primos Jelly Head. They should run +/- $50

I do some guiding and get in on between 6-10 turkey killings a year. Most of my hunters use my Browning 3.5 inch auto. The choke that has performed the best for me is a cheapy Star Dot that you used to buy at Walmart. I paid $5 for mine and it will kill turkeys reliably to 60 yards with a 2 oz load of Federal 4's. When I have kids, which is a couple times a year, I use a 1 1/4 ounce Federal high brass with 5 shot. Just 2 weeks ago my youth hunter shot his tom at 46 lasered yards. I haven't let them shoot any farther than that, but would think 50 is doable. One thing with the Star Dot, you better be aiming, it's that tight. Had my hunter miss at 30 yards this week wednesday, he killed one friday though at 45.

For a while I had a 1300XTR that I used a Hastings .645 and it was devastating with Winchester Supremes in 4, 5 or 6 shot, don't remember how many ozs been a few years. Only thing is it hit low, had to cover the birds head with the bead. After market adjustable sight fixed that.

Thank you all for the replies. As fortune (and misfortune) would have it, my local Sportsmans warehouse is going out of business and over the last two weeks, I have been able to pick up a Kicks, a Briley, and an HS Strut undertaker for next to nothing (about $35 total for all 3). Now the fun starts, as I pattern the shot, etc. Again, many thanks.