Jstocks, thank you for the offer. We live in Az. I had a friend loan me a 20gauge pump ,that has some weight to it. it has a turkey choke installed
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I won’t be coming by that way. I live in Alabama, and hunt mostly eastern half of the US. If you’d like to learn to load your own shells for her, let me know and I’ll help get you started. You can pm me for contact information.
Your best bet is to get some of the Apex mentioned above or message Brice at Foxtrot and tell him what you need.
For your prescribed need, the light tss load from Apex is really similar or the same as the load that I load my 13 year old to shoot. Easily a 40 yard plus load with 9’s.
I’m kind of surprised at some of the answers given. Recoil really doesn’t have anything to do with gauge of the gun. Much more related to the total shot charge, amount of powder and relation to the weight of the shotgun regardless of gauge. A 3.3 lb yildiz single shot 410 shooting 1 oz loads from Foxtrot is going to be snappy and kick a helluva lot more than a Remington 1187 shooting Kyle smiths original 1 oz load in 20 gauge.
For those who can’t comprehend that, they belong casting their pearls of perceived wisdom around their own table so their kids can learn to chip rocks into wheels. Quit telling the rest of us how much air to run in our tires.
Any one certain gauge doesn’t pattern better than the other.
The 20 gauge actually gives a fairly broad range of turkey loads. I have recipes for 1 oz loads all the way up to 2 1/8 oz loads that I’ve shot or been provided to shoot.
Tss give you the flexibility to load 9’s, which increase the pattern density.