Beretta 1301 comp pro - do it all work horse? Yay or nay?

metcalfr said:
She finally arrived. I purchased it from Tenda Canada. After purchasing it, it went on sale for black Friday. I emailed them and they honored the new price and knocked 300 dollars off the price as advertised. I think that for now I will purchase an Airdus industries universal Quick detach carrier and the Vortex Viper multi reticle scope. Later on down the road, I may pick up a longer barrel. I don't plan on ever requiring another shotgun. I will also pick up a good turkey choke or something else that will give me a nice tight pattern for partridge. Thanks again everyone. I am loving all of the suggestions and comments. It gives me more ideas to research.
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What bbl lenght did you choose?
 
metcalfr said:
She finally arrived. I purchased it from Tenda Canada. After purchasing it, it went on sale for black Friday. I emailed them and they honored the new price and knocked 300 dollars off the price as advertised. I think that for now I will purchase an Airdus industries universal Quick detach carrier and the Vortex Viper multi reticle scope. Later on down the road, I may pick up a longer barrel. I don't plan on ever requiring another shotgun. I will also pick up a good turkey choke or something else that will give me a nice tight pattern for partridge. Thanks again everyone. I am loving all of the suggestions and comments. It gives me more ideas to research.
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Awesome! Enjoy it!
 
metcalfr said:
She finally arrived. I purchased it from Tenda Canada. After purchasing it, it went on sale for black Friday. I emailed them and they honored the new price and knocked 300 dollars off the price as advertised. I think that for now I will purchase an Airdus industries universal Quick detach carrier and the Vortex Viper multi reticle scope. Later on down the road, I may pick up a longer barrel. I don't plan on ever requiring another shotgun. I will also pick up a good turkey choke or something else that will give me a nice tight pattern for partridge. Thanks again everyone. I am loving all of the suggestions and comments. It gives me more ideas to research.
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Turkey choke might not be the best choke for partridge if you plan on eating them. Unless you're taking extremely far shots. Turkey chokes are designed to give a tight dense pattern to hit the head or neck of a Turkey which is well above the breast meat.
 
brybenn said:
Turkey choke might not be the best choke for partridge if you plan on eating them. Unless you're taking extremely far shots. Turkey chokes are designed to give a tight dense pattern to hit the head or neck of a Turkey which is well above the breast meat.
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If ground swatting grouse, head shots with a tight choke ruin far less meat than center mass shots using IC.
 
stubblejumper said:
If ground swatting grouse, head shots with a tight choke ruin far less meat than center mass shots using IC.
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I've tried to test that theory by shooting printed out targets. At 15 yards and 10 shots each from cyl-ic-mod-im-full-turkey ic proved the effective. Even when holding high with a custom card cutter choke and using an optic my printout of the grouse was almost always a miss or a mess.
Ic and mod are what I use for flushing grouse and wing shooting them and I've never messed up much edible parts. I wouldn't use full or xf for those shots

I know its always repeated that hunters can spit 275 pellets over 20 yards and hit just the head of grouse everytime without a pellet in the meat but I can not. I can do it with a scope rifle mostly every time though

#6 copperplated pellets i find zip right thru the bird completely and pull less feathers into the wound than cheap bare lead shot


Just my thoughts. Ill always prefer to wing shoot grouse but sometimes they're to stupid to fly and to tasty to pass up
 
brybenn said:
I've tried to test that theory by shooting printed out targets. At 15 yards and 10 shots each from cyl-ic-mod-im-full-turkey ic proved the effective. Even when holding high with a custom card cutter choke and using an optic my printout of the grouse was almost always a miss or a mess.
Ic and mod are what I use for flushing grouse and wing shooting them and I've never messed up much edible parts. I wouldn't use full or xf for those shots

I know its always repeated that hunters can spit 275 pellets over 20 yards and hit just the head of grouse everytime without a pellet in the meat but I can not. I can do it with a scope rifle mostly every time though

#6 copperplated pellets i find zip right thru the bird completely and pull less feathers into the wound than cheap bare lead shot


Just my thoughts. Ill always prefer to wing shoot grouse but sometimes they're to stupid to fly and to tasty to pass up
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I haven;t ground swatted grouse in decades, but when I did, it was at first with a 410, and then with a 12 gauge, but both shotguns had fixed full chokes. I used headshots with both, and never had any issues. These days, I use nickel plated #6 shot exclusively for my upland bird hunting, whether using my 28 gauge or 16 gauge SxS.
 
I just got over 40lbs of ballistic products nickel plated shot in various sizes to use. Can't see it being much different than the copper plated but it'll look good in my rolled 2.5" loads
 
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