turkey choke + buck shot?

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hello got my first shotgun normaly choose a rifle looking forword to the hunt this year was going to use slugs was thinking of patterning buckshot and if it was a good idea for a turkey choke i know you can't use steel shot for it was thinking about buckshot tho. also not looking for long range shots am i better to go with a red dot or scope.
thanks in advance if this was already addressed please forword the link.

Brian
 
safetyalwaysfirst said:
hello got my first shotgun normaly choose a rifle looking forword to the hunt this year was going to use slugs was thinking of patterning buckshot and if it was a good idea for a turkey choke i know you can't use steel shot for it was thinking about buckshot tho. also not looking for long range shots am i better to go with a red dot or scope.
thanks in advance if this was already addressed please forword the link.

Brian
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Give the animal the respect it deserves and use slugs.
 
Buckshot can be very lethal in the hands of a skilled shooter but for the average person planning for an ethical hunt I think slugs are the way to go. Everything depends on the circumstances though.
 
alright thanks i was planning on useing a mod tube and only going to about 25-40 yards and planning on grouping the gun but as you said might stick with a slug for the first year. it wouldn't be good feeling chasing a wounded animal for hours and loosing a trail. never happend to me hope it never does accu-tip it is.
 
My suggestion would be to try your gun with a varity of more open chokes with the slugs you will be useing .you will find that the slug your useing will have a preference for a peticular choke. ie group better
 
Don't be too hasty to give up on buckshot, with in 50 yards if you find a good load of 000 or 00 buck that you gun patterns well its a devastating combination on deer.
If someone in Canada would start importating the dixie tri-ball buckshot loads from the states then there would be little doubt in buckshots effectiveness even out to 70 yards.
 
I have both a rifled shotgun and a smoothbore. Using the Challenger slugs, my smoothbore will make a single ragged hole a 50 yds. More than enough for any hunting I do. I shot one deer at 78 paces with a Challenger. Hit about 2 inches low from where I was aiming, and dropped him in his tracks. As to using a turkey choke with buck, I don't know if it would hurt the gun, but it may hurt the shooter - turkey chokes really crank up the recoil.
 
i was also reading up on this after the question and the tighter choke may compress the lead shot coming out and and mess with the pattern because it could deform the lead shot. i saw this was on the shotgun forums as well can any one adress my other question on a coast effective scope or should i go with a red dot?
thanks again
 
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