Primos® Turkey Jelly Head Choke Tube for deer???

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Primos® Turkey Jelly Head Choke Tube for deer???

As this is my first deer season I was just thinking on what to do for a choke tube for my Browning 12g Gold Hunter. I have 4 chokes to choose from mod, full, improved, and a Primos Jelly Head turkey choke tube.
I figured since I'm using buck shot that jelly head would work better then others or am I wrong?
 
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Why don't you try a box of foster slugs and shoot at a few pie plates at 50 yards, if you can hit them you are good to shoot a deer with them?

Buck shot is slowly becoming less used as slug technology becomes quite accurate.

Just try it, and if you are curious about your xtra full choke working without blowing the pattern, shoot at a board at 35 yards and see for yourself. No one can tell you if it will work or not, just pattern your gun.
 
Too tight of a choke with buck shot will up set the load so much that it will not pattern at all. If I were you I would test your loads though the IC and Mod and see what one works best. Don't even think about using the turkey choke you may even cause damage there.
 
All of the boxes of 00 and no 4 buck I have say shoot through a full choke. Just pattern your gun and figure out for yourself. That is how you learn!

I very much doubt that lead shot would hurt your choke or barrel.
 
Aries- said:
You need Rifled Slugs for a smothbore shotgun. Sabot slugs for Sabot slugs
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i think he meant sabot slugs for rifled barrels;)

for thick cover where shots are 40 yards or less you cant beat buckshot that patterns well out of your gun. dont use the turkey choke for shooting buckshot. try a couple shots out of each choke to see which choke that load prefers. then switch to another brand and/or size of buckshot and try that. you may get lucky and have tight patterns with the first load you pick, but its unlikely.
 
You have an excellent shotgun.

Put the IC choke tube in it, buy some Winchester Western one-ounce rifled slugs (cheap at about a buck each), test-fire it for accuracy, and go kill a deer.

Under no circumstances should you use your turkey choke for ANYTHING other than turkey loads, PERIOD.

Some people still advocate buckshot for deer. I am not one of them. The debate is endless but in my own personal experience, buckshot wounds a lot of deer that are not recovered, and slugs are real deer killers. I am familiar with the arguments for and against buckshot, don't need to hear them again thanks, just wanted to state my own opinion, based on personal experience. One of the fellows on here whom I respect greatly DOES advocate buckshot in really tight bush for hound-chased deer: we agree to disagree, but his opinion is also based on personal experience.

Doug
 
I shoot remington 3.5 inch buffered buckshot out of my 870 using a hevi-shot extra full choke and it's done it duty several times on deer at close range. Ideally you'd be better with a slug in most situations but in real close quarters shooting buckshot can be lethal. Just remember that deer usually do not bleed with buckshot and can still run for a good distance after a solid hit. Not so bad if you're running dogs which will find the deer but other than that it can cause real problems. Try those slugs out....
 
I agree whole heartedly with Doug's sentiments - as far as I'm concerned there is no place in the woods for buckshot for whitetails.
There isn't a single circumstance that can occur in the woods that a slug won't do the job but buckshot will.
If you should be taking the shot - then a slug will kill the deer. Taking pot shots at streaking deer through dense brush with the hope you might pepper it SOMEWHERE with buck shot is a technique I wish could be outlawed.
If you miss with the slug - oh well, if you hit it with a slug, it will fall down.
Not often so with buckshot - I've now killed two deer in the last four years with my rifle that had previously been shot with buckshot. They were not in good shape but they were not dead!
Do yourself a favour and learn to hit what you're aiming at - then a slug will do just fine.
 
i wonder why thy still make buckshot .a ;lot of people learn there ideas for others with out first hand knowlage .i have shot many deer with buck shot and so have the members of are group .the stuff is deadly out to 50 yards with a GUN THat has been patterned .try your shotgun with the differnt chokes and see what it does donot lust take everybodys word that the stuff is just no good .DUTCH
 
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