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Post by 3ptbuck on Apr 9, 2013 14:49:57 GMT -5
Who uses a scope on their turkey gun? I've had a Simmons NWTF Pro-diamond laying around for years and just decided today to put it on my 870 for a season. I remembered why I hadn't used it after about the third of 6 turkey loads I put through it. Ready to give it a try this weekend!
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Post by woodmaster on Apr 9, 2013 16:23:45 GMT -5
I've used a scope on my 870 as long as I can remember. I love it.
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Post by GS1 on Apr 9, 2013 17:40:00 GMT -5
I have a Holosight on mine and have for about 8 years. It started acting up last season, so I thought about replacing it with a Burris Fastfire III for this season. Then I started reading of several people that are having trouble with them keeping zero. Think I'll hold off one more year and let Burris figure out the problem.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 17:53:24 GMT -5
I see a scope on a turkey gun as a potential deal breaker. First, I don't need a scope to make a 30 or 40 yard shot. Second, a lot of spring mornings are rainy, cool, damp, and just downright hazardous to scope glass. Third, it is just one more thing that can fail. If I don't have a scope, I don't need to worry if it's still zeroed in. I've been known to do an occasional belly-crawl stalk on a big ol' Tom (I've killed two in that fashion). I wouldn't have wanted to try that while worrying about protecting my scope. I scope my rifled 870 deer slug gun, but my 11-87 turkey gun shall remain scope free.
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Post by Decatur on Apr 9, 2013 18:16:12 GMT -5
I've used a scope on my 870 as long as I can remember. I love it. !
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Apr 9, 2013 18:55:16 GMT -5
I see a scope on a turkey gun as a potential deal breaker. First, I don't need a scope to make a 30 or 40 yard shot. Second, a lot of spring mornings are rainy, cool, damp, and just downright hazardous to scope glass. Third, it is just one more thing that can fail. If I don't have a scope, I don't need to worry if it's still zeroed in. I've been known to do an occasional belly-crawl stalk on a big ol' Tom (I've killed two in that fashion). I wouldn't have wanted to try that while worrying about protecting my scope. I scope my rifled 870 deer slug gun, but my 11-87 turkey gun shall remain scope free. I tried a scope, dont like the fact you have to raise your cheek off the stock to look throught it. Dont like guessing if its zeroed in still. Dont like anything with a battery, it will fail. Plus scopes are just one more thing in the way. One big thing, is the dreaded scope eye.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 18:58:37 GMT -5
A scope makes you aim the shotgun, instead of pointing it as you normally do in other shotgun shooting activities. It gives you a precise aiming point and a bit of magnification, which helps on early and late birds. I'd say guys with sights of some sort miss and wound less than guys without them. It does take a rugged scope and mount to hold up under 3.5" recoil, especially on the pump and inertia auto's
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Post by GS1 on Apr 9, 2013 19:45:34 GMT -5
I can't see the difference between carrying an 870 with a scope for deer and an 870 with a scope for turkey? Like timex said, I can put the dot on a turkeys eyeball at 40 yards. How many fiber optic sights are small enough that they don't cover up most/all of a turkeys head at that range? My brother has a cheaper re dot on an 835. Somehow it is holding up. Don't know how.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 19:52:50 GMT -5
Main difference for me is spelled out in my post above. I have been known to get pretty mobile while turkey hunting. In nearly all deer hunting situations I am sitting tight. Pretty easy to mess up a scope if you are crawling on the ground or moving to set up in a brush pile. If I was hunting in a ground blind, I could see having a scope.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 20:23:44 GMT -5
any scope that I would buy would be sturdy enough to make the crawl. They will hold up for a strenous hunt in the mountains or a float hunt in Alaska during the course they get many bumps and shakes. Put a strap on the your gun and put it on your back if you have to crawl.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 9, 2013 20:29:00 GMT -5
My 870 turkey set up is scoped with a Simmons 2X Pro-Diamond.
I've killed a few dozen birds so far and have never missed or wounded a bird yet. That is from 12 yards to 52 yards..
A scope removes a lot of the room for errors...
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Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2013 20:55:55 GMT -5
I've only killed 11 turkeys total, but I am 100% on kill rate. One of my belly crawl birds was 62 yards (I thought I was closer till I stepped it off). That bird flew to the top of a big oak, I thought I had missed at first, but when I ran after it to see about a possible follow up shot, should it have been wounded, it flopped out of that tree and dropped about 75 feet to the ground with a thud. I only got a handful of pellets in him, but it did the trick (had I realized it was that far a shot, I would have passed, but after about a 50 yard belly-crawl, I suppose the adrenaline got the better of me...worked out anyway) But with a little more age creeping up on me, I am noticing the old peepers are not what they used to be. I may end up changing my tune about a scoped turkey gun one of these days.
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Post by dbd870 on Apr 10, 2013 4:26:03 GMT -5
I have Firesights on mine - however I'm afraid the day is coming when even those may not work for me anymore; staying with them this season, not sure how many more I can go though.
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Post by elmo on Apr 10, 2013 5:51:43 GMT -5
My 870 has a scope on it, but I aim through the peep under it and use the sight on the front of the barrel. I sight it in with both so I have the option, but haven't used the scope yet. I also don't shoot past 40 yards, usually 30 to 35.
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Post by 3ptbuck on Apr 10, 2013 6:26:35 GMT -5
My 870 turkey set up is scoped with a Simmons 2X Pro-Diamond. I've killed a few dozen birds so far and have never missed or wounded a bird yet. That is from 12 yards to 52 yards.. A scope removes a lot of the room for errors... Was your point of aim different with those different distances? I sighted mine in at 38 yds yesterday but I started to wonder what kind of drop a turkey load has. I plan on shooting a couple more at different yardages later today. That gun has dropped birds from 15-50yds just using the front bead and never compensated for distance, maybe I've just gotten lucky…
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2013 6:34:35 GMT -5
I would not think that the point of aim would change from 30 to 50 or 60 yards. The thing you would have to worry about would not so much be drop but rather the increased spread of the shot pattern at the further distance, IMO.
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Post by throbak on Apr 10, 2013 6:53:43 GMT -5
When I started having problems getting every thing in focus I went to a pro Diamond also everythings alright now all my shots are kept at 30 or under so no drop considered in shooting
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Post by sakorifle on Apr 10, 2013 8:34:28 GMT -5
i put a red dot on my browning automatic to go clay shooting for a laugh one day, Yes i could hit them no problem much to my surprise, no one else could though, i put it down to getting onto the clay fast because i am that used to putting a scope on a target it was no problem to me. It got some laughs. And caused some debate. regards Billy
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Post by schall53 on Apr 10, 2013 10:33:36 GMT -5
My BPS 10ga has a Simmons Pro diamond scope on it. She has over 30 birds to her credit without a problem.
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Post by 409bullelk on Apr 10, 2013 11:55:26 GMT -5
I have a Burris Fast Fire II on my Benelli custom shop. It has 7 long beards, a coyote, plus 6 practice rounds through it and the red dot has not moved. (Knock on wood) seems to hold up well with a 3 1/2 shell bouncing it around.
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