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Greenmtnboy

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well thanks to all the help I got from CoyoteJoe bending my barrel and gug choking my fowler I am happy to say turkey huntin' this weeking was a total sucess.
And thanks everybody for all the loading info.
tukey photos in pics forum :hatsoff:
 
Congrats on the tom. What did you use to get him? What was your load? Info guy, info. :grin: And i have been thinking about bending a barrel, but around a tree. :grin:
 
Rebel said:
Congrats on the tom. What did you use to get him? What was your load? Info guy, info. :grin: And i have been thinking about bending a barrel, but around a tree. :grin:

:rotf: or somones head?
ok lets see it's a 62bore using 100grns of ffg goex, ounce and a quarter of # 6shot
most of the shot centered in his head with a few fliers
 
Ok, that answers part of it. What kind of .62 smoothbore? I have a .62 smoothbore too that i am trying to work up a turkey load for. Is it a cylinder bore?
 
Rebel, we just used a wheel cylinder hone in the drill press, spent about an hour on it. I don't have a shotgun bore mic but near as I could judge by feel of caliper the jug is about .005". That was enough to round up the pattern and shows considerable "central thickening". My own 28 gauge with the same choke cut the same way puts 75-80% of one ounce of sixes in the 30" circle at 25 yards, with about 50% in a 21" circle. Now understand, that is 25 yards, not the "standard" 40 yards. Next time out I will shoot some patterns at 40 but for now I'd speculate it will go between 50 and 60 percent which equates to between improved cylinder and modified. My 28 gauge is only a 30" barrel and didn't pattern well in it's original cylinder bore configuration. The slight jug choke made a world of difference. I think Greenmtnboy only patterned his 42" TVM fowler on turkey head targets so we don't know pattern percentages but the jug certainly put more pellets into the head.
 
Thanks for the info Joe. I would like to impprove my shot patterns but really hate to take a chance on messing up the kind of accuracy i am getting with rd balls. Have you tried rd balls out of them after jug choking? Do they shoot about the same as before?
 
Rebel said:
Thanks for the info Joe. I would like to impprove my shot patterns but really hate to take a chance on messing up the kind of accuracy i am getting with rd balls. Have you tried rd balls out of them after jug choking? Do they shoot about the same as before?

FWIW, I tried only a half dozen in my jug choked .62cal after finishing pattern tests a couple weeks ago...it was only 25yds and I only tried one load combination, but sitting in a chair with elbow rested on chest the holes were cutting / touching each other:
80grns Goes 2F
.62cal Oxyoke wonderwad
.015" Oxyoke prelubed patch
TOW (Rush Creek) .595" balls
 
Thanks fot the info on the rd balls Roundball. I am still thinking about having mine jug choked, but really would hate to mess up the rd ball accuracy. Decisions, decisions. :grin:
 
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