Finally shot my gun

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After the new sight fiasco I finally shot and sighted in my new sight / gun combo this afternoon.

Ended up with this pattern at 25 yards.
Works for me.

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I'm with you Ruger. I shot mine yesterday. I'm not into the super high count club but I went from 14 pellets in a propel bottel at 40 yards that killed both my birds last year to 37 in the head/neck of a smaller outline deal at the same range.

It'll kill em if I can hunt them correct.
 
Something else I found interesting.
While I know 15 yards is very close, I really honestly believe with a low brass 8 shot at fifteen yards, I could cut a turkey's head CLEAN OFF.

Hole in the target about the size of a golf ball with overspray of pellets extending out to just larger than a tennis ball.

I was using those to get the sight "close" before unleashing the 3 1/2" 5 shot that I normally hunt with.
 
WMAn said:
What gun/load combo are you using, Ruger?
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Browning Silver NWTF edition.
24" barrel.
Winchester supreme 3 1/2" 5 shot.


Had trouble with the gun last year, the sights that came on it were extremely tall and no matter what I did with the rear sight the gun shot very high.

Missed a couple birds and rolled a couple that got up and ran off before I chunked it in the truck and went back to the mossberg.

Pretty disappointing for a man's dream gun that cost as much as that one too. :(

Think the Burris speed bead fixed it though.
 
RUGER said:
WMAn said:
What gun/load combo are you using, Ruger?
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Browning Silver NWTF edition.
24" barrel.
Winchester supreme 3 1/2" 5 shot.


Had trouble with the gun last year, the sights that came on it were extremely tall and no matter what I did with the rear sight the gun shot very high.
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What choke are you using? Where were you aiming on the bird?
 
Grizzly, not sure if you mean last year or this year...

When I had trouble with the gun I believe it was the factory sights being so dang tall.
It shot way high and no matter what I did to the rear sight, up or down, it still shot way high.
I was using a jellyhead as well as a compnchoke last year and neither made any difference.
Typically I will aim at the half way point between the top of his head and where his neck hits his body.

On the target above I was aiming at the dot.
I like for half my pattern to be above and the other half below my point of aim.

I sold my jellyhead and went with the compnchoke this year.
I have had very good luck with that choke in the past.
Thats what I shoot out of my mossberg too.
 
I am sorry, should have worded it different.... What choke did you use for the pattern you posted above?

RUGER said:
I sold my jellyhead and went with the compnchoke this year.
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Last year when you were missing where were you aiming?

If it is shooting high, maybe aim at the beard..... Raising the rear sight will make it shoot higher.... same thing happens when a hunter is trying to shoot a single bead and doesn't keep their head down on the gun.... they sight across the end of the barrel instead of down the rib to the end of the barrel, causing them to shoot high maybe even over the turkey.

You either need to lower the rear sight or raise the front sight (if possible and if you go back to factory sights). But since you went to the Speed-Bead you have the problem fixed for as long as you use it.

I like to aim at the area where the feathers stop on his neck... then if he moves his head he is still in the "kill pattern".
 
Did you pattern that load at 40 yards? Or do you just plan on shooting 25 max? That pattern is gonna open up alot in 15 more yards. I'm not trying to give you any crap but I would expect that load to blow a hole the size of your fist at 25 and the whole thing to be volley ball sized. IMO
 
piehole said:
Did you pattern that load at 40 yards? Or do you just plan on shooting 25 max? That pattern is gonna open up alot in 15 more yards. I'm not trying to give you any crap but I would expect that load to blow a hole the size of your fist at 25 and the whole thing to be volley ball sized. IMO
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Yeah I shot it at 40 also and it was "ok" but nothing amazing.
The picture above actually makes the paper look alot bigger than it really is. It is like maybe 11" wide and probably 14" to 16" tall.
Probably 99% of the holes in that paper could be covered up by a volleyball.
 
Grizzly, last year I was aiming where the top of the beard hit the chest to kill a bird. The ones I missed or just knocked down I was aiming half way up their neck.
I went so far as to take the ramp off the rear sight and it STILL shot high, way high.

She is good now though. ;)
 


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