yankytrash
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Well, a buddy of mine has offered to drag me along goose huntin this Thanksgiving. His father and him have been goose huntin for their entire lives, so they have everything we need - floatin blind and liscense, dog, sweet boat with some kinda wizzbang blind gadgetry, "big foot" goose decoys, etc...
They've been steady throwing me a little advice here and there - when to shoot, what gun to use, how the day may go, past huntin stories. The only part I don't like is that they're sayin I don't need to bother bringing ammo. They'll bring me some 3" Hevishot they use. Well, ok, I guess.
My dilemna is that I don't use my 3" magnums. 2 of 3 of my 870s are 3", but I always use my 2 3/4" Wingmaster when shootin skeet, deer/turkey huntin, plinkin, etc. Even when I use my 3" 870's, I'm always shootin 2 3/4". I couldn't tell you anymore about a 3" than the man on the moon.
So whatchu think? Should I just dis their offer of the Hevishot and go get me something I'm more used to? Maybe some 7 1/2 steel 2 3/4? Dang if I know. Seems to me it's a little too late to be changin up now.
My gun options are:
870 Wingmaster 20" bead sight/cylinder bore (the gun I use all the time)
870 Wingmaster Magnum 20" rifle sights/removable chokes (about 5 different turkey chokes for it, but never shot the gun at all - don't prefer rifle sights on shotguns)
870 Express Magnum 28" bead sight/ removable chokes
My contention is this - if my 20" cylinder bore takes turkeys down with the right loads, why not use it for geese? From what I hear, these geese are going to be sitting on top of us when we pop'm, so why would we need 3"?
They've been steady throwing me a little advice here and there - when to shoot, what gun to use, how the day may go, past huntin stories. The only part I don't like is that they're sayin I don't need to bother bringing ammo. They'll bring me some 3" Hevishot they use. Well, ok, I guess.
My dilemna is that I don't use my 3" magnums. 2 of 3 of my 870s are 3", but I always use my 2 3/4" Wingmaster when shootin skeet, deer/turkey huntin, plinkin, etc. Even when I use my 3" 870's, I'm always shootin 2 3/4". I couldn't tell you anymore about a 3" than the man on the moon.
So whatchu think? Should I just dis their offer of the Hevishot and go get me something I'm more used to? Maybe some 7 1/2 steel 2 3/4? Dang if I know. Seems to me it's a little too late to be changin up now.
My gun options are:
870 Wingmaster 20" bead sight/cylinder bore (the gun I use all the time)
870 Wingmaster Magnum 20" rifle sights/removable chokes (about 5 different turkey chokes for it, but never shot the gun at all - don't prefer rifle sights on shotguns)
870 Express Magnum 28" bead sight/ removable chokes
My contention is this - if my 20" cylinder bore takes turkeys down with the right loads, why not use it for geese? From what I hear, these geese are going to be sitting on top of us when we pop'm, so why would we need 3"?