Rifle sights on turkey gun
#1
Nontypical Buck
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pa
Posts: 4,647
Rifle sights on turkey gun
I have 3 turkey guns one has a scope, one has a double beed and one has rifle sights... Out of the 3 I think the rifle sights are the best for turkey hunting... Anybody else agree???
#3
RE: Rifle sights on turkey gun
I like my tru-glo all metal adjustable sights.I don't want to take a chance of fogging up a scope or knocking it off.You could bump them in the truck,I don't want anything to snag on bushes either,or How many times have you propped your gun against a tree while setting up,and it fall?
I don't like the beads because on my guns they were not centered 100%,and it was easy to not have my eyes lined up right.You know sometimes you get a tendency to raise up off the stock after a few 3.5's have bruised your cheek.That will 'cause you to shoot over a bird,and leave you feeling sick to your stomach.
After the tru-glo sights my pattern was centered,and I could really tell a difference when the bird was shot.Solid hit vs piece of a load...well..I call it Headless Horseman vs flop and drop.I love to see those little feet kicking in the air,and wings trying to keep balance..to no avail.
I don't like the beads because on my guns they were not centered 100%,and it was easy to not have my eyes lined up right.You know sometimes you get a tendency to raise up off the stock after a few 3.5's have bruised your cheek.That will 'cause you to shoot over a bird,and leave you feeling sick to your stomach.
After the tru-glo sights my pattern was centered,and I could really tell a difference when the bird was shot.Solid hit vs piece of a load...well..I call it Headless Horseman vs flop and drop.I love to see those little feet kicking in the air,and wings trying to keep balance..to no avail.
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Calif
Posts: 1,894
RE: Rifle sights on turkey gun
With all the craze about scopes and patterns nowadays open sites seem to be for the old school boys!!!So call me old school...I like em too,Magnum Gobble Dot on my trusty old Ithica just keeps layin em in the grass!!
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,329
RE: Rifle sights on turkey gun
I would say it depends on how close you bring them in. My friends take them from a ways out. I would need a scope to do that. I prefer them in close so the fiber sights that I have work great.
Tom
Tom
#7
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Hoges Store, Va
Posts: 113
RE: Rifle sights on turkey gun
I used to be a scope guy.....I have a 1300 that would shoot off center, and I could not make myself hold off of the gobblers head...so I put a scope on it and choked it down to where I was throwing a pretty dang tight pattern out there.....After Spring Gobblers season last year, i got the hankering for something different and bought a Win Super X2 and put the tru-glo adjustable sights on it and it shoots dead nuts.....so I'm going to have to re-adjust to not having the scope...