Red Dot Scope

Does anyone here use a red dot scope on there turkey gun? I put a Tru Glow Red Dot scope on my 870 last year for deer hunting and I love it, I dropped three does with it last year. I would think that it would great for turkeys as well.

I use nothing but one Only thing I can say is , If you have the $ buy a gun for Turkey hunting and one for deer hunting When I didn’t have much $ I used to mess with it from deer season to Turkey season With this said I picked up a great deer gun and put a awesome scope on it and turned my old deer/turkey gun into my TURKEY gun … Red dot pinned in at 50 yards and this gun has killed I would guess 30 birds and I will never use it for anything else I set Gunner up with a 20 gauge and a red red for under $200 and he can shoot that sucker like any person that has shot for 30 years

Hey Steve I know a few guys that use a red dot for birds. They tell me if it is sighted in with slugs it should be good to go for turkey using bird shot. I don’t know how much truth there is to it. They told me think of the center of your shot shell as the center of the slug.

Wish I had one I used to help a little more.

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Hey Steve I know a few guys that use a red dot for birds. They tell me if it is sighted in with slugs it should be good to go for turkey using bird shot. I don’t know how much truth there is to it. They told me think of the center of your shot shell as the center of the slug.

Wish I had one I used to help a little more.

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It will NOT shoot the same

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I put a Tru Glow Red Dot scope on my 870 last year for deer hunting and I love it, I dropped three does with it last year

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My favorite gun for deer hunting the thick stuff!

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Hey Steve I know a few guys that use a red dot for birds. They tell me if it is sighted in with slugs it should be good to go for turkey using bird shot. I don’t know how much truth there is to it. They told me think of the center of your shot shell as the center of the slug.

Wish I had one I used to help a little more.

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It will NOT shoot the same

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I have to re-zero mine when I switch from turkey loads to slugs. It doesn’t take much time and I can’t afford to take the chance that I’ll miss after I put all the time, money and effort into getting a shot at ANY animal. JMHO.

Make sure you invest in a quality red dot sight. The cheaper ones can’t take the recoil of 3″ turkey loads or deer slugs. I have a Bushnell on my turkey gun and I really like it. It has 4 different styles of aiming points. It has a little dot, a dot in a circle, a crosshair and a crosshair in a circle. I use the dot to sight in with and the dot in the circle for turkeys and the crosshair for deer and bears. Works really well in low light conditions. Just be sure you turn it off before putting it in the case or you might not have a sight to hunt with when the battery is dead. I usually carry a spare in my pack, just in case I mess up and forget to turn it off.

Thanks for all the input guys looks like I need to get down to the gun range and site that baby in.

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Hey Steve I know a few guys that use a red dot for birds. They tell me if it is sighted in with slugs it should be good to go for turkey using bird shot. I don’t know how much truth there is to it. They told me think of the center of your shot shell as the center of the slug.

Wish I had one I used to help a little more.

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It will NOT shoot the same

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This is just what I have been told. The only thing I have ever used a scope of any kind on is my riffle. I do all of my turkey, and deer hunting with open sights I would like to try one for deer sometime though.

How do you go about sighting in a red dot for a turkey load?

I had the gunsmith who mounted it use a laser boresighter to get it close and then i used trap loads (easier on the shoulder and wallet!). Shoot at a target at a very close range to center your pattern. I shot from about 25 feet. You want your pattern to be really tight so it makes one big, clean hole. Once you are on target, move back to 20 yards and shoot a turkey load to verify your zero. If its on target, move back to 30, 40 and 50 yards to determine your maximum range.

I have a caldwell lead slead so no worries about the shoulder but still sounds like a good idea with the target loads, thanks for the tips.

Headed down to the gun club today to site in the red dot, well I lucked out, here is a pic of my first shot at 25 yards and I never had to adjust the scope at all!