UL turkey gun

[juju]

The Yildiz TK-36 is the kingfish of lightweight turkey guns at 3.3#. Some will do the business with no help. Others need a choke installed.

Pictured is a 3.3# .410 that holds a pattern to at least fifty yards with tungsten and to 35 with lead. I stopped testing at fifty because the load is subsonic and starts to drop there. 28” + subsonic is easy on the earballs.
Red dot Mount by SumToy; same as choke.I wish I knew who made the Paracord strap.

 

[madgrad02]

Picked up a Stevens 301 in 410 for the boy (and daughter in a year or two yet) - going to try and get him out this year for his first bird. Not sure of the exact weight, but thing is way lighter than anything else I have in the safe and have heard nothing but good things with TSS loads.

 

[Swamp Fox]

Would like to see pics of the pattern at 50.

Thanks.

 

[juju]

Picked up a Stevens 301 in 410 for the boy (and daughter in a year or two yet) - going to try and get him out this year for his first bird. Not sure of the exact weight, but thing is way lighter than anything else I have in the safe and have heard nothing but good things with TSS loads.

The Stevens has a pretty good chunk of steel in it. Weighs same as a 20ga. Not all bad for someone who may be sensitive to recoil, but it's handicapped by the 410. 20ga is easier to work with.

 

[juju]

Would like to see pics of the pattern at 50.

Thanks.

I don't think I can help on that. I've been killing turkeys with it for years. All the testing has long since been ironed out. I recall that pattern being even and all inside 20”. That's not what you'd get with a factory shells

 

[Honyock]

The Stevens 301 410 weighs a hair over 5 pounds. Plenty light enough for me.

 

[Ferrulewax]

I thought the Rossi Tuffy couldn't be beat, but I think this one edges it out. I have thought about getting a rossi brawler threaded for a choke tube for trail run/turkey hunts but I have no idea what kind of pattern you would get.

 

[Loper]

The Yildiz TK-36 is the kingfish of lightweight turkey guns at 3.3#. Some will do the business with no help. Others need a choke installed.

Pictured is a 3.3# .410 that holds a pattern to at least fifty yards with tungsten and to 35 with lead. I stopped testing at fifty because the load is subsonic and starts to drop there. 28” + subsonic is easy on the earballs.
Red dot Mount by SumToy; same as choke.I wish I knew who made the Paracord strap.View attachment 859157
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I’ve been thinking of getting one of the Yildiz TKs as an ultralite shotgun and chopping the barrel down, trimming the stock and forend so that fully folds in half. The 12 gauge would be super versatile and handy but the recoil would probably be brutal. How does the 410 feel with such a light shotgun, still very soft?

 

[left hunter]

I sure would be interested in hearing about the Brass 410 shells and how you load them.

 

[Long Cut]

Looks similar to the Charles Daly 101. Mines a 12GA with a 20” barrel

 

[Turkeytider]

Picked up a Stevens 301 in 410 for the boy (and daughter in a year or two yet) - going to try and get him out this year for his first bird. Not sure of the exact weight, but thing is way lighter than anything else I have in the safe and have heard nothing but good things with TSS loads.

Hope you’re teaching your son, and later on your daughter, the true art of turkey hunting. I fear that learning the patience and skill required to call a gobbler inside of 40 yards before taking the shot is going the way of the dodo in favor of sniping shots at 60+ yards. TSS has revolutionized sub gauge shooting for sure, and web sites are replete with descriptions of kill shots approaching 70 yards. What you WON’T see are the reports of crippled birds that I’ll personally never believe don’t happen. Good luck, and I hope your boy gets his first long beard!

 

[madgrad02]

Hope you’re teaching your son, and later on your daughter, the true art of turkey hunting. I fear that learning the patience and skill required to call a gobbler inside of 40 yards before taking the shot is going the way of the dodo in favor of sniping shots at 60+ yards. TSS has revolutionized sub gauge shooting for sure, and web sites are replete with descriptions of kill shots approaching 70 yards. What you WON’T see are the reports of crippled birds that I’ll personally never believe don’t happen. Good luck, and I hope your boy gets his first long beard!

haha - for sure... working on sitting still for more than an hr at a time, but sitting in a ground blind helps. But totally agree on teaching him the necessary skills to be a successful turkey hunter and getting more up close and personal. He loves messing around with all my calls (duck, goose, elk, turkey) - nothing like getting back my spit-soaked mouth call from him!

 

[Turkeytider]

haha - for sure... working on sitting still for more than an hr at a time, but sitting in a ground blind helps. But totally agree on teaching him the necessary skills to be a successful turkey hunter and getting more up close and personal. He loves messing around with all my calls (duck, goose, elk, turkey) - nothing like getting back my spit-soaked mouth call from him!

That’s great! Along with calling, patience is another lost attribute of classic turkey hunting. I’ve talked to a gobbler for 30 minutes only to have him wander off with “ real “ hens. He knows where you ( the other hen ) is down to a few yards and will often come back after his hens dump him. Sometimes it takes two hours of sitting.

 

[juju]

Recoil is a pleasant relief. Shotgun recoil does not compare directly with anything else because of the recoil velocity. Rough guesstimate I'd say it's like a 30/06. I've loaded for a youth sized 20ga that kicks less because the 20ga gun is heavier. A lightweight 20ga can throw more shot for less kick but nothing is as light as the TK-36.

Brass hulls load like plastic except you use Duco to secure the overshot card. There is no pressure tested data. If you want assurance you'll have to load one and send it off. I would like to say I've done that, but I have not. My loads are almost the same as loads that have pressure data in plastic but with tweaks to improve performance. To do right you send off each variant before patterning. Pfffft.

I think the nicest of the trigger release folders are the Berettas, but they're hard to find and weigh as much as a 28ga repeater. The Yildiz is the only .410 I'd fool with because the only reason to use a .410 is to save weight.

 

[juju]

I thought the Rossi Tuffy couldn't be beat, but I think this one edges it out. I have thought about getting a rossi brawler threaded for a choke tube for trail run/turkey hunts but I have no idea what kind of pattern you would get.

If it's a handgun it has to have some kind of rifling. You can get a choke made that has very little twist that will get you to about thirty yards, from what I've seen. I have not done it.

BUT, broken record, the Yildiz has that small aluminum receiver. The Brawler is within a pound of it due to the receiver. You could probably get a pound off the Yildiz removing wood and barrel. I used to want to do the same with a Contender until I shot the Yildiz holding it like a pistol. Same, same except you'd don't have to deal with the rifled choke tube.

 

[CBB1]

Looks similar to the Charles Daly 101. Mines a 12GA with a 20” barrel

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I bet that thing hammers on both ends with a stiff turkey load!


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[CBB1]

I built my “ideal” LW turkey gun a few years ago and have enjoyed it. It’s a Yildz 20ga youth O/U. I set it up with a red dot and choked the top barrel for standard turkey distance shots then the bottom barrel with IC choke for when they slip in too close. It is almost too light and too short to enjoy shooting but with a turkey it doesn’t happen too often. It really barks.

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[CBB1]

I built my “ideal” LW turkey gun a few years ago and have enjoyed it. It’s a Yildz 20ga youth O/U. I set it up with a red dot and choked the top barrel for standard turkey distance shots then the bottom barrel with IC choke for when they slip in too close. It is almost too light and too short to enjoy shooting but with a turkey it doesn’t happen too often. It really barks.

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Having a selector switch makes it nice for when you that bird gets in too tight.


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[Long Cut]

I bet that thing hammers on both ends with a stiff turkey load!


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I only shoot reduced recoil 2 3/4 TSS and its honestly not bad, comparable to a 20 with 3”

 

[Billy Goat]

Brass hulls load like plastic except you use Duco to secure the overshot card.

Just a little bit of crimp sealer can cause big pressure swings on crimped plastic shells


I'd be a bit nervous to take plastic shell data and just put it in a brass. You using straight or taper hull data?

That Yildiz looks to have a good bit of support around the shell, but I'd still be cautious.

If you getting along with it, use at your own risk. Just a bit of a warning for anyone reading who would decide to try it.

Especially using some of the handgun powders frequently used to hand load tss, they can spike high and fast.