UL turkey gun

[juju]

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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A 7/8oz load of T10s makes 40 yards with factory full out of my son's youth Yildiz 20ga. His version has a little longer barrels. It kicks less than the .410.

 

[juju]

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.

True story, but you're not sealing a crimp that has to unroll or unfold. You're trying to get the overshot card to stick to the slick walls of a brass hull. Still, you're on your own if you do it. You can buy loads made to pressure proofed recipes.

You won't ever be as stylish, tho. Brass has class.

 

[CBB1]

A 7/8oz load of T10s makes 40 yards with factory full out of my son's youth Yildiz 20ga. His version has a little longer barrels. It kicks less than the .410.

I’m not smart enough to load lite. I hand load 1 5/8oz of 9s and take my whooping with glee.


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[juju]

That's like touching off both barrels of a .58 caliber muzzleloading double at the same time. I have the full size version of that. The recoil is stout at maybe 80% of what you shoot. Some of the light doubles will double-fire if you use too heavy a load. We had that problem with a Franchi. I have wondered if it might happen with my Yildiz as it ages. If your hasn't, and mine hasn't in the 10+ years I've been hunting it, then I bet we're in good shape.

 

[Bobbyboe]

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.

I’d agree with this. I debated between the .410 and 20ga for my kid, and chose the 20ga. He is shooting reduced recoil loads of tss and it great patterns. When he is older he will shoot full magnum loads, which will hit harder than 12ga lead loads.

I bought a second one for myself because they are so light and easy to shoot. I’ll never shoot a 12ga again for turkey.

 

[Ringbill27]

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

Uffda I bet that’s a handful! I like it!

 

[Long Cut]

Uffda I bet that’s a handful! I like it!

It’s actually not awful with reduced recoil 2 3/4” loads. I added an AirTech Limbsaver recoil pad which definitely helps over the plastic one from the factory on those guns