#4 or #2 Tss choke tube?

BBK said:
Big giant TSS possibly, but with #2 and smaller no. Most turkey hunters are shooting extremely tight chokes with it. You wont want that for coyotes anyways, you want some pattern. I would not be surprised if modified was even too tight for 40yd yotin. I shoot cylinder for bird hunting with tss to 40yds....
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I want my patterns as tight as tight gets. Tighter the better.

I shot a .650 Turkey choke with 2’s and blew the choke out.
 
Austin Laughlin said:
I want my patterns as tight as tight gets. Tighter the better.

I shot a .650 Turkey choke with 2’s and blew the choke out.
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Not me. But, different strokes and it's all good.

The stands I carry a shotgun on, the shots I get are like dove shooting with the doves going in and out of sight rapidly. Albeit, some darn big doves, but some much harder to kill doves too. I'm shooting at coyotes running through sage brush. They can't run in a straight line even if they want to. But I want some pattern width. And with TSS, there's no penalty to pattern width. Just a bigger beautiful swarm of death. It doesn't help to put 50 TSS #3 pellets in a coyote vs putting 25 pellets in it. The 25 is enough to get the job done reliably.

I don't carry the shotgun to take many shots over 50 yards either though. For me the fun of using a shotgun is getting them as close as I can before I shoot. My two favorite shotgun stands ever, one ran right into me running hard enough to knock me off my turkey seat. And another, the coyote was in midair, leaving the ground to hit the caller in the top of a tall piece of sage, and I held the shotgun out from the hip and shot with the muzzle about six inches from the coyote - in midair. He landed in the tall piece of brush the caller was in and then fell on top of me.

- DAA
 
DAA said:
Not me. But, different strokes and it's all good.

The stands I carry a shotgun on, the shots I get are like dove shooting with the doves going in and out of sight rapidly. Albeit, some darn big doves, but some much harder to kill doves too. I'm shooting at coyotes running through sage brush. They can't run in a straight line even if they want to. But I want some pattern width. And with TSS, there's no penalty to pattern width. Just a bigger beautiful swarm of death. It doesn't help to put 50 TSS #3 pellets in a coyote vs putting 25 pellets in it. The 25 is enough to get the job done reliably.

I don't carry the shotgun to take many shots over 50 yards either though. For me the fun of using a shotgun is getting them as close as I can before I shoot. My two favorite shotgun stands ever, one ran right into me running hard enough to knock me off my turkey seat. And another, the coyote was in midair, leaving the ground to hit the caller in the top of a tall piece of sage, and I held the shotgun out from the hip and shot with the muzzle about six inches from the coyote - in midair. He landed in the tall piece of brush the caller was in and then fell on top of me.

- DAA
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Wow I’d bet that’s fun lol I want them as close as I can get them, that’s fun of running a shotgun for me. But I’m not scared to skin the smoke wagon at range either. I’ll have to take some pictures of the country I hunt tomorrow, maybe it’ll give an idea of why I carry it.

The reason I like a tight pattern, is probably more mental than anything. But I’ve shot a a pile of my shotgun coyotes behind some kind of brush, mainly cedar tree limbs and they’re thick here. I’d imagine it’s about the same idea in your country with the sage brush. But I like to focus that shot as much as I can onto one spot.

I agree with the pellet count, all it takes is 1 anyway. But in my mind and how I’ve always looked at it, I’d rather take my chances with 50 on target than 10 or 20. I want all the odds in my favor that I can have.

Not saying your way is wrong DAA, hope you know I’m not trying to say anything like that. We know you’re a newbie here and killed only a handful. I still like to learn from your experiences 😉
 
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BBK said:
Thats just the standard carlsons tss turkey choke. Although all their turkey chokes say for shot #4 and smaller as i recall
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Most of the turkey hunters that are using TSS are using very small shot. Most common is #9 shot size. A few might use as big as #7.5, but #9 dominates the turkey crowd.
 
GC said:
Most of the turkey hunters that are using TSS are using very small shot. Most common is #9 shot size. A few might use as big as #7.5, but #9 dominates the turkey crowd.
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Yeah I used to shoot a lot of #7s. I’ve even shot #10s, but the #8s or #9s are my favorite. Ive killed quite a few birds with TSS and I don’t think #7s will do anything that #9s won’t. #9s will kill a bird wayyyy farther than I think a guy should try. Even the 20 gauges, TSS makes them a 60-70 yard gun.
 
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