Colerain turkey choke barrel

[B.Habermehl]

Any of the membership have any direct expierence with load developement and shooting these barrels?  BJH

[WaterFowl]

I use a lubed patch wad cup..to keep the fowling soft and reduce leading.....

load 75 gr. FFF-Goex
2 thin white overshot cards
2 wool Oxyoke wool(yellow wads-lubed
1 1"x3.5" .020 pillow ticking wad patch--lubed
Hoppe's black powder and solvent lube..moist
95 volume #5 Nickel plated lead shot..From Ballistic products
1 thin white over shot card

used the ram rod to form the lubed patch into the bore the patch clung to the barrel walls forming a cup
drove the shot column down with a Hoppe's lube patch.

This kept the fowling soft and the patterns intact.The  lubed wads also kept this gun firing. No swabbing between shots
shot 20 times and the load column went down smooth from start to finish.
I have been working on loads for these barrels this is what we found to work!

plastic shot cup for shot measure only......



recovered patch cups


25 yards  11X8.5"





I needed to put a rear sight on my barrels


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[David R. Pennington]

Very nice pattern at 25. Have you tried patterning at any other distances.

[WaterFowl]

yes..30 and 35 yards...sorry no pic's.... both good hit count in spine and head.