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what are you shooting at? novaking

I use 1 1/4 4 shot mx dram. Same loads I hunt pheasants with. These loads will not penatrate walls like buck shot. For peope with familys or if your in a apartment building, This might be the best choice out to 15-20 feet. If you live by yourself in a house next to houses, with shots out of 20 feet to 30 yards, go with buck shot. If you live by yourself in a house out in the middle of nowhere, You can shoot whatever, even slugs. Just remember, If you pull the tigger, you better know where the bullet is going. novaking

we get 15 in Illinois 30 in possesion. Love those little critters. A friend of mine runs the grain plant in town and he only lets us hunt on it. Can you say NICE. novaking

I think the recomended load is 1 1/8 3 gram novaking

Carlson chokes are great. I have them for my remington spr 310 o/u and for my novas. I think it made a big different with those guns.( novas aren't crio treated) and remington spr chokes sucked. I don't think are will be a big differance between the crio and carlson chokes but I don't know for sure. I do know that extended chokes do look cooler and you can take them out easier. I don't think you will waste your money but, its your money to spend. good luck novaking

Cool, Does this Steve have a site people can look at novaking

all I'm saying is I learn from this site. So thats where i'm getting this info. Instead of posting that I'm wrong, maybe when you post, say you have new info on the subject. I think you jump to gun a bit. novaking

splash, You should try this test. Its right up your alley

From people on this forum

don't tell me, tell tucker and mudhen, those are there posts I copied and pasted.

I got that idea from this site. Sorry about all the posts but, It really doesn't matter. It's what your comfortable with. Novaking

I pay no attention to the barrel length speed debate. The few fps either way doesn't matter to me. I recall it's in the single digit fps range per inch of barrel, which is irrelevant in the real world. I have been shooting 26" bbls my entire life because they fit my style of shooting and hunting. I hunt turkeys, so I like shorter barrels in general. Easier to move the gun around in tight spaces. I hunt ducks from a tank, so the gun needs to be long enough to not slide all over the place. I don't like 24" bbls in duck tanks - they can slide below the tank frame - not good I did have a 24" bbl Nova that I could not get to pattern well, so I'm can't say for sure shorter barrels pattern well. I think a 24" bbl SBE II would be a great gun thanks mudhen novaking

Other than a 28" barrel being about 10" closer to the target, barrel length really doesn't affect the pattern. __________________ thanks tucker novaking

This are some of the posts from other senior members on this site. Hmmmmm

A Benelli M4 makes about as perfect a Turkey Gun as you could possibly imagine. First of all, a shotgun developes all of it's velocity with modern ammo in 18" of barrel. Second, length of barrel is no factor in the pattern thrown by a shotgun. A turkey choke screwed into a M4 should pattern with a turkey choke screwed into any other length/brand of shotgun. Now, go out there and kill some damn gobblers.

There is no real ballistic advantage to a longer barrel. Longer barrels are generally better for wingshooting and if you're duck hunting, the people sharing the blind with you will appreciate another inch or two as it moves the blast farther out and away from their ears. The longer barrels swing more fluidly and the longer sighting plane helps target acquisition. Shorter barrels are good for turkey, rabbit, upland game where maneuverability is preferred over sighting plane. As demonstrated in the video, a semi-auto such as the SBEII utilizes a longer receiver than does a hinged action gun. The receiver extends the sighting plane by several inches. __________________

Splash, You tested a 24 inch barrel and the 30 inch barrel with a mod. choke on the same gun with the same shell. Man you need a wife or a girlfriend. A 36 inch barrel is not a " waste of steel" . The front bead is farther from your eye which helps site alinment, which which helps with longer targets. Thats why you see Goose hunters with (most of the time) with 28-?? inch barrels, and upland hunters stick with (most of the time) 26inch or less barrel. From what I have read on this forum and from other articals, they don't make a differance with the modern powders and shot we have today. Bottom line you are not in a controled enviornment, (you not in a lab). Did you count every pellet before you reloaded them? Did you double check the powder? Were you in the exact spot when you pulled the tigger? Do you have the same trigger pull? Are you shooting inside? Outside? Does it really matter if its a few pellets more than the shot before? Most game or targets need only 3-5 pellets to "kill" it. Good luck with all your tests Novaking

06:05 PM alexiv85 sent me a link to, I didn't open it but... novaking

barrel length as nothing to do with patterns. Its your choke that does all the work. novaking

Why are you waiting to get him a over under? Some o/u are fully adjustable, and you can buy him a 12 gauge and a set of 20 gauge tubes so when he gets older, you can adjust the stock and take out the 20 gauge tubes. novaking

carlson chokes http://www.choketube.com makes great tubes and you can buy 2 chokes for the price of a patternmaster. They have a new black cloud choke and many other chokes pattern great with steel. I use (for geese) the dead coyote choke with the dead coyote hevi T shot. Every time I pull the trigger, there down. novaking

Thats a good idea. novaking

Are you getting this right out of a book. THATS CHEATING DUDE!! novaking

Well a nova tactical http://www.benelliusa.com/firearms/novaPump.tpl is only other 40 buck more than the barrel. Its pretty hard to sell a nova barrel for this reason. Plus the 18 inch barrels have front sights on it. Are you trying to make your nova a tactial anyway? Is the gun black or camo? novaking

I think he said he had a question about his benelli. novaking