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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Buster" data-source="post: 1576065" data-attributes="member: 99718"><p>I like to use a red dot scope because I can better sight a shotguns pattern in better than you can with basic sights, well some you can't sight in you just have to hold so the very center of your pattern is where you want it to be ! I have used the cheap BSA brand for over 25 years and have had NO TROUBLE with it, I have left it turned on and drained the battery once right after I started using it ! I now always carry spare batteries, they hardly take up any room ! I do not use X sticks only my knee to rest my gun on, this works real well when you are setting up against a large tree ! The gun seems to be at the exact level that I want it to be at, one word that I feel is very important ! ALWAYS set against the tree with you less dominate side facing the direction you expect the turkey will appear from this give you a better radius of swing with your gun ! Set tight against the tree, I prefer to just set down on a cushion and have my knees up in the air and being right handed have my left side facing the direction from where I suspect the turkey will come from and have my gun resting on my knee ! Do not!! try holding your gun up off of your knee, this is where a lot of turkey hunters have made a fatal mistake ! I don't care how strong you are if you get stuck in that position, you may be in it for a long time and not be able to move ! Your gun starts to put on weight that you never dreamed it could after you have held it up off of you knee for a while and eventually you will start moving the gun and the longer you hold it up the more radical the movement becomes and a turkey has been known to see a gun barrel move at a 100 yards, so let the gun rest on your knee and shoot from this position if you can, it is a very steady rest, and if you have to move the gun some always do so when the turkeys head is behind something, a tree, bush, rock, or even his own tail when he is in full strut ! If you do have to move the gun when the turkeys head is not be hind something do it very slowly, they will see this but you will often have enough time to get your dot or sights on them before they get out of range, provided they are close when you start ! A fast move with your gun to get on a turkey usually always results in either an instant flush or a running turkey ! Hope these tips help you some day bag a long beard ! P.S. I think anything with some green in it for the spring woods will be an ok camo pattern, nothing that has faded white or any of the extra dark patterns, you don't want something that sticks out ! Also if you are using a blind it would probably be best then to use some kind of a shooting rest or sticks to avid having to hold your gun up for possibly a very long time and be careful also in a blind that you don't bang your gun into anything making a noise or movement that might spook the birds !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Buster, post: 1576065, member: 99718"] I like to use a red dot scope because I can better sight a shotguns pattern in better than you can with basic sights, well some you can't sight in you just have to hold so the very center of your pattern is where you want it to be ! I have used the cheap BSA brand for over 25 years and have had NO TROUBLE with it, I have left it turned on and drained the battery once right after I started using it ! I now always carry spare batteries, they hardly take up any room ! I do not use X sticks only my knee to rest my gun on, this works real well when you are setting up against a large tree ! The gun seems to be at the exact level that I want it to be at, one word that I feel is very important ! ALWAYS set against the tree with you less dominate side facing the direction you expect the turkey will appear from this give you a better radius of swing with your gun ! Set tight against the tree, I prefer to just set down on a cushion and have my knees up in the air and being right handed have my left side facing the direction from where I suspect the turkey will come from and have my gun resting on my knee ! Do not!! try holding your gun up off of your knee, this is where a lot of turkey hunters have made a fatal mistake ! I don't care how strong you are if you get stuck in that position, you may be in it for a long time and not be able to move ! Your gun starts to put on weight that you never dreamed it could after you have held it up off of you knee for a while and eventually you will start moving the gun and the longer you hold it up the more radical the movement becomes and a turkey has been known to see a gun barrel move at a 100 yards, so let the gun rest on your knee and shoot from this position if you can, it is a very steady rest, and if you have to move the gun some always do so when the turkeys head is behind something, a tree, bush, rock, or even his own tail when he is in full strut ! If you do have to move the gun when the turkeys head is not be hind something do it very slowly, they will see this but you will often have enough time to get your dot or sights on them before they get out of range, provided they are close when you start ! A fast move with your gun to get on a turkey usually always results in either an instant flush or a running turkey ! Hope these tips help you some day bag a long beard ! P.S. I think anything with some green in it for the spring woods will be an ok camo pattern, nothing that has faded white or any of the extra dark patterns, you don't want something that sticks out ! Also if you are using a blind it would probably be best then to use some kind of a shooting rest or sticks to avid having to hold your gun up for possibly a very long time and be careful also in a blind that you don't bang your gun into anything making a noise or movement that might spook the birds ! [/QUOTE]
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