GLS wrote:Steve, way to go! Are you still having regulation issues with barrels poi/poa??
In looking at the cart, I think you could put a large cardboard fan on the back of it, wear a white and red ski mask, and slowly drive straight into a stutting bird. Check your local regs first.
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Gil - Great idea on making the cart into a decoy, but it wouldn't be legal in AL.
I gave up on ever getting the Yildiz to shoot straight and decided to just let it shoot where it wants to shoot. For those who weren't around here when I first tried to set it up, the problem I had was the same I've had with almost every SXS I've tried with tungsten turkey loads - the left barrel shot way to the left and the right barrel shot to the right. Its just a characteristic of lighter SXS guns; 2 different Berettas I tried did the same thing, as well as several other cheaper guns.
I had Briley's make eccentric chokes for it, but their formula didn't work on this gun with these shells. I tried filing the chokes to pull the patterns back to center, and that did work. Unfortunately, it greatly degraded the patterns. I was only getting about 150 hits with tss#9, so I junked that idea. One of the chokes the Briley's made threw the pattern in the left barrel about 8" to the right. Their formula greatly over-compensated for the gun shooting left. I got to thinking that the left barrel was hitting about where the right barrel was with a straight choke, so I started working on it to try to set it up so that the POI was actually 8" right on both barrels. I had to file the eccentric choke a little to make it shoot to the same place as the straight right tube, but I finally got it right before this season.
So the gun shoots 8" right, but I am able to correct that with the FF sight. The right barrel with a flush .585 choke puts about 300 in the 10" circle at 40 yards. The left barrel .575 eccentric choke is erratic, and puts anywhere from 125 to 200 in the circle, but it least its to the same place. So the .585 chokes throws my tight pattern and the .575 choke throws the open pattern for close shots.
I don't have much confidence in the eccentric choke, so its just a backup barrel in case I need a second shot. I just shoot the right barrel and treat the gun like a single shot. Fortunately, it made clean one shot kills on all that I shot at so far. I'm going to OK with a group next week, so I hope I didn't jinx myself by saying that.
Thanks for all the replies, and good hunting to all!