3.5 turkey load out of a non ported 835, hardest I ever been hit.
The 18” barrel version will stomp you. But the hardest I’ve been hit was a 3” 20 oz turkey load in a Winchester 1300 NWTF edition. It’s the only turkey gun I wouldn’t shoot twice and I’ve shot bunch prior to TSS
I have a winchester 1300 "black shadow " I think is what it was called. It was the lightest 12 ga. pump at the time and was lethal with nitro mega weights, the short turkey barrel, and Indian creek choke tube. It also came with a slug barrel, so I decided I would sight it in and shoot a deer with a slug. NOPE, its not worth it, hands down the hardest recoil I have every felt.
The Mossberg repution for suckity-suckitude has been reversed in the last 10 or so years with better products.
I've shot 3.5-inch turkey loads in ported and non-ported guns with long and short barrels. ALL of those sumbitches kick like a MFer. Mossberg doesn't have an exclusive on rattling the fillings in your molars.
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Bought a 935 almost 20 years ago and have killed a pile of turkeys with it,no issues with it at all.
I wore one out carrying it with the loading port over my shoulder. Mossberg informed me it was a known problem and sent parts. The gun did real well with the old Win Supreme load of sixes. Turkeys just sat down when I pulled the trigger. I used it on canoe ducks, too. (Canoe ducks are the ones you kill while you sit in a canoe.) None too bad with cheap Winchester Xperts.
I talked it up so much my brother bought one. He killed turkeys with it for years before he ever got around to patterning it. The thing shot so far left he wasn't getting but a few pellets where they needed to go.
Anyhow mine wore out along when I started using 20ga Federal Heavyweights. I never got around to replacing it.
The Mossberg repution for suckity-suckitude has been reversed in the last 10 or so years with better products.
I've shot 3.5-inch turkey loads in ported and non-ported guns with long and short barrels. ALL of those sumbitches kick like a MFer. Mossberg doesn't have an exclusive on rattling the fillings in your molars.
Agreed that mossberg has stepped it up. I did chunk a 500 in the swamp back in the 80s.
I’ve owned several 835s the last was the short barrel version. It kicked back and up and busted my lip. I couldn’t keep it on target trying to site it in. The others recoiled backwards as most shotguns do. Stock design determines a lot of recoil direction etc… I’ve been told. I’m guessing the short barrel makes it recoil upward. I’m not sure but assume so. I always patterned turkey guns while sitting and across my knee as if I’m actually hunting. We used to pattern several cases of nitros a year. 3 of us pursued the perfect turkey gun and never found it. We spent a ton of money trying. I bet I owned 10-12 turkey chokes at any given time. Heck I’ve got 8 duck chokes for just my new brownelli A5 and maybe that many for my HK SBE and 3 Rhino turkey tubes for it.
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