Turkey Load

[Bigslam51]

Killed one many years ago with an old H@R single shot 10 guage at 59 yd's.

Misjudge the yardage?

 

[Boarhead]

Nope that gun is a beast,prob would kill one at 70. Lol

 

[Boarhead]

Too fuggin heavy to lug around all the time.

 

[jagermeister]

Hevi Shot 3" #5s. With a factory Remington super full choke. Longest kill with it is 68 yards. Closest kill was 7 steps. Lol

 

[Gordo]

62, 59, 68...... good lord. That's reaching out and touching one!

Impressive. I guess all it takes is one piece of shot in the right place and it's game over. I've clearly been under estimating the effective range for killing. Still like the idea of blasting one that's a couple steps from the muzzle

 

[Boarhead]

Done that before Gordo,blew the top of it's head off,bird was about 5 feet from the barrel. Lol
Damn bird about ran over me.

 

[Boarhead]

Of course have also missed a few in close. Lol

 

[Bigslam51]

62, 59, 68...... good lord. That's reaching out and touching one!

Impressive. I guess all it takes is one piece of shot in the right place and it's game over. I've clearly been under estimating the effective range for killing. Still like the idea of blasting one that's a couple steps from the muzzle

Although I don't gun hunt turkeys, I do watch a lot of turkey hunting videos. The thing you have to consider is not every shell/choke combo will work out of every gun. You have to play around with the combos to see what your gun likes.

 

[bigten05]

Winchester xr. 5s both birds I shot in Tennessee were around 45 yards and they didn't move when it hit them.

 

[aholdren]

Gordo those long distance shots Im guessing are in the open field and as luck would have it, it only takes 1 pellet to kill them if you can hit that pea sized brain.
Ive shot them at less than 5 yards and removed half their head and watched them flop for 10 seconds or better and Ive also shot them at 25 yards and they never even quiver. I never understood the " I killed him so dead that he never even moved after he hit the dirt." Ive watched guys decapitate them with Gobbler Guillotine's with bows and they flop like crazy.

Good luck Gordo.