Shot this one for jbyrd! Hope everyone is having a great turkey season. We fried a couple wild turkey breasts on Easter Sunday and they were wonderful. Thankful that He is Risen and thankful that God made turkeys!

Nice bird !!!!

CONGRATS !!!!!

Congrats

nice bird
for Jbird you say

you absolutely can shoot turkeys with the sub caliber shotguns your actual target isn't any bigger or tougher than a squirrel

I bet if it was legal a lot more people would shoot turkeys with a 22lr or 22 short it works , I didn't do it , nor was I party to it , but I do know it works.

Nice bird! Congratulations

What’s the story? Haw far the shot?

This bird was hung up bad at about 80 yards. Could not get him to gobble. Finally got a hen down to my right fired up and called her in to about 5 yards away. That was enough to ease the tom my way. He only ever gobbled one time.

The neighbor has a lawn mower from the 70's or 80's with the exhaust chopped off. It's an old John Deere. He rides it around. He cranked it up as that gobbler was coming and that really boogered us.

Gobbler ran off with the hens to about 150 yards away. I really had to hammer on the calling but finally got him headed back my way after buddy shut his Harley Davidson lawn mower off.

He made a big loop out in the field and came in to the edge of the woods down on my left. I only had one small window for a shot through all the brush. I thought it to be about a 30 yard shot but stepped it off at 45 steps.

I touched the shot off and he just laid over. No flopping or carrying on. The people who say there are no levels of dead have never shot tungsten.

I'm very happy to get him. Should have killed him 3 times over if we wouldn't have had the neighbor carrying on. Had to take a tough shot through a bunch of junk but made it happen!

That’s awesome. Good work man. Turkey hunting is so much fun...so many different scenarios, even neighbors Harley Davidson mower lol

Thanks for sharing

Good job!

That's right! Modern shotshells allow you to do some pretty crazy stuff

Double cool, I myself just don't shoot enough shot anymore to justify the cost. But if the stars all align just right I may try it just once to see what all the fuss is about. Congrats on the bird.
Casexx

Nice bird and story!

Very impressive shotgun performance! Also very good hunting skills to pull that bird back!

I don’t doubt the TSS lethality, but the cost stops me. At 2 turkey shells per year, I have 9 years to go. By then, my hunting days may be over.

Of course there are varying degrees of lethality. I am used to instant kills with rarely any flopping with my 12 gauge 3.5” buffered load of #5 copper plated lead shot.

My nephews buddy recently missed a tom 3 times with TSS shells. Expensive poor marksmanship!

Thanks gentlemen.

WF: I would bet your nephews buddy did not pattern his gun ahead of time. Some of the tss loads with extremely heavy payloads do not shoot true to point of aim and can leave you scratching your head. That is why you see a lot of guys with the red dot sights that they can "sight in" like a rifle. I've found that by shooting a slightly more standard load weight the point of aim will come back to meet the point of impact.

For example, the 1-5/8oz load in my 28ga requires a red dot to shoot true. The 1oz to 1-3/8 loads load do not

What's the purpose, to save shot?

The purpose of what hippie? Shooting a 1 oz load vs a 1-5/8oz load?

I do this to save on shot and so that the gun will shoot true to point of aim and I won't have to use a red dot

Ok, to save shot. Kinda what I was guessing if going to the bother.

Yes sir thats right. You get to a point of diminishing returns in my opinion. I can put just as many pellets in the 10" at 40 yards with a 1-3/8oz load as I can with a 1-5/8oz load so I don't feel that the heavier payload is necessary

For reference in my 1-3/8oz load of #9 tss I have 501 pellets, a 3.5" 12 ga load of #5 copper coated lead has 340 pellets

Good job. That’s a good looking bird. If the weather will straighten out, maybe they will do something here this week. Those smaller gauges and that TSS are pretty wicked.

turkey dont know if you killed it with an 1 1/8 oz reload of 6's or a 14 dollar a shot gander mountain super hunter turkey tss special 5 inch shell designed to shoot in a 3 inch chamber. shot in the back running away with a 45 grain ballistic tip out of a 22 hornet loaded at about 2500 fps the breast isnt bruised and tastes just like the one shot with 6's that tastes just like the one shot with the 5 inch tss special super hunter turkey load,

who cares what you choose to kill a turkey. whats important is fish and game depts are charging about 5 times to much for tags