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Unread 05-03-2018, 03:22 PM   #41
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I use multiple chuck guns. .223, .22-250, .308 and the newest is 6.5 Creedmore. That one is scary accurate. All of them are dialed in at 200 yards. Shot 70 here 2 years ago. That never gets old.
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Unread 05-03-2018, 03:54 PM   #42
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Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, we have very few whistle pigs here in Northern Missouri, but the squirrel season opens at the end of the month. It's a good time to break out the vintage .22s. I also like to shoot them with light loads out of an old hammer gun or two. I wish we had woodchucks here.
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Unread 05-04-2018, 09:00 PM   #43
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Got one at 0900 today, a gobbler and a jake with a hen came in ,had to take the jake as the gobbled stayed 70 yards out. Now to try for # 2 ,in N.Y. you can only shoot one a day.
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Thanks for the info. Unfortunately, we have very few whistle pigs here in Northern Missouri, ... I wish we had woodchucks here.
Get your Missouri game department to bring some of the pests in just as we believe ours did with coyotes, which have taken over. Deer, turkey, rabbit, small dog, and cat populations are way down.

You'll like the holes under every building and extra holes in fields to break a leg in.
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The Parker 20 gauge got the job done.

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Unread 05-04-2018, 11:49 PM   #46
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Beautiful gobbler Phil, how big?
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Awesome picture Phil that picture rivals your southern bird this year.
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what a nice birdand with a 20 ga...them barrels on that 20 ga look to be a mile long in that picture...how far did you take this bird and what size shot and load....charlie
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I called this bird out of a deep bottom in a burn area. I was traveling to my camp site and stopped for a break. Decided to use my box call to yelp a few times and got a response back straight down about 500 yards. Called again and had two gobblers go off, one a little further down the road.
I was parked in the middle of the winding dirt road so I relocated the truck about 100 yards down the road where I could pull off. When I called again the bird that called the first time was clearly making his way up out of the valley. I had brought my VH 20 with 32” barrels along so I grabbed two shells, a few calls and headed back up the road where I had called the first time.
The burn area had very little cover but there was a small current bush on the side of the road. I hid behind it and Yelped a few more times. This time 2 gobblers answered back at about 250 yards. I kept calling every few minutes to encourage them to make the steep climb. By now I had 5 birds going off.
Unfortunatley I had very limited visibility. Five minutes later birds gobbled at about 40 yards and I got a glimps of a bird. Shortly a hen appeared in front of me at about 8 yards, putting and looking around. Suddenly off to my left a gobbler stuck his head up from behind a rock. I quickly shot and he bounced high mutiple times down the hill finally coming to rest against a downd pine. With that two other gobblers took to the air. At about 15 yards. The bird I estimate is a 3 year old and is an average size bird. I think the picture makes the bird look much larger.
My 20 gauge is choked Full and Full and has factory 2 7/8” chambers. I was shooting 3” shells with 1 7/8 oz of a 5,6,7 blend.
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