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Unread 04-13-2018, 06:31 PM   #21
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Thanks for the update Jerry. Looking forward to the follow up report of your turkey hunt. Best of luck!
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It's okay - I'm good with my chilled #6 lead from .042 & .043 chokes at 45 yards or less.






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Finally was playing around in the interweb and saw a video of fella shooting Federal TSS in 3.5 shell using #9. Not certain what his choke was but pretty sure it was turkey choke but he put a lot of pellets into the kill zone target at about 75 yards. Pattern was also evenly dispersed so even if you were off some, plenty of shot to wax that bird on either side. Pretty cool stuff.
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I wonder how many ounces of shot those 3.5" shells were loaded with?

Anybody here shooting 3.5" shells in their Parker?




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I wonder how many ounces of shot those 3.5" shells were loaded with?

Anybody here shooting 3.5" shells in their Parker?




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Gawd I hope not unless its a bigger gun than a 12 gauge. Besides if your shooting at a turkey head at some of the distances people are patterning, you almost need a scope on the gun. I don't think I want to see a scope on a Parker.

I think Jerry is like others in finding out one of the limitations on SXS when it comes to distances, barrel regulation, sighting, point of impacts when it comes to a need of tight patterns on a small target. There is probably never going to be a need to overload a Parker for a long range distance shot on turkey. 40 yards is probably about the limit unless you start really vectoring your aim accounting for regulation left to right which can be challenging.

I know alot of really big time turkey hunters. One of them loves old sxs but he got a customized O/U that he loves and he calls it the perfect turkey gun for all occasions. Bottom barrel zeroed in at 35 yards and top barrel is dead on at 50+ yards.

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Thanks for the update Jerry. Looking forward to the follow up report of your turkey hunt. Best of luck!
No test volunteers so far. I've called in four so far. Opening day a 60 yard look at my decoy did not please him; Tuesday a fly down to 75 yards and one gobble (called him back at about 11 a.m.) and he said goodbye; and today, well I watched him strut at another seventy-five yards, and the clock struck twelve (end of shooting time) and he was safe for another day. We talked for over an hour. All of them have lots of concubines.

I give them 3 points for every day they beat me. I get seven for a score. Score now: 15 to 0. Three more shutouts and I can't beat them this year.

Back again tomorrow at 5 a.m.
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i went hunting this morning for about a hour i seen a good gobbler but he was call shy....been putting radiator on my hunting truck they gave me wrong thermostat....hope to hunt a lot next week....jerry i hope you get to use that new shot load on a 60 yard turkey....charlie
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Jerry, I just recently started loading with TSS too. Also purchased from Hal. Looking forward to smoking some gobblers in a few weeks! Amazing that the #9 has the same energy at 60 yards as the lead 4s do at 40!!! Might even use some of these for waterfowl in the future if I can't get any ITX shot. Hal is great at providing recipes for the various loads too. Using 8s or 9s throws a heck of a dense pattern at those birds!!
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JA Early said, "I see the shot is now $53/pound. Tariffs taking effect. I guess I'll have to operate on any turkey I kill to recover the shot from him."

From what I was told if you shoot a turkey at "usual" distances there is enough energy that the shot goes right through them. They have yet to recover a pellet!!
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Dang, something tells me waterfowl hunting is going to get a lot more expensive.
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