Question about damascus barrels and turkey loads

[Jawjadawg]

True, and I'm probably over thinking it. It's not like a turkey has a head made of steel. This will be my first season hunting turkeys with a vintage gun and low pressure loads, thus the concern with trying to learn a little more about the loads. I started reading about it and read several posts on other forums about people having their turkeys run off - actually, one of them might have been a story in the last Parker pages. People had theorized that the low pressure load was resulting in low penetration at longer distances, but for all I really know the hunter had tried to shoot the turkey while it was in a tuck and had simply missed the head. Or maybe they didn't even shoot at the head. I have a rule to never shoot at a turkey when he is in a tucked position. You can roll the turkey but miss the head. Up they'll jump and run off. I try to shoot when his head is up and neck stretched. If you do that and they still run off then you probably missed him.