Talking Turkey

[mobirdhunter]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges

A testament to TSS shot. NH bird this morning with a Stevens single shot .410 using Federal #9 TSS. I killed the bird at 40 yards. He was stone dead and never moved.

Congratulations!

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by Stephen Hodges

A testament to TSS shot. NH bird this morning with a Stevens single shot .410 using Federal #9 TSS. I killed the bird at 40 yards. He was stone dead and never moved.

I had a local guy tell me last season that he’d slam dunked a gobbler at 70+ yards with a 20 gauge shooting the TSS stuff which he claimed he laser ranged before shooting and I thought he was uhm let’s say stretching the truth . But I suppose if it can be done at 40 with a 410 perhaps his 20 gauge claim was legit .

[Reggie B]

Steve that is a beautiful Tom, congrats!

[Harold Pickens]

Yea. TSS is great, killed a half dozen birds in past few years. They hit the ground dead, don't even flop. I'm a believer. Sure, I've killed probably 40 birds with lead, but TSS is amazing.

[Dean Romig]

W O W !!





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[Rick Roemer]

I talked to some duck guides on the upper Mississippi River that say tss #9 is amazing on long shot cripples. A bit too rich for my blood but I hate to see a wounded bird slip away. I’d love to try it on turkeys where you’re not firing a lot of shells. Nice looking bird

[Harold Pickens]

Rick, try it, you won't want to go back to lead.

[Chris Pope]

Beauty! Well done.

[LtCol Henderson Marriott]

April in the central west Alabama almost high hills in the early morning is a wonderful time.
No sounds but a Barred owl and a large Pillated woodpecker...sun rays catching the trees.
Then, almost a mile distant through the oak and hickory a strange almost muted gobble, then another- same bird.
Moving down toward a small field, I found a well located if not hidden spot and called to this forlorn turkey. He gobbled right back-the duel with this Eastern wild turkey was on.
No decoy or blind, just an older hunter challenged since his first gobbler at 14. ( Who says turkey hunting is not a disease?)
After more yelps and gobbling exchanged, at about 65 yards I caught movement through the wood thicket. He was definitely headed my way East to West, looking for a hen or a fight-or both. He closed still moving to 50 yards, but he was looking sharply as only an old gobbler can, and he was headed for a high bushed berm, 20 yards away. Decision time, as the berm would serve as cover for this denizen of the forest blocking shotgun #4 pellets. He was'nt coming any closer as he had made up his mind. Old gobblers get old by use of acute vision and trusting nothing until seen, preferably beyond any normal shotgun range.
But he had not figured on a 1924 Long Range LC Smith 3-in gun, or maybe a 1925 VHE
Parker 2 7/8 in shotgun with 3 in Long Beard #4s.At the shot-right barrel- he was stunned but not down or gone-standing... left barrel closed the distance**This morning it was the LC Smith and its 32 in full choke barrels that did the business at 51 yards. Longer range than I am comfortable with, but this 21 pound -10 inch bearded fine gobbler was about to leave...
almost. A noble Eastern gobbler. Maybe I can get a picture, if he will quit trying to run off with the LC Smith...

[Steve Hodges]

Well my NH turkey season ended this morning at 6:15 with my second bird with the Stevens .410. 45 yards. Fun hunt as I was hunting in big woods. White Mountain National Forest Land near where I bear bait. I have never seen another hunter there but it holds birds.