Parker 10 harvests turkey in Mn
 

My 137 year old Parker 10 speaks the truth again with 2 5/8” brass loaded with 1 3/4 oz of # 5’s at 25 yards. The Tom weighed 20.68 lbs , 10 3/4” beard and 1” spurs.

Matt, Did you use black powder? What load did you use?

Nice one Matt!




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really nice turkey and taken with a 10 ga it dont get any better.....charlie

I used 4 1/2 drams of FFg powder behind 1 3/4 oz of # 5’s. That fills the short 10 brass to the top.

that load is a good one did you have to wait till the smoke cleared before you knowed you got him...charlie

Matt is one of our younger members,30's. He has taken the time to work up the load for this old 10 to be sure pressures with shot and powder balance. He took this bird late in our MN season when most hunters have long since given up. He has also become a fine double gun shooter not only with Parkers but other fine doubles.
Good job Matt, you should be proud of your accomplishment.

Beautiful bird Matt. That makes at least two birds taken with 10ga Parker's in MN this spring as I also was fortunate to take a Tom also. I took mine on April 26 in Lake City. 23 lbs 10oz using RST 1 1/4oz #6 loads. I will see if I can load a picture later. I am just replying to the post on my phone and I don't see a way to post a picture directly from the photo gallery on my phone.

Bob, it can be done just about the same way you load up pictures from your picture file on your PC.





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Dean it looks like my pictures are about 540 KB each and it says the max jpg size is 488 so what would I need to do to downsize them slightly to get them to be accepted?
Thanks

I patterned some of those RST 1 1/4oz loads and I was impressed but I still like being able to shoot what the gun was built for. Good job on the big Tom from Lake City. I could tell I killed the bird through the smoke but it is an awesome sight to see the flash from the black powder against the dark feathers of the turkey.

Try cropping them without losing too much of the subject matter.





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Here are some pictures of my MN bird.

Great pictures!!

In your first picture... Is that considered "baiting"? :rotf:





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Dean, shhhh, you'll give out my secret:)

QUOTE=Dean Romig;274775]Great pictures!!

In your first picture... Is that considered "baiting"? :rotf:





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I love that straight grip on that 10.

I think if you email them to yourself that will reduce the file size. I am sure there are easier ways but I heard this would do it too

I need to find the thread on putting some age on the new rubber pad though.

Just use it.

Matt: I ran into Jim in the store the other day and he showed me the Turkey you shot so word travels fast out here on the prairie. Nice bird