Minnesota roosters
 

I bagged a couple of nice roosters on my SW Minnesota farm today with my 28 Parker Repro. It was the first time I was able to try my hand loaded TPS shot in #9’s. I had 7/8oz loads at 1350 FPS. They did the trick.

Matt,

Excellent! Wild pheasants are always a trophy, and with a 28, even more so.

As they say in the corporate world: keep up the good work!

PS. Thanks for posting! I really enjoy seeing the accounts of member's hunts.

Way to go Matt!! The 28 with handload #9tps is a deadly combo. The 28 on late season birds can be just as deadly as a 12 in the right hands. Matt has only hunted wild birds mostly late season. He has never seen preserve birds which often flush closer and can be a bit slower. These are hard flying birds with some age on them judging from the spurs and tail feather length

Correction!! Meant to say TSS shot not Tps.

I meant TSS as well, tungsten super shot. At 18 on the hardness scale it is amazing stuff, especially for the turkey hunter.

Matt: I notice a few more birds now that the corn is out. Great shooting by the way.Thomas

I've read the TSS #9s hit with the same force as lead #5s -- have you found that to be the case?

This was my first go with the TSS shot so I don't have a lot to go by on it but both of these pheasants were in the 30-40 yard range and went down nicely so it seems to have done as good of job as if I had #5 in.

I added another rooster to the freezer today with a 15 gauge English built muzzleloader on its maiden voyage into the uplands. I loaded up the vintage smoke pole with 2 3/4 drams of black powder and 1 1/8oz #5’s. My daughter Catherine always likes to get in on a rooster picture

Good job Matt, His varied interests in double shotguns from modern repros to 137 year old 10ga parker lifters to even more ancient english muzzleloaders. He works up traditional loads for them all and hunts with them all and is successful from turkeys to ducks and geese and also pheasants. It is a pleasure to watch his interests grow and his success increase. Keep it up Matt it keeps us old guys young.