The Tungsten Super Shot (TSS) in vintage guns test concluded today. I carried a 12 VHE for two weeks, and being superstitious having missed one that sneaked up on me and took to flight and another that a metal gate caught most of my shot I went to a modern gun for the first turkey.
I then switched to a 1927 32” DH 12 Parker and on a turkey that I had been after at least twenty times I finally connected when the season turned to all day hunting. I could not hunt that morning and felt obligated to go. First I forgot my camera, went home and got it and then forgot my hat. So the footage is sideways a little while as I placed my camera on my gun monopole and forgot it was on there sideways. He came to five steps and I waited for an opening and like a dummy did not shoot, but he stopped behind a tree and I thought the game was over. He chased away the jakes and at twenty-five yards with a modified right barrel he went down to 1 ¼ ounces of TSS 9s. That did not prove much, but dead anyway.
For number three I switched to a 12 gauge 1910 A Grade Fox. I held the Fox up for nearly an hour waiting for the fly-down. I hoped it would be right in front of me as I was within thirty yards of his tree. He flew down to over fifty yards and I had been thinking right barrel and modified. I chose the wrong barrel but if there was any doubt about TSS, he went down at over fifty yards with only a .020 modified choke to number 9s. The autopsy revealed only a few hits but a bloody mess inside where the shot went from one side to the other. Any other shell in a modified at that distance would have meant failure. I can see no sign of barrel damage due to essentially double wadding with mylar wrapper inside the shot cup.
Videos are Parker, Fox, and the modern Franchi at about forty-five yards. None are long videos since I have learned to cut the camera off after a while of constant calling and gobbling.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzy9__cs7xQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQUm...ature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bewA4Oxtkk