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Originally Posted by charlie cleveland
no 2 is the biggest shot we can use too..not many years back we could use a rifle or even buckshot...my favorite shot size was bb and no 2...used a rifle some but never got to kill one with a rifle...my scope got knocked outa specks once missed turkey at about 40 steps turkey flew into a tree about 100 steps wind was blowing hard I shot up nearly abox of shells...was shooting a 222 Remington....my dad came up and wanted to know what I was shooting so much about that time turkey flew outa off the tree...got home shot the rifle it was shooting about 4 feet off....charlie
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Charlie you sound like my uncle haha he has to re-zero his rifle every few weeks, I use a Wheeler fat wrench for mounting mine and it comes in handy. I cant say I ever had any scope problems but I only use Leupolds as well. If I got a Florida hunting license I could drive 10 minutes over into Florida and shoot turkeys with a rifle. I would think something like a 22 WMR would work for turkey shoot them in the base of the neck is what I have heard not sure if a rimfire is allowed though.
I think our local turkey population may be done for though, had a few farmers say they believe the hurricane back in 2018 destroyed most the nests and habitat as they havnt seen many if any since then.