TSS Shot

[Double Lab]

Steve,
I know this a bit off topic but forget the high tech payloads and work up a good lead load. Millions of birds have been harvested the good old way....with lead. Enjoy it while you can. Good luck and just stay still.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

Steve,
I know this a bit off topic but forget the high tech payloads and work up a good lead load. Millions of birds have been harvested the good old way....with lead. Enjoy it while you can. Good luck and just stay still.

That’s true, but I can easily one shot kill a bird hanging up at 80 yards with #8 TSS. Can’t do that with lead #5. It’s the confidence knowing my pattern will jelly-head a bird at that distance that causes me to use TSS.

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

That’s true, but I can easily one shot kill a bird hanging up at 80 yards with #8 TSS. Can’t do that with lead #5. It’s the confidence knowing my pattern will jelly-head a bird at that distance that causes me to use TSS.

I can appreciate that and what ever works for you and your gun is fair game. I've always enjoyed the close encounters of the feathered kind. I love decoying birds in as close as possible, be they waterfowl or turkeys. Besides, where I hunt a clear 35yd shot is a long way for a strutting Tom.

[Mike of the Mountain]

Originally Posted by Daryl Corona

I can appreciate that and what ever works for you and your gun is fair game. I've always enjoyed the close encounters of the feathered kind. I love decoying birds in as close as possible, be they waterfowl or turkeys. Besides, where I hunt a clear 35yd shot is a long way for a strutting Tom.

You hunting among the phragmites??

[Double Lab]

Originally Posted by Mike Koneski

You hunting among the phragmites??

Actually I am. Edges of a swamp/wetlands bordered by mutifloral rose (cat briars) and shiny holly bushes. The only clearing is a fire trail about 5 yds wide. You'd better be ready.

[J. A. EARLY]

I just look at TSS this way. It is an insurance policy for when my bad vision, excitement, and worn out brain says 30 yards and it is actually 40, and he won't come any closer or starts to walk away. In open oak woods I see no use in having a forty yard gun with the extra full turkey choke and trying to get him to 10 or fifteen yards to miss him completely with a pattern the size of a golf ball. Been there and done that many times. They still haunt me decades later.