A .17 will take a turkey down, but there is nothing better than taking one with a shotgun from 20 yards away. Everytime I have a gobbler running in to me, it seems like my heart is about to jump out of my chest. My father-in-law shoot two nice sized jakes a week before thanksgiving. He body shot them and we didn't have any big messes when cleaning the birds for the thanksgiving meal
. He did have to walk up on one and shot it again becuase it was not completely dead.