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IMO, shooting a turkey at 300 yards doesn't require any skill other than with a pair of binoculars. While I prefer a rifle and would still use a .22-250 if the occasion warranted, a big part of the enjoyment of spring turkey is calling those toms in and watching them strut before you toast them at 25 yards or less.
.223 is proving a bit much for them in my experience, though. .22-250 even more so I'd suspect. Don't know about something in the range of the .221 Fireball, but have considered a .22 Hornet myself.
Well what about deer and elk hunting?You do the same thing,do you carry a pair of binoculars when deer hunting?Most people do and you sit in the edge of a field and wait for them to come out and if they come out you look at them through your binos and pickone out and then BANG FLOP!You have a dead deer.So,turkey hunting with a rifle takes just as much skill as deer hunting with a rifle takes.