ORIGINAL: Mr. Longbeard
I read more and more about the so called 60 yard shot... 60 yards is a long way off... I just cant see those #6 hevi shot pellets having enough energy at 60 yards to get the job done... I might buy 50 yards, but 60... I wish someone could come on hear with some good concrete evidence that hevi13 #6 pellets had enough energy at 60 yards to ethicly kill turkey's...
They do, and will.
I wrote a long reply in another threadabout my experience wtih Hevi-13 and Nitro loads.
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=3357885&mpage=3&key=
I made a mistake and mis-estimated the range on a gobbler in a field edge.Itwas the first year using a scope and the bid obviously looked bigger at 1.75 X through that scope. I don't hunt fields much and estimating range is more difficult obviously. I killed him cleanly at 63 yards (laser-measured later) with the Nitro 4X5X7, 3.5", 2.25 oz load. He didn't even flop. Took another bird cleanly last seasonthat hung up at 49 yards.
That triplex load I'm shooting is mostly #7 shot. They will flat do the job. I think most folks are biased against using #7 shot because they equate it with light lead loads (7 1/2) used in upland game hunting. Number 7 hevishot is a completely different deal. You are hitting that birds head with so many pellets, that's one thing. They are obviously more dense and harder, so they don't flatten out like lead does and they carry more kinetic energy downrange (E = M X V2). They penetrate better than lead because of this (harder, denser, more energy, more pellets).
When I run out of the triplex loads I am switching to straight 7s. I am completely sold on it.