And yet ANOTHER poster who fails to read...

Seriously, this is a recurring theme on this forum. You all REALLY need to read first and post something relevant to the question at hand. If you want to talk about something else, start another thread. What you're doing gets people banned on other forums.

Let me reiterate for the intellectually-challenged: I've been temporarily relocated by the Army. All my guns except one are in Colorado. I have one rifle with me in Virginia. I'll be hunting in Virginia and have access to ONLY this one rifle. Rifle hunting turkey is legal here; I'm going to do it. My question was where to aim a .270 to avoid destroying meat.

Where my sentences short enough for you? Do I need to dumb it down some more? Seriously, I think in five pages of replies only one or two people have actually tried to answer the question. Everyone else tries to tell me how evil rifle hunting is, how it's not legal where they live (I DON'T LIVE THERE!!!), what guns I should buy (they won't let me buy a gun here or have one shipped here anyway), how bowhunting is the only way to do it, and one guy even went on a long spiel about deer hunting calibers. Then after I lay into some people about their irrelevant drivel, more people come back and do the same thing.

This group of turkey hunters is very frustrating. I'm starting to think I should stick with deer / elk / bear / antelope hunting because those folks are 10 times smarter!!!