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Old 09-19-2006 | 09:02 PM
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Default Muzzleloaders for turkey?

Haveany of you used a ML for trukey?
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Old 09-19-2006 | 09:03 PM
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Default RE: Muzzleloaders for turkey?

I mean 'turkey', sorry.
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Old 09-20-2006 | 01:02 PM
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I have...back about 1979 I called in a gobbler in VA with a wing bone call I made and killed him with my Bob Watt's custom .45 flintlock.
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Old 09-20-2006 | 01:23 PM
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Two for me so far, both with my CVA 'Kenturkey' rifle kit gun, .45.

I was using home-cast TC maxi's over a medium load load of loose Pyro P.
I aim for where the neck meets the shoulders (don't trust myself for pure headshots, not enough practice I reckon!).

Longest shot was right at 50 paces.

Gettin' your gobbler "pilgrim-style" is alot of fun!

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Old 09-20-2006 | 01:56 PM
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Two gobblers have fallen to my White Tominator. With the .665" choke it patterns as good as my cartidge 12 gauge.
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Old 09-20-2006 | 03:40 PM
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I use a .62 caliber smoothbore percussion lock rifle made by Green Mountain Barrel Co. I load 80 grains of Goex 2f, then a over the powder wad. After that I use a fiber wad and on that load 100 grains of #6 shot. After that I use two over the shot cards. This is a good combination to 25 yards for me. Although the turkey would not cooperate the first time out and then due to a illness, I missed the last season...
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