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Not trying to stir things up but here goes, been turkey hunting only once in my life and just found out that it is legal to use a rifle in my county for turkey. With that being said, would a 17 HMR do the trick with a shot to the breast. They say the best part is calling in the turkey close but I like rifle hunting and figure this way I could take one out to a 100 yards.

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If you're going to use a rifle I wouldn'taim forthe breast.[:'(] You would ruin most of the meat and make a BIG mess of things.[:'(]IMO

I would try to aim for the head. No mess, and no tracking required...;)IMO

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We just had this discussion here on this thread and even had mention of this gun. Check out what was said about it here >>---> http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=2447022

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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.

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I guess long range shooting (100 or over and only whacking at the head)with a lite caliber - that would be fun!

Just - IMO

JW

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I would not recomend a 17 HMR for turkeys unless you were strickly aiming for head or neck;)I body shot a gobbler with a 22 mag a few years back and the bird just took to the air and soored off a big ridge and glided out of sight:(Learned my lesson and will never do that again... If your that desperate to kill a turkey, use a high powered rifle;)

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Ya,and if your not that desperate to kill one and that worried about the meat than just go to Safeway and buy a butterball its whole lot safer!!!!IMHO;)

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Long time no see... How you be???

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There is no fun or excitment inshooting a turkey with a rifle...To me the allure of the sport is going one on one with a tom...Using my woodsmenship to find the best set up, listening to him gobble as Icall him in close and make a good clean kill with ashotgun loadto the head...Aftermore then20 years of doing this I still get a rush of adrenillin and shake like a leaf...That's turkey hunting...;)

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I think with a head or neck shot you would kill it but with that small of gun a breast shot would be a very low percentage kill unless you hit the heart. The turkey will eventually die but you probably wont find it.
I would use a shotgun unless I could shootlike Annie Oakley.