turkey choke
02-11-2013, 11:06 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pine Hill Alabama USA
Posts: 1,280
Guns? You turkey hunt with a gun? You should be carrying nothing more than a 4 foot long stick into the turkey woods. If you can't call them into the range of a 4 foot stick then I'm sorry but you obviously aren't much of a turkey hunter.
See how stupid that (poor language ~ Edited by JW) sounds. Nothing wrong with setting up a gun that will kill turkeys on out there as long as you pattern it and know it's lethal killing range from both a pattern and penetration standpoint.
Last edited by JW; 02-12-2013 at 05:04 AM. Reason: language
02-11-2013, 12:23 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Yantis, TX
Posts: 287
And therein lies the problem. Sure, you can set-up a gun that can kill turkeys out to 60 and 70 yards reliably...but do you realize how tight that pattern is at 30-40 yards? How about 20 yards?...about the size of a softball. Be off an inch, or the turkey moves his head and you whiff completely..or worse, cripple a bird. There's no easy answer.
A good, consistent, even pattern at 40 yards is an excellent measure of a turkey guns capability. Going either direction begins to limit its overall effectiveness at specific ranges.
Gman
02-11-2013, 08:08 PM
#16
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location:
Posts: 5,130
Guns? You turkey hunt with a gun? You should be carrying nothing more than a 4 foot long stick into the turkey woods. If you can't call them into the range of a 4 foot stick then I'm sorry but you obviously aren't much of a turkey hunter.
See how stupid that ******* sounds. Nothing wrong with setting up a gun that will kill turkeys on out there as long as you pattern it and know it's lethal killing range from both a pattern and penetration standpoint.
See how stupid that ******* sounds. Nothing wrong with setting up a gun that will kill turkeys on out there as long as you pattern it and know it's lethal killing range from both a pattern and penetration standpoint.
Todd,
How does this one sound then; shoot them with the best "turkey" shotgun you got........Oh yea I almost forgot, "dead bird".
Last edited by Sheridan; 02-12-2013 at 09:30 AM.
02-11-2013, 08:15 PM
#17
Spike
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Alabama
Posts: 24
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I agree to a point. I think if you got a long range 50 to 60 yard killer that shoots a very small pattern at 20 yards IMO you really need a scope. Then you could make them close shots count as well as the long ones.
I agree to a point. I think if you got a long range 50 to 60 yard killer that shoots a very small pattern at 20 yards IMO you really need a scope. Then you could make them close shots count as well as the long ones.
