Win new turkey loads
 

Just took a shot at 40 yards with my Remington 870 SM with one of the new turkey loads from winchester... 3.5" #5's and I'll say right now there the best patterning lead turkey loads I have ever pattern out of my gun!!!

Got right at 20 hits in the vitals( skull/neck vertebra) on a Primos turkey target

This info might not be worth a crap to most of you guys because the pattern wasn't shot at a 10" circle... Sorry ;)

But I'm sold!!! Just ordered another box :cool2:

Thanks for the info. I'm on the fence about buying some. I have been using the Magblend for the past two seasons.

well I doubt it will pattern better than the shells your shooting but if your wanting to save a couple bucks and don't mind shooting lead turkey loads then there definetly the way to go!!!

That's good how does it do at various other yards and what is your max distance?

Patterns do vary from 10 to 40. I have seen it with a few loads especially Duplex loads as at one range you have a Hole in your pattern. Hey Just askin....


me I use Winchester Supreme and bought quite a few boxes. 10 in a box equals 10 birds so it will be a while before I redo......

However I am in need of another dedicated gun and am thinking of dropping to a 20. They make them in 20? Need to do a search

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Well I shot them threw a kicks gt .665... I only shot at 40 yards... I've patterned a lot of shells and I know 5 yards makes a big difference... But I'm confident they will kill at 45-50 yards... Once the weather breaks I'm going to shoot 20 and 50 yards... They did seem to pattern a little high...

I'm going to pick up a box next week and try them out. They look impressive!

Thanks LB - I am interested at the closer ranges. I did a bit of a search and am interested and they even seem to have a 20 ga load.

Lately I place a stick in the ground at a given range - if I can't said bird to point to stick at point A - it walks. Makes it way more fun and way more frustrating. But the kill is of little importance.

And that is just me.....
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Im not quite there just yet lol... I will be taking Prozac by 1st week in may if I haven't went up side a gobblers head :happy0157:

Have you ever tried taking a gobbler with a bow yet??? Sounds like your ready :)

Yea I'm getting a warm and fuzzy too lol... Got some extra vac time this year so I'm hopin for a good season!!!

I took a box of the xtended range 3 inch number 5 and a box of the new longbeards 3 inch number 5's to a field this weekend to see how they stacked up. I usually never take 40 yard shots but thats where I compared them. Using a turkey target both loads would of easily of killed the bird. But the hit count using the longbirds were consistently much higher then the xtended range. I was impressed to say the least. I spent months last year trying to track down some xtended range shells since winchester was discontinuing them. I do think winchester has made a very decent replacement product for them tho.

yea they definitely put a lot more pellets on target than traditional lead turkey loads but I hope that people don't for get there still lead turkey loads and I hope we still try to keep our shots 50 yards and under...

Nice, which new Win loads are they (could you take a pic of the box)?

I dont have a picture but they are called Longbeards. I thought the same thing about them being lead, I cant see somebody taking a 60 yard shot with them. I took a few 50 yard shots and my pellet count on turkey targets started to show wounded turkeys in the mix of dead ones. At 40 though my old shotgun loves them. I thought the xtended range shells were the best out there but these are pretty impressive.I wonder how much energy is in each pellet at 60 yards, tungsten vs lead.

That's the new shell for the season. Everybody is talking about them and how good they pattern.:s1:

outdoor life did test in the winchester long beards vs standard winchester turkey shells in there Feb 2014 issue. at 70 yards they had 56 pellets of number 6 in a 10" circle. they where using a Mossberg 835 with xx full choke and 18" barrel. they had 1 3/4" penetration in the ballistic gel.

How does that 1.75" gel penetration translate into a thick mat of turkey feathers?

Don't hit him in the feathers.... :s2: . Hit him in that ugly head!

I've pulled all my Winchester supremes from my vest and replaced them with #4 Long Beards. They shoot excellent out of my 870 and Pure Gold .670 choke. Nearly twice the pellets in a 12" diameter circle at 40 yds. I agree they probably won't have the energy to consistently kill at 60 yds, but I'm not planning on taking that long of a shot anyways. I'm still going to shoot one more shell before the season comes in, at about 15 yds and see what it looks like. These are great shells.

i seen this thread and i thought. HOLY LORD!!!!! I IS GONNA WIN NEW TURKEY LOADS!!!!! turns out thats not what it meant:sad0064: