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Gee,Askins called killing turkeys with a shotgun nothing short of murder.. No skill involved what so ever.. Now if you call one and kill it with a rifle you have done something... I have shot them both ways.. Killing one with a shotgun is about as exciting as shooting a beer can off a fence with a shotgun..
Those are some mighty fine looking rifles there..
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10/4 guys, I don't think I've shot a turk with a shotgun since 2001. I do like going full "Alvin York" on them. Spring-time is the most fun as they are much more vocal and lookin' for luv' in all the wrong places. I've been hunting the lease I'm on now for about 12 years now. I'm there quite a bit and have come to know the areas they frequent. I'll cruise around on my 4-wheeler and stop every couple hundred yards and try various calls. Rather than try to call them in I will put a sneak on them, cutting, clucking or whatever seeems to get the most response. What's fun is to use the Riihimaki with the 45 gr. triple shocks. Its pretty much good to 200 yds. Catch a bunch together and they never new what hit them. As to poppin' them in the noggin, well, I guess you could say I'm an 80%er. I'm not a good enough shot to do that at ranges over 100yds. My favorite shot is to aim for their "craw", or just above the junction of the neck and breast. It's a high percentage shot, and if you do it right, you don't waste any meat. definitely don't want to waste any wild turkey. LOL If your elevated and they are walking away its a good shot and if they're facing you with their head up, likewise. Like porkers, it seems their heads are never in the same place long. Best, GWB
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great looking guns geedubya.
All the best. GRF
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It isn't as much fun without some 'flip factor.'
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I'll vote as well on rifle turkeys... In this case, through the wing butts, at 120 yards... oh yeah, .270
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geedubya: don't let them give you schitt about the turkey/rifle thing. geedubya - I say DITTO to what ingwe says. I appreciate nice, fine, good looking weapons of which you've gottem. I also appreciate the fact that you shoot things beside your mouth!! AND you back it up with pics!!
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In the punkin head...
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I wish we could use a rifle! Jealous!
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I wish we could use a rifle! (legally) Jealous! There! I fixed it for ya.
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This is funny how times have changed.. Years ago the rifle was the weapon of choice in many states.. Az. at one time required the use of a rifle for turkey hunting.. Shotguns were not permitted. Now it is reversed.. Simply a case of a few vocal people making everyone do things their way..
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I loaned my Ruger 17HMR to a friend who has a farm locally, as he was wanting to play with one before purchasing one....
His 15 year old kid got a hold of it when he saw a flock of turkeys running across their property.. climbed up in the barn loft, and with 10 shots, had 10 dead turkeys....
so a shotgun seems a little overkill to say the least....
use to be tons of them in my little area, but the coyotes put a major dent in that....
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...and kids shooting ten at a time.
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Gee,Askins called killing turkeys with a shotgun nothing short of murder.. No skill involved what so ever.. Now if you call one and kill it with a rifle you have done something... I have shot them both ways.. Killing one with a shotgun is about as exciting as shooting a beer can off a fence with a shotgun..
Those are some mighty fine looking rifles there.. Kill a couple with a bow, then get back to me. I've killed them with shotgun, rifle and archery. Archery is definitely the toughest, IME.
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Logically, archery should be the toughest......
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Logically, archery should be the toughest...... Yea, yea. Actually I've killed several with a .270win.
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Cool! Then a .270 IS good for something! I've been told they bounce off deer........
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Cool! Then a .270 IS good for something! I've been told they bounce off deer........ You know better! You said that rainbow-stocked .270 you wouldn't sell me was deadly on deer.
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Cool! Then a .270 IS good for something! I've been told they bounce off deer........ since when do you listen to Democrats?
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Kill a couple with a bow, then get back to me. I've killed them with shotgun, rifle and archery. Archery is definitely the toughest, IME.
Although I'm a dyed in the wool rifle slut, I've done my share of hunting with stick bow as a boy, as well as compound bow and also cross bow as an adult. IMHO, bow-hunting makes one a much more patient rifle hunter. With a bow at 18 to 23 yds, its 95 degrees out and your in nothing but shorts in leafywear cammo that does not breathe, your dripping wet with sweat and stink and the gnats and no-seeums are driving you insane, deer can sense you as well as smell you. and coming to full draw on a longbeard when there are a dozen pairs of eyes fuggeddaboudit. and old does, they wind ya', stamp, blow and you're busted. but I do get some shots with a camera that I might not otherwise get. That I do like.... So unless my daughter surprises me with twin grandsons on opening weekend of bow season, you know where I'll be come October 3rd. Best, GWB
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