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Reading this thread has my shoulder hurting and my teeth wanting something to bite into in order to help cushion the blow.

Freakin' FedEx.

I ordered some Remington Premier Magnum Turkey shells from Mack's Prairie Wings. I got a message from Mack's a couple of weeks ago telling me they shipped and that I should have them on June 26. They gave me a Fedex tracking number. June 26 rolled around and I didn't get them so I checked FedEx and their site said they hadn't even been picked up yet from Mack's. I contacted Mack's and immediately got a reply that they would send out a replacement order and start a claim with FedEx. Today, I get both orders. The original FedEx tracking number is still not updated.

Now I've got to send an order back. Or decide if i just want Mack's to charge me for the second order.

FedEx sucks. Mack's Prairie Wings is awesome.

FedEx is the Dollar General of shipping options.

Sometimes you really DO get what you pay for. Sucks that you gotta go through the riggamaroll.

Back from my trip. Will be getting out putting the new 10 through its paces. Just a reminder of there things stand.

.30-05 versus 10 gauge




Turkey hunters are a strange lot. Some complain about recoil from a centerfire at the bench but we're perfectly content shooting 20 rounds through a shotgun that recoils like an elephant gun.

Looking at that makes my shoulder hurt....

.30-05. That's older than the .30-06.

This is the one I dread shooting. Just a hair under 2 oz of shot at 1,450 fps. That's 240-350 FPS faster than standard buckshot loads. This one does literally hurt.

I don't know that I am that pissed off ant anything....lol

try some Nitro Ammunition, 12 ga. 3.5" turkey loads, 2 5/8's oz. of TSS. they will kick the lard out of grandma's homemade bisquits.

The Remington SP10 I had wasn't bad to shoot. It's weight, and gas operated action softened it up a lot. The BPS and Nova 12ga 3-1/2" guns, different animals. The Pedersoli 10ga muzzlelaoding SxS was anything I wanted it to be. Only 12ga I have anymore is a first gen Winchester 101 trap gun with a 34" top single barrel. Everything hunting now is with a 20ga. 10Glocks, more power to you and enjoy!

I still haven't fired it. Will probably wait a couple weeks. I've accumulated some 10 gauge turkey and deer ammo. The Remington Premier Magnum 3 1/2", 2 1/4 oz, 1,210 fps load should be a good thumper. Out of that BPS it's going to produce somthing like 62 ft lbs of recoil. More than the .458 Win Mag and in the range of the .416 Rigby. 2.6 times as much recoil as my .300 Win Mag. Can't wait.

IIRC I have shot 6 gobblers with the Remington 2 1/4 oz #4 copper plated. BPS 24” with factory turkey choke. Nothing further than maybe 35 yds or so. But none flopped. One wiggled. One was 17 steps away in a sapling filled stream bottom and I shot a 1” sapling in half at 8 ? steps before the load got to him. I’ve only taken one other with the gun and that was the same weight load but #5 in Winchester. 49 steps and he flopped half his feathers off before I could get a boot in his neck. But son shot a black coyote broadside running with those winchesters at 15 or 20 yards. Dead right now and hide looked like he’d been rolling in a fire ant bed.

Only 10ga I'd think about getting back into, would be another SxS muzzleloader. Really enjoyed the years I used my first one. But that would definitely be a nostalgic decision, and not a performance decision. But, there is a nice BPS 10ga on the rack at the gun store I go to... I'm not just a rifle looney! Lol!

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Lol! I'm SO computer adept!

You are computer adept. You just posted a picture of a #10 TSS shot pellet.

I wouldn't carry that thing for turkey or deer if you paid me. If it was given to me I'd sell it and buy something useful. I'm glad my days of hucking shotgun slugs of any gauge at deer are behind me.

Unintentionally maybe! Lol!

Because I could, I used to cast lead round balls for the 10ga ML SxS shotgun. Never got on a deer with them, but the range I go to told me had had to stop using them on the steel gong plates. They hit the plate hard enough to break the frame they hung on. In their defense, the frames were made more for cap n ball revolvers than the stuff I was using...

I don't see the advantage of using loads that kick the sh*t out of you. 1 5/8 to 1 7/8 oz at 1300 to 1350fps in my BPS or AyA Matador ll 10 ga are very effective on flying birds. Maybe those folded wings on standing birds are Armour plating?...mb

When I had a place to hunt turkeys, I used
a 10ga with the Winchester Supreme black
box 3 1/2 " 2 1/4 ounces of #6 shot.
That's what worked the best out of trying
Winchester, Federal, and Remington in the
different shot sizes and payloads
It would make roadkill out of a turkey head.

No place to go these days without paying
out the wazzoo