My only take-away from this whole post was that you shot a turkey with a .300 H&H! Damn!
(Ok, not my only take-away, but still... damn!)
I've shot turkey with numerous different center-fire rifles
IIRC I was hunting hogs at the Canopy!
This turkey was a target of opportunity @ +/- 175 yds., IIRC
Not good enough to shoot him in the eye-ball but what the hey, it was in season, so I took it!
ya!
GWB