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It's not that hard. I hit a bird in January at 41-42 yards in January with a load of TSS #7 and had only a single pellet below the neck, and that went across the top of the back right where it meets the neck. Otherwise, all the pellets that hit entered the neck and head.


Many? No one could "consistently" hit a turkey's head with a rifle at any distance. Heads are small and almost always in motion - always bobbing and weaving up and down and side to side. That's why you use a shotgun. You don't use a rifle to grouse hunt, do you? If you hunt turkeys with a rifle, a body shot, broadside, mid body, high on the wind will drop one with very little meat damage. A body shot on a turkey with a shotgun will damage lots of edible meat and will leave pellets in the body, unless you're using shot big and heavy enough to pass through, or at least stop at a bone. And shot also bloodshots the meat. Even little pellets will leave a bloodshot trail as it passes through.