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I just bought a Browning Model 53 .32-20 and am thinking this might make a dandy Turkey gun. Does anyone use an iron sighted rifle for Turkeys?

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I also use a Browning 32-20 model 53 for the fall season in Pa.May try a Model 55 Win in 25-35 and cast bullets this fall though. I won't use a Deer rifle or any gun with a scope or a shotgun.

I’ve long been intending to build a martini cadet in 32 H&R to shoot cast bullets for turkeys and such.

Until then I just use a 17 rem, 222 mag, or 223.

Killed dozens of turkey with rifles... My favorite, but never with open sights... The 32-20 was a highly regarded turkey rifle when I was a kid.. Scopes were not common then,but neither were turkeys.. Sounds like a fun deal.. Far more sporting than a shotgun... Enjoy!!

Kid, the old .222 is a great turkey rifle... Not as much zip as the rifles you mention, but enough.. But the .223 works well, never tried the other two.

The only turkeys I've shot with a rifle were incidental to other things. I've shot them with a 223, 6mm Rem, 300 Savage,and 7mm/08. I've been able to shoot them in the neck where it joins the body so little loss of meat.

If I went to hunt specifically turkeys with a rifle, my first choice would be a Savage 99 I rebarreled to 219 Zipper. It does not have sights so would have to use a scope. Iron sighted guns would be Savage 1899s in 22 Savage, 25/35, or 38/55 or a Remington Model 8 in 25 Rem. An M1 Carbine would be another interesting option as would a Winchester 1905 or 1907.

81, some cool guns there.. I shot one with my .25-35, but it was scoped.. Killed several with the ,243 and one with my .270.. All exciting... My uncles shot them with their deer rifles, but there was no spring season in Pa. in those days.. Only a fall season.. the .300 Sav. and 06 did a fine job..

22 Hornet makes a great turkey caliber in a rifle .

If MN allowed it...

My dads model 43 22 hornet would be mine.

Here in Colorado, fall turkeys may be taken with rifles.
This coming fall, my new CZ 527, in .22 Hornet, will get used.

I have shot them with every kind of rifle imaginable, most recently with a Sharps 1877 in 45-70...

If you haven't yet, you need to take one with one of your Beretta CX-4s. All I've shot with mine was a coyote in the back yard. I still don't know which my wife is more angry about- the hole in the screen, the ding in the wall where the empty hit, or that the brass then hit her in the head. She has not given me the green light to shoot pests from the bedroom since.

We must be brothers. I wasn't as bad as that, but we had some Hungarian partridges in the driveway when I was going to work one morning. I got my shotgun and opened the door and shot from within the house so as to not wake up the neighbors. Of course it woke up my wife and kids, but I had to get to work, so I put the 2 Huns on the kitchen table for Diane to clean so I wouldn't be late for work...

every turkey I ever shot was with my 22 hornet. 45 gr. nosler hornet bull. first was 21#6 oz. love that mod. 70 !!!

I shot a Rio in Texas 3 years ago with a .17WSM. It preformed well .

Shotguns only allowed for turkeys in NH but NHF&G confirmed that combo guns may be used as long as the rifle barrel in only used for other critters (coyotes).

I have killed turkeys with .222 Rem and .223 Rem but I always thought that a .22 Hornet would be the ideal turkey cartridge......Hb

I hunted with a Winchester 65 in 218 Bee bck in the 70's.

.22 Hornet

Never hunted them with a rifle, but watched some friends kill them with 223s. Really not a lot of sport in my view and often a lot of meat loss.
If I were to rifle hunt them, i would use a 22 hornet.