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Thats how we do it too. Damn fine eating
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Shotgun only on turkey here, unfortunately. If they did allow rifle, I'd use my Henry BBS carbine with 32 S&W Long loads.
That's been my go-to squirrel popper for the past couple seasons... DRT short range performance without obliterating the game. Subsonic, so it doesn't blow your eardrums out, either.
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Have shot turkey with everything from a 50 cal muzzle loader to a 30-06 down to a 22lr a 223 is perfect harmony for drop on the spot little meat damage aim for the wing bone
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No rifles here, unfortunately.
We had a fall season here in the late 80's. IIRC they allowed hens or gobblers during that two weeks before Thanksgiving. But it was shotgun or archery only.
That may have been the only fall season we've had, and they're thicker than pigeons here now. Even a .17 HMR would work I'd think. Never quite understood the rationale behind not allowing a limited rifle season in the fall on private land.
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It is called the Wild Turkey Federation.. [bleep]..
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He has abook called The American Wild Turkey.. Very hard to find and very costly and full of information on turkeys.. Much of what the old timers did has been cast in a negative light by the Wild Turkey Fed.. The old timers felt only a dirt bag would kill a gobbler during mating season.. But they were hunters.. Hunting turkey like other game.. Not using its weakest time to kill them and think they have done something great... Landis’ book “Hunting with the Twenty Two” has a chapter on turkey hunting with rifles by Davis. A really interesting read. He was a fan of the Hornet if I remember right. A lot of knowledge was lost when the old timers were gone.
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Fall turkeys get shot with whatever I happen to be deer hunting with when I hear a turkey and decide to change plans. So far .30-06 and .243.
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lfc: "I" am a Turkey Hunter and "I" consider it "Hunting" when I harvest a Turkey with a RifleI It's legal, ethical and efficient - and it saves meat. Plus I feel the Wild Turkeys are kill't quicker when properly shot/hit with a Rifles bullet than with shot. In fact I much prefer to shoot them with a Rifle as to filling up the edible meat parts with shot and bloodshot channels! I have neck shot Wild Turkeys with Rifles in 22 L.R., 22 Magnum, 17 HMR and 17 Fireball to date. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy
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nothing pisses off a WTF than using a rifle or a bow . to make them pull there hair out use a crossbow on a Oseola in FL
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Killed a big gobbler this morning one shot 6mm!!
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Killed a big gobbler this morning one shot 6mm!!
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good deal , WyoCoyotehunter
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Got my Dad his first turkey this morning! He used the .260 rem that I shot my first deer with. Also the first time one of my hand loads has drawn blood. great morning!
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You do you, but I am NOT shooting a turkey with a rifle. PERIOD. The whole reason for me to turkey hunt is to be able to match him on his own terms and get him to within 40 yds. If he doesn't want to play the game he gets to live another day.
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If you were a real hunter, you would match wits and shoot your turkey with a rifle.. Then you have done something. At 40 yards and with a shotgun it is pure murder.
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