Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting Let's see those magic fAiry dust patterns.

Why would you want to hear about it, you don't want to shoot it, you believe what you read on the internet except form people that use it and know? You believe wife's tails with out first hand experience yourself and you have been told over and over again differently that what you believe. So once again why would you want to hear anything about first hand experience could tell you?

Prove me wrong

Your mind is made up so why would I try.

Choking is not that critical with the Winchester Longbeards either......

I suspect I've done more testing with the Longbeard ammo than you have with the TSS....why because no one can afford to shoot a few hundred rounds of TSS

What I have noticed about TSS is that a lot of guys are shooting hummingbird patterns out of a vast array of choke tubes....

That's why I said "choking with TSS is not that critical".....the why is because of the shear number of little pellets.

Why is the choking with Winchester longeards not that critical.....I think it's because of the liquid buffer.

I'll never shoot #9 pellets because I value my meat and my teeth.

I would suspect you are wrong on how much TSS I have shot and patterned over the years. Once again speaking about something you know nothing about.

So you're saying its a disadvantage because it patterns easy? And you don't have to spend time and money chasing shells and chokes?

Jeez, seems like a win/win to me.

It's a win win for ammo makers and choke tube manufacturers

You're literally contradicting your previous statement.

Buying less shells and less chokes is better for the end user, no?

That's not what i meant.

What I meant was Federal couldn't compete with Winchester with large shot so they took the fairy dust dive....

Lots of choke tube manufactures would be long out of business if they had to make a choke tube that would pattern with conventional shot.

Hunting and patterning with Winchester longbeards I'd think it fair to say I've shot 200 to 250 rds maybe more....

You'd need to get a loan on your house to shoot that many rounds of TSS.

That's admirable and a lotta hard work and dedication. But I coulda saved you a WHOLE lotta time and money.

If any given 12 gauge won't pattern a Longbeard XR with an Indian Creek Black Diamond Strike, drive it into the ground and have a tomato stake.

Only if you are buying factory shells, but yes I have shot a lot of TSS but not a single factory shell. I was shooting so much that I built a shot trap. I quit all that stuff, I have only 2 turkey guns now instead of a whole vault full. I know what my guns like and what chokes they like so I don't shoot but a shell or two before season starts to make sure everything is good, and then what I shoot hunting.

I have over 30 lbs of TSS sitting in my reloading room now.

30 pounds of TSS...you're either rich or full of it.

Well forgive me for not having to guess what TSS will and will not do, but thank you for questioning me as it make me go dig the TSS out. In doing so, I found another 9 lbs that I had forgotten about, There is (2) 9# bottles and (2) 11# bottles so that is 40 lbs plus about a pound that did not make the photo shoot. I have a lifetime supply of hulls and wads as well.
Care to guess some more?

That's about $1300 worth of shot at today's prices. Not hard to accumulate that kind of stash over time. I suspect a lot of people have way more money tied up in their ammo stashes than that.

Snap snap pullit! Our local turkey hunting forum troll will be by shortly

All that shot and nair a picture of a pattern.

You got the little shot syndrome really bad....what you shoot with TSS #11 shot ?

Let me guess Horse flies. 🐎

Can you see that little feller sitting next to that #4 lead....

That is 11 lbs not #11 shot, you really are grasping at straws.
Once I figured out what my guns like and wanted, I quit counting holes and quit taking pictures. That was several years back.

I have to admit to spending hours shooting boring bees with my Daisey BB gun, I'm not sure the model but its a replica of a model 94 Winchester, In one of Capsticks books he talked of a fellow PH standing at Victoria falls shooting some sort of Storks with a large caliber double rifle, just for practice, he stated that the misses were few and far between.