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3 for 3 for me and my son after our Texas trip last weekend and youth weekend in South Carolina this weekend

Grilling a breast from yesterdays bird now. Found quite a few pellets while dressing the bird so will chew carefully. Pulled a small piece off the grill as a sample for me and my son and we each had a pellet in the 2-3 bites we each took

That's because you're using Pixie Dust instead of Fairy Dust! Lol!

Congrats on your hunts...

Congrats. We still have 2 weeks to go before our season starts.

I thought the idea was to shoot them in the head😜

Guns? Loads? Ranges?

My .410 patterns are dense but small. I expect very few will end up in the eating part, as I have no plans to take any but head shots. In my larger guns, I’ll load fairy dust for the first shot, then lead for follow- ups.

Nice work!

Congrats.

Don't swallow any....if you do it's so dense it will go right through the lining of your stomach and end up in your big toe.



Pappy "expects".....

i guess an Elite fOe tinner like Pappy doesn't realize shotguns shoot patterns a lot of the time there's not much way to just hit them in the head.

20ga Benelli M2s

One is 24” Compact with a Rhino 575, SureCycle, Briley trigger, Trijicon SRO on a Scalarworks mount. Dedicated turkey gun.
One is 26” with a Sumtoy 562. FF3. This one is only carried when my son and I are both carrying a gun
Boss Tom 2oz 9s

My son must have shot the bird on Saturday low.

We managed to eat our wild turkey fajitas without needing any dental work afterwards. I pulled one pellet out and know I swallowed 2 more

Just BE CAREFUL !!!!!

I'm in the process of getting an implant after completely destroying a molar on a Federal Heavy7 pellet. It CAN happen.

thought that duct shot was supposed to blow right thru them

That is odd. Been reloading and killing gobblers w tss for 9 years. Out of 30-40 birds we have killed, I have only ever found one or two pellets in the bird. Might need to up your velocity, or let them get closer for head shots only.

I've found a few pellets in breasts, mostly on turkeys that were out there at longer distances. I use plain old lead #5 shot, as I'm not going pay $10 a shell just to kill a turkey, when a $2 one does just as good a job.

Congrats on y'all birds.

This one was a longish shot

And at the shot he didn’t drop and flop. We weren’t sure what happened and I was afraid of a miss. We went to go look and found the bird stone dead about 30 yards from where he was standing when my son pulled the trigger

So I’m pretty sure my son being a little off on the shot combined with the distance means the breast absorbed more pellets than normal

2oz! Wow, 724 pellets.

I read that 2oz as well, DANG!

So say the guys that never bit down on one.

Just how fer was he....

Ten 4. That stuff Happens when things get exciting.

I don’t know how far the shot was. It was across a big ditch. The bird was standing on a log I told my son he could shoot to when we were working the birds. Bird had just hopped off and presented a clear shot when my son pulled the trigger. I couldn’t see the bird when he pulled the trigger. If I had to guess I’d say 45 but that’s just a guess

Yes those 2oz boss loads are awesome. Best this gun has done is 368 in the 10” with them. That’s insane out of a 20ga in my experience. Basically half the payload. I don’t count 20” but guessing the other half is there

That's the way I look at it too. Nothing against guys that use TSS but, for me I've killed several birds at 40 yards and over and never used it.