Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire TN and FTCKY Turkey season opener tommorow, 1st 2 shots outta the 935 turkey gun pattern.

Dont kick as much as a 835 even with the tweaks I used to do to them over the years with sinkers and wally world bags stuffed in the buttstock and a limbsaver pad put on.
Did the same with the 935.
.670 rhino choke.
Tru glo pro series sights.
Polished forcing cone and barrel.
Ect ect ect for 835,s over the years.

Nice looking turkey gun - good luck tomorrow!

3.5 " 2oz # 6 win LB shells
40 yds.
1st shot out of the 935 ever.
Rough bore sighted on a softball in the back yard about 25 yds away couple of weeks ago.
Happy it was on the money 👍👍👍



Clean barrel on the bench for 2nd shot to give all shots a equal footing/ barrel condition to throw the best pattern it can shot to shot consistently.

Turkey season opened here today. I went out for a few hours, run and gun; no interest at all in that O:dark30, call 'em off the roost bullschitt, did enough of that back in the day.

My turkey gun is a 24" turkey barrel (3" 12 gauge) on my Encore. Probably weighs 5-6 pounds all up. Kicks like a sumbitch. Puts turkeys down real decisively.

Are you limited to 6s?

Season here aint open for 3 more weeks.

Turkey hunting is stupid. It distracts from the plight of the helpless Ukrainians.

No we can use 4 shot.

I just like # 6 Win LB shells.

Like #7 hevi 13.

Like mag blend 5 6 7.

Can find Win LB,s

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I forgot all about the UKE,s....😔😔😔😔


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Pellet counts back at the house.

I need to try some 3.5" in my Benelli

Most dudes use a .410 now.

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Hearing that one bird around 1130 long gobbling on your dads place.
Kinda got me wondering about poaching preachers son and how many that azz clown has taken off the place over the years.

Im gonna hit you dads place probably mid week and poke around the boundary after a morning hunt.

I use a downes syndrome looking cut out peice of cardboard to outline a turkey head and a wally world 10" plate I bought a long time ago.

Fugg spending money for tgts.....

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Two critters that can make a man tres…uh….poa….uhh….snea…..uhhh….borrow land rights the most are trout and turkeys. Say it ain’t so.

Lots more vital areas in a turkeys neck than just it's brain and neck bones.
Tracheal tube
Esophageal tube
Veins
Arteries
Nerve bundles
Tendons
Ligaments

Just give the back of the boot heel to the noggin while they are doing the curly shuffle to shut em down most of the time anyways.

Or the grab the legs, stand on the head and jerk to break the neck.

No...
I aint never been spurred.
Thats some old wives tale schit AFAIC....
Yes I have picked up many birds that way getting flogged by the wings.
Bringing them to a spot to get their head on hard ground, a rock, or log to footstomp their noggin.
Aint wasting another shell on a bird that just needs its skull crushed.
Doing it on soft ground just pushes their head into the ground.

Haven't even experimented w TSS.
Still have WW HV 4s and some Magnum Blend Hevi shot to use up LOL.


First tom yrs ago shot w reg full choke 1100 mag and 5s, was around 20 yards. Killed a few more and switched to 4s and Superfull Remchoke on 870 supermags ( only ran 3" ).

Lotsa "champ" turkey hunters in TN shoot em off cracked corn and black oil sunflower seeds.
Thats a given..
Feed the hens
The Toms show up.
Just like does and bucks.
Been seeing wally world corn sales happening last couple weeks
Usual bubba phatt fuggs and 20 to 40 yr old something suspects...

Yrs ago in a state forrest reported one clown to a warden 2 weeks before season even started.
Had 4 empty bags of corn and sunflower seeds in his pickup.
Spilled seed going into the woods on his trail.
He had to have heard me stop on the gravel road by his truck.
Dude had a yellow flag marker trail going into his "honey hole"
Gave warden his plate # and exact location.

Warden didnt wanta be bothered is the impression I got from him.
Most TN wardens are checking the block worthless from my interactions with em over the decades anyways.

Id take my bow if I still had my old spot.

Got cocky killin em w shotgun 3 yrs in a row so took the recurve the next yr, hunted 10 days. Never saw or heard a bird.

Went out the following yr, opening day and had 3 friggin toms at first light. Blasted one w 870.

Buddy sold that place

New state ground, aint got one w shotgun yet. Bow would be ridiculous.

Have 10 acre spot close to home, killed 2 there, but its blasting em next to pasture not far from the swimming pool.....doesnt give much of a hunt feel LOL.

And its sneak in and set in one spot only.

No run n gun available.

I like topography and bigger ground.
Kinda like elk hunting in Indiana 😊