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

Traded 1k of PMC M855 for it.
Built up profit merchandise aquired from the 9mm Endowment Foundation spring thru early summer 2021.

I like those #6 LB too. As well as the mag blend.

I’m not sure why but I have enough Hevi-shot to last me 25 years. I’m. It sure why or where I bought it all….but it’s there.

Capercallie season opens when?

Wait what?! I thought you were off fighting Russians for Pall Malls or something.

Best of luck tomorrow! Spring to me means turkeys and walleye. Our turkey season starts three weeks from tomorrow. The inland walleye season and our towns “Walleye Festival” is the following weekend. Good times.

Ftcky has been cut to 2 weeks down from 6 weeks due to a major training exercise.
Limit is 2 birds on post.

Probably not gonna be alot of hunters buying their permit because of that.
Which is fine by me.
Also be alot more older birds next yr from this also.

TN last till mid may.

Focus next 3 days on post.
Closed to hunting tuesdays and wensdays.

Basically a 11 day season this year.
They couldnt even make a acception to policy and open it tue and wens for those extra 4 days after cutting the season by 4 weeks.

Ever since Isportsman became the norm 5 yrs ago DOD wide.
The faceless little entities running it just go with the flow and get paid.
No more bio data gathered on deer or turkey kills in person at tagging shack.
Electronic check in of kills.
0 hunting and fishing unit staff employed anymore doing surveys or field work.
It has been magnified by the convenient. Gov worker C19 excuse to do the least for the most $ also....

Been playing with TSS in .410 and 20ga for a year, but doubt it’s a big advantage for 12s at ordinary ranges; might even be too much of a good thing. Those patterns from rene50’s gun are scary-good.

The TSS I have, Apex and Federal, was purchased in 2020 and last year. Looks like this year’s prices are up maybe 50%!

I like TSS shot also. Sounds like fun chasing them with a .410 loaded up with it. I stick with a plain Jane Rem 870 Express 12 gauge and Pure Gold turkey choke. I’m not sure that TSS is a big advantage either but it does extend my range by a few yards when they hang up right on the edges. I’m comfortable out to 50 yards. For the amount of shooting I do at turkeys I bought a few boxes of Federal TSS a few years back to pattern with and it will last me several years. I haven’t priced it recently.

Good luck tomorrow Rene

Good luck, kill turkeys, piss on the other noise.

Good luck Rene !

I like tss. I use a tss choke too. works well at longer ranges. dang expensive though and hard to find at times

Keep em or throw them in the ditch Ren?

If I recall correctly, Slum was the only one that claimed he ditched them.
Rene would at least feed them to his dog.

I quit shooting them years ago, because the ones here in N TX taste nasty as hell. When you’d clean them, they’d be chock full of grasshoppers.

Pretty technical patterning there Rene... I just figure the furthest distance I can put six pellets in a beer can is max range for that load and gun.

LOL. Yep. Minute of beer can was my target Media when I first started patterning shotguns in HS. 🤠

Best shot I ever made on a Turkey was in HS. Took my cousin on his first Turkey Hunt, as he was a couple of years younger than me. He missed with his Dad’s old model 12 Full Choke Winchester. The Turkey took off flying straight away from us and I downed him mid flight at about 70 yards with my 94 30-30.
He thought it was a hell of a shot. I thought I was just damn lucky. 😬

I bought some 3 1///2 inch turkey loads once, for no good reason. Guess maybe I was thinking duck gun (Beretta Extrema) for fall run and gun.... Always used a double or my "turkey gun" when spring hunting. Coming back from dropping the kids at school one morning, bunch of turkeys in the neighbor's lawn when I drove by, fall season open (common driveway and neighbor is since childhood hunting/fishing/general mischief good friend), so..... pulled into the yard, got my duck gun out of the safe and filled it with those 3 1/2" Federal super turkey loads. Walked back out the driveway; when the turkeys saw me coming the took off running across in front of me about 40 yards out...swung on one, bam! dropped like a rock. Surprised me...figured at that distance I might have to shoot twice or run up and break its neck...swung on another, probably 10 yards further...bam! same result.

They had them at PSA the other day when I was there. Somehow, I just can't see myself pulling the trigger on a $12 shotgun shell. Somehow, I've gotten by for over 40 years with lead 2's, 4's, 5's.... guess I'll stick with it. If I need more range I'll use my .25-20.

Gave the breast to the dogs

Cookie, Blackjack, and Rico loved raw turkey breast.
Those 3 dogs are gone.
My dogs solely loyal to me.

Baylor and Brady are the ones now.

Wife and Daughters dogs.
Not loyal to me as soon as one of the women get home.
It's like screw you dude I want upstairs with the ladies.
So I gotta give em it on the sly.
They treat them 2 like dietary controlled lab rats.

If they only knew all the snacks they get from me each day when they are at work.
😄😄😄

Neither have ever had raw wild turkey before.
Be interesting to see how they react.
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Academy had hevi 18 7,s and 9 s
74 buck for a box of 5

Midsouth has the fed tss 7,s and 9,s on " sale" at 69 for a box of 5


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These Win LB 6,s will kill out to 50 if needed.
28 for a box of 10.

to be honest you'll kill just as many birds without. I found some tss on clearance few years ago at midway.