Charlie Harley, #14153 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Scanning for 20 gauge, I came across this... https://www.luckygunner.com/20-gauge-3-1-1-2-oz-9-shot-federal-heavyweight-tss-5-rounds Why would somebody want 1.5 ounces of #9 shot? A super dense pattern for turkey maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 Cowboy Clays side match! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 24 minutes ago, Three Foot Johnson said: Cowboy Clays side match! Not at $10 a round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Three Foot Johnson Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 How can you put a price on winning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patagonia Pete Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 The product information provided for the shells ... (shown on the page you have linked) ... states that the shell is specifically designed to be a turkey round. It even says ... quote > " As a nice bonus, Federal donates a portion of the profits they make from this box of hard-hitting shells to the National Wild Turkey Federation." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted June 17, 2021 Share Posted June 17, 2021 49 minutes ago, Crooked River Pete, SASS 43485 said: Not at $10 a round At that price I'll spend a lot of time not shooting...........and have a new 20 gauge that needs to be shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 A cheap box of #4s has worked just fine for me over the years. I think I gave $5.00 for it back when. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Safeway has all the turkeys I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patagonia Pete Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 19 minutes ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Safeway has all the turkeys I need. Yeah ... and they aren't armed either!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 Not all full of shot either. Not sure I want want to risk my teeth on a turkey full of tungsten #9 shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wallaby Jack, SASS #44062 Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 47 minutes ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Safeway has all the turkeys I need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 2 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Not all full of shot either. Not sure I want want to risk my teeth on a turkey full of tungsten #9 shot. They shoot for the head and neck with the heavy load of small shot. They make very tight chokes for 410 specifically for shooting wild turkey. https://www.midwayusa.com/s?searchTerm=Turkey+choke+tube Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 10 hours ago, Larsen E. Pettifogger, SASS #32933 said: Not all full of shot either. Not sure I want want to risk my teeth on a turkey full of tungsten #9 shot. Head shots. A wounded turkey is a gone turkey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D. Daily Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 8 hours ago, Michigan Slim said: Head shots. A wounded turkey is a gone turkey. I doubt the turkey my daughter dispatched with her 2" barrel Rossi 3/8 5 shot revolver was hit in the head. Where she lived one year there was an issue of a flock of turkeys hanging around her & her neighbor's property. The poop on the patio wasn't the worst damage they did. They ruin paint jobs on vehicles. Just before Thanksgiving a hen would spend most of the day on her patio & roost on her car. To chase it off permanently my daughter use the Rossi. As she told me she didn't want to kit it. So she pointed in the turkey's direction & pulled the trigger. Back then you could walk to within a few feet of turkeys in CA. A few years before then the only place outside a zoo you would see them is on the grounds of a prison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michigan Slim Posted June 18, 2021 Share Posted June 18, 2021 I head shoot them with the shotgun. Rifles and pistols, not that I ever have, would theoretically be a body shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warden Callaway Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 We started to have enough turkey season some 50 years ago. The popular gauges were 12 and 10 gauges. Shells loaded with #2, BB, 0000, etc. The idea being that a shot in the body that would generally pass through the bird or be easy to find. H&R made single shot long tom 10 gauges with really long barrels just for turkey hunting. https://www.midwayusa.com/product/1023917215 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. James H. Callahan Posted June 19, 2021 Share Posted June 19, 2021 I have several perfectly good 12 gauges, think I'll pass. I somewhere have some R-P 2x6's 3" mag. Only gun ever knocked me down. I was patterning it sitting on a log and it bowled me over. Not sure I'm mad enough at a turkey to touch one of those off! JHC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kloehr Posted June 20, 2021 Share Posted June 20, 2021 42 minutes ago, Capt. James H. Callahan said: I have several perfectly good 12 gauges, think I'll pass. I somewhere have some R-P 2x6's 3" mag. Only gun ever knocked me down. I was patterning it sitting on a log and it bowled me over. Not sure I'm mad enough at a turkey to touch one of those off! JHC I busted a log on a retaining wall today, totally rotten and i tried standing on it. Yellow jacket nest in it! Two of them got me, and at that moment, I was mad enough to set one of those off. The nest did get a dose of spray, and a second dose later in the afternoon. But totally tearing apart that corner of the wall with a 3" full charge does have a certain appeal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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