Turkey Talk

[NMSbowhunter]

Ok serious question. Google telling me that the average turkey is taken at 40 yards with shotgun. Have you folks consider using crossbow with turkey broadheads? 40-50 yards seem like still a very doable shot for crossbow and way cheaper...maybe?

Some people do. It might get old lugging a crossbow around, but if you were pretty much stationary, like in a blind, then it would not be too much of a deal.

 

[Center Punch]

I learned how from catmans videos. It’s a fun diy project. After cutting the ends off I cleaned the tubes out and then used a small flat head screwdriver to take out the stringies. After that they got a short soak in peroxide (6 hours). Air dried for a day or two. Next I light sanded to the desired fit. I’m doing another curved and one straight this time. Epoxy them together to fill in the spaces.
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Thank you!

I saw your post in the classified section. Do you have a link to the serving you prefer to use?

 

[bigmike23]

Ok serious question. Google telling me that the average turkey is taken at 40 yards with shotgun. Have you folks consider using crossbow with turkey broadheads? 40-50 yards seem like still a very doable shot for crossbow and way cheaper...maybe?

Being most of us are archers, alot will strongly disagree, but I do not like hunting turkeys with bows of any kind. A bunch of us tried years ago in blinds and had horrid results. We did not attempt head shots, but typical body hits. The problem is the feathers make tracking difficult to impossible. You gotta hope he does quick.

There's a video of a kid and his father taken in one of our fields, where you can see the lighted nock perfectly hit the bird just under his beard. Perfect shot. The bird took off and wasnt recovered. We found him a few weeks later dead under a fallen tree. And this has happened more than once.

If taking a bird at 40 yards is too easy for you, use a .410 with a classic lead load. You got 25 yards tops.

 

[bigmike23]

Wow. I had no idea.

My son killed a two year old at 40 yds w/ a #6 2 3/4"Pheasant loads way back when with this gun and choke. Then another bird at 30yds w/ something similar. And I've killed dove and ducks with it, so I know it shoots at point of aim with a bunch of different loads.

I still can't leave my 3 1/2" 870 at home because it's taken so many birds, but for my SECOND bird of the season I think I'll grab this Youth gun with the SST's I bought last year.

Thank you for the advice!

Ya, I thought about using the 10 ga for my first bird, and grabbing a super lightweight sexy .410 for the second. After this season, PA will be a 1 turkey state moving forward.

So it's the 10 for the foreseeable future.

 

[Bigterp]

Ok serious question. Google telling me that the average turkey is taken at 40 yards with shotgun. Have you folks consider using crossbow with turkey broadheads? 40-50 yards seem like still a very doable shot for crossbow and way cheaper...maybe?

How is an arrow & broadhead cheaper than TSS? Lol

 

[NMSbowhunter]

How is an arrow & broadhead cheaper than TSS? Lol

Only because it is reusable.

 

[Bigterp]

Only because it is reusable.

Possibly…. If you find it intact & only needs blades after. I know it’s not as 1 & done as a shotgun shell.

 

[gcr0003]

Thank you!

I saw your post in the classified section. Do you have a link to the serving you prefer to use?

It doesn’t really matter I just only have that brighter green, so something like black, white, brown, buckskin, something neutral would be great.

 

[HuumanCreed]

Being most of us are archers, alot will strongly disagree, but I do not like hunting turkeys with bows of any kind. A bunch of us tried years ago in blinds and had horrid results. We did not attempt head shots, but typical body hits. The problem is the feathers make tracking difficult to impossible. You gotta hope he does quick.

There's a video of a kid and his father taken in one of our fields, where you can see the lighted nock perfectly hit the bird just under his beard. Perfect shot. The bird took off and wasnt recovered. We found him a few weeks later dead under a fallen tree. And this has happened more than once.

If taking a bird at 40 yards is too easy for you, use a .410 with a classic lead load. You got 25 yards tops.

You're right. As l never hunted turkey before so l probably can't appreciate a good grouping in regards to ammo. Heck l probably spend more on arrows that I'll probably never use again compared to shells you all buy....

Question, do they make TSS for muzzleloader too?

 

[NMSbowhunter]

You're right. As l never hunted turkey before so l probably can't appreciate a good grouping in regards to ammo. Heck l probably spend more on arrows that I'll probably never use again compared to shells you all buy....

Question, do they make TSS for muzzleloader too?

If you just had the shot you could load it like any other in a muzzle loader...

 

[Center Punch]

If that load was used to its maximal potential with the right choke, 60 yards is easy. That's not a hail Mary, let her rip tater chip, or here goes nothing. That's a dead bird 100% of the time rain or shine.

I messed up. I have TSS loads with 5,6, & 7 size shot.

What, if any, difference does it make?
( Refraining from adding: "At this Point" for those who know where that comes from, so ignore this part because if it was really being spoken out loud - it was only being said - in Minecraft )

 

[ChubbyTreeHanger]

All I have to add is if you like using TSS in smaller gauge guns is to stock up on what little is out there. It may be awhile before you see it again. I am shooting Winchester TSS #9 in a 20ga. Spendy about 16$ a shot. Gun is patterned and I know I got enough for the foreseeable decade. I think of it as an investment not a cost.

 

[bigmike23]

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All I have to add is if you like using TSS in smaller gauge guns is to stock up on what little is out there. It may be awhile before you see it again. I am shooting Winchester TSS #9 in a 20ga. Spendy about 16$ a shot. Gun is patterned and I know I got enough for the foreseeable decade. I think of it as an investment not a cost.

Tss is still reasonable in smaller gauges, especially .410. you can grab a box from Nitro Company of 25 shells for 226$. 25 shells for me is probably 30 years worth lol

 

[bigmike23]

I messed up. I have TSS loads with 5,6, & 7 size shot.

What, if any, difference does it make?
( Refraining from adding: "At this Point" for those who know where that comes from, so ignore this part because if it was really being spoken out loud - it was only being said - in Minecraft )

Without the density of 9s, I would not shoot at 60 unless it's patterned and you can maintain 100 in a 10 in circle. If you do, all those pellets will hit like a train.

 

[woodsdog2]

Midwest Turkey Call Supply has decent prices on TSS from a company called Rocky Ridge Ammo Co. and lead Win Longbeard XR from what I can tell.

Rocky Ridge Ammo Co. - Midwest Turkey Call Supply

midwestturkeycall.com

 

[Dsabhunt]

Brought my nephew out turkey hunting and got him his first bird. We didn't have any luck last Saturday but this morning we were in the chips. Pretty sure I just made him a turkey hunter for life

 

[Swamp Fox__On The Run]

[...] however, I bet almost everyone on this site spends more in a year on takeout coffee, or fast food, etc than a box of TSS, even at $100 per box. So, unless someone is maxing out their state limit and then doing a lot of out of state hunting, or is a patterning junkie, in the grand scheme of things, it's not that expensive if you really break it down.

This, of course, is what our consumer marketing overlords have taught us to say.

My fervent hope is that the high cost of TSS will return turkey hunting to a close-in, intimate game.

If you know, you know.

But the reality is it will just strangle hunters' patterning and load/choke/barrel experimentation and practice. Folks are likely to settle for the belief that the one or two discount TSS "scores" they stumble on surfing the web are good enough, for fear of actually firing those expensive loads to find out for themselves.

Because they really, REALLY want to be able to shoot a turkey at half a football field. .

Is your red-dot sight still dialed in this year--short, medium and long---or did it get knocked out of whack when you tripped over that root last weekend?

How happy are you to shoot some of your TSS stash to find out?


I guess the good news is that if all this TSS drama is too much, you could always murder long-range gobblers with a crossbow, where rifles aren't legal.

 

[Center Punch]

This, of course, is what our consumer marketing overlords have taught us to say.

My fervent hope is that the high cost of TSS will return turkey hunting to a close-in, intimate game.

If you know, you know.

But the reality is it will just strangle hunters' patterning and load/choke/barrel experimentation and practice. Folks are likely to settle for the belief that the one or two discount TSS "scores" they stumble on surfing the web are good enough, for fear of actually firing those expensive loads to find out for themselves.

Because they really, REALLY want to be able to shoot a turkey at half a football field. .

Is your red-dot sight still dialed in this year--short, medium and long---or did it get knocked out of whack when you tripped over that root last weekend?

How happy are you to shoot some of your TSS stash to find out?


I guess the good news is that if all this TSS drama is too much, you could always murder long-range gobblers with a crossbow, where rifles aren't legal.

Not to derail, but a quick question.

None of my scopes have ever needed to be re-zeroed once I've installed them. I didn't get into deer hunting until the early 2000's.
Were the scopes yester-year that bad or something?

 

[10essee]

I learned how from catmans videos. It’s a fun diy project. After cutting the ends off I cleaned the tubes out and then used a small flat head screwdriver to take out the stringies. After that they got a short soak in peroxide (6 hours). Air dried for a day or two. Next I light sanded to the desired fit. I’m doing another curved and one straight this time. Epoxy them together to fill in the

I love making wingbone calls then killing a big gob with them.

 

[woodsdog2]

Did a little preseason listening. Only four roost gobbles that sounded way off. Audio wise, it kept presenting like someone trying to start their car or something. Then it finally dawned on me….. that’s drumming!!! It was so loud this morning I couldn’t square that circle in my mind at first. Almost directly behind me. Ended up being two longboards, three Jake’s and at least five hens. Never heard one “spit” I captured some horrible video of the one dominate tom. Here’s a screenshot from the video lol.