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There are of course other factors involved, the larger diameter will disturb more tissue, cause more severe bleeding & unless extremely hard the lead shot is more likely to flatten a bit on impact giving a better energy transfer even though lessening its penetration a bit.
Energy transfer is beyond their scope of reasoning. As you just witnessed above there is little chance of your explanation penetrating the thick skulls of the TSs crowd... Fact is Miller most of the boZozs are shooting a #9 size pellets thinking they are shooting steel plated turkeys and some routinely braged about 70 to 80 yard kills untill they got called out for doing it. Then their story changes on the long distance kills...sadly they think it takes 600 fairy dust sized pellets to kill a turkey
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There you go again. What worked for you in the third grade name calling isn't persuasive coming out of the mouth of a 63 year old man. Everyone is out of step but you. You are pretty sanctimonious about how you hunt turkeys, according to you only calling them under 40 yards and shooting them with #4 shot. Assuming it was you, what load "shot" were you using when you shot the bird with the scoped rifle pictured on the wall next to your 870? 
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Plastic bottled water, and hemp sex lubricant, next to a cheap 870 express.
Seen it all, now.
Best,
Ted
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You stalking me mr.Ted ?
Actually that's a turkey my late uncle killed in Mississippi with a Marlin .219 Zipper back in the 1950's.
Ps...mr. Ted shame on you....you have such a twisted mind that's actually Hemp hand cream I bought at Walmart.
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I'm going with the TSS #7's, 1 1/2 oz. load @ 1100 fps in my 20 ga. Henry. We'll see what happens at 35 yds or less, but I've got a pretty good idea. The few gobblers (tom is a Yankee term for a gobbler) I've shot recently were all inside 35 yds, some much closer.
I just don't think it's any sport in long shots on turkeys, the whole point being to fool him with your calling and tactics until he's about to be in your lap if you don't shoot.
And I absolutely abhor decoys. They're for rubes who have no skills with a call, tactic knowledge, or respect for their quarry. I ridicule them at every opportunity.
JR
Last edited by John Roberts; 02/25/19 08:50 PM.
Be strong, be of good courage.
God bless America, long live the Republic.
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Why do you think you need TSs inside 35 yards ?
When you hunt a turkey out of an enclosed blind with decoys you have defeated a turkeys only means of defense...his eye sight.
It should be against the law...just as 7 and 9 shot should be against the law to shoot a turkey with.
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I might go rogue and shoot him at 40. I put blinds in the same category as decoys. Chickenshit method of murdering a turkey.
JR
Last edited by John Roberts; 02/25/19 09:01 PM.
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It should be against the law...just as 7 shot should be against the law to shoot a turkey with. Do you still feel it was okay to kill five turkeys in a day in TN? You justified it to me by saying it was "legal". Now, you ain't got all them turkeys to hunt, like you did. Told me so yourself. So, it's okay to be legal and kill five a day, but not okay to be legal and kill one? SRH
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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I might go rogue and shoot him at 40. I put blinds in the same category as decoys. Chickenshit method of murdering a turkey.
JR How much you want to bet theres a real purist with a string attached to a stick with a noose at the end of it hiding under a bush saying the same thing about a guy with a $400 shotgun and $10 shells saying the same thing? __________________________ Ill give you odds too.
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I might go rogue and shoot him at 40. I put blinds in the same category as decoys. Chickenshit method of murdering a turkey.
JR How much you want to bet theres a real purist with a string attached to a stick with a noose at the end of it hiding under a bush saying the same thing about a guy with a $400 shotgun and $10 shells saying the same thing? __________________________ Ill give you odds too. Any amount you're comfortable with, lonesome, but I wish him well. JR
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