I've used some 1 1/8 oz #5 handloads for turkeys at around 1200fps, out of my 12 ga SKB 280E and also a 12 ga Rem 1900. The turkeys never knew they were hit with only an 1 1/8 oz of shot!

The past few years it's been a variety of 16 ga's with either a handload of 1 or 1 1/8 oz load of #5's, again the birds were dead at the shot-velocity, again at around 1200pfs.

Cameron Hughes