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Lead worked fine for 100 years and so did black powder. 100 years ago people road trains or horses when they went to the hunt or walked out the back door to the woods. Now they ride trucks or cars to the hunt. 100 years ago turkeys weren't shot with plastic stocked Italian inertia action shotguns. They used pumps, single shots and doubles. Now some do. Lead still works good. So does TSS.
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I'm really surprised that Frank doesn't permit only flintlock fowlers for turkey hunting. I am also surprised he sinks so low as to use a wooden box call. ANYONE can do that. Even me. Hardly sporting when I do it....
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) =>/ ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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Along comes BrentD aka "Freddy the free loader" singing back up to a song he doesn't know the words to...
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Lead worked fine for 100 years and so did black powder. 100 years ago people road trains or horses when they went to the hunt or walked out the back door to the woods. Now they ride trucks or cars to the hunt. 100 years ago turkeys weren't shot with plastic stocked Italian inertia action shotguns. They used pumps, single shots and doubles. Now some do. Lead still works good. So does TSS. I guess that the double rifle/shotgun combo's have fallen out of favor. I know that Savage sold a .222/20 ga. combo called a "Turkey Gun".
Dodging lions and wasting time.....
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Ken, not just fallen out of favor but illegal in most states. I think Virginia is among the few that still permits use of a rifle to shoot turkeys. However, even among those that don't, some permit solid ball muzzle loaders. I don't know how far one would get carrying the rifle/shotgun combo in a turkey woods during spring gobbler season explaining to a game warden that only the shotgun portion was in use. Gil
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A little OT...but I'm not a Turkey hunter and never have been. But Thanksgiving Day 1968, twin brother and I freshly back from Vietnam, all the aunts and uncles came up to Tuscaloosa. We were directed to take the young cousins out of the house on Thanksgiving morning while the cooking was going on. We scrounged every shotgun we could find...several pumps. That's an old single shot savage I'm carrying. Twin brother carried an old blond stock M-1 Carbine for some reason. Went out to the wild, put the cousins on line - the two of us walking behind like drill sergeants - and walked 400 yards up a stream bottom opening. A 30lb gobbler got up and flew down the line at 30 yards. about 7 shots were fired, all 8 shot and they just rattled off his feathers. At the last minute as the Turkey disappeared across the stream, brother snap shot the carbine at about 125 yards - Special Forces had been teaching the technique - and dropped the Turkey. Actually, it wasn't that difficult a shot - but he made it out to be. Legal? I have no idea...but to this day the cousins think that was a great event. 
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Baluch are not Brahui, Brahui are Baluch
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Argo, that's a cool story and photo!
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I know I've probably posted this picture before, but THIS is what a combination gun is good for:  ...Geo
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I bet you know a good lawyer....
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I bet you know a good lawyer.... We have only a Spring turkey season in GA, but wild hogs are open all year...Geo By the way, I was by the local outdoor store this morning to pick up a 5 round box of twenty gauge TSS 7's ($34.50), and they had the Henry single shot guns from the OP in stock so I checked them out. The brass frame is probably good for something but it ain't hunting, I don't think. The blued version like JR bought looks pretty good to me. It has all the safety features I'd want on a hammer gun, and a screw on forend so you could use a sling. It was $450 in the store and I pointed out you could pick them up on GunBroker for $350 brand new.
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