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Lil' Yildiz's first bird. .410 13/16 oz. tungsten 9s. Small non-agricultural 2 year-old swamp bird shot in adjacent pine flat. Less than 10 minute hunt on public land. He responded to wingbone and closed fast. Finished with diaphragm. Rig weight: 3 lbs, 9 oz. as depicted. 
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Nothing like public land birds to evidence one's turkey huntin' competence. Congratulations. Do you have a gun bearer to help you around the woods with all that heavy gear?...Geo
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Do you have a gun bearer to help you around the woods with all that heavy gear?...Geo You mean my gnome?
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One last favorite game pic to close out my 2012/13 hunting year. These two long-beards wrapped up my Georgia Spring gobbler season last Friday morning up at my farm in middle GA. I spent the rest of the week-end searching for morel mushrooms..Geo  Way to go Geo. nice birds!!!! Our Spring Turkey season opened this last weekend, but....we got 18" of snow the day after the opener! Still a lot of snow on the ground. Easy to see the birds, but hard to get to them. Again, great pic! Best! Greg
Gregory J. Westberg
MSG, USA
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The gun is an A.H. Fox A-grade 12, F/XF and its sole purpose is spring gobbler hunting. I'm still working on a wise old tom that has been hen'd up the past two outings. Family farm in Fauquier County, VA with the Blue Ridge mountains of Shenandoah NP in the background. I'm happier than I look! 
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JMC, Great gun and beautiful photo of a beautiful place. Get that wise old tom!
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This morning I heard the bird on the limb early and had a westerly bearing on the compass. Bird answered my hoots and led me cross country into wet, thick swamp. I stopped 150 yards short and knew it was pointless to call or try to set up until he flew as I didnt know where the dry land was. He flew down, and after 5 minutes, I kept going westerly and found a park-like clean oak and pine hill rising dome-like out of the swamp about 150 yards from where I stopped. He didnt gobble on the ground, but I took a chance and sat down just below the hills crest so that I could see 40 yards out. I clucked on my Lil Duece and Perfection RaspyD mouth call. Within about 10 minutes I heard drumming to my right and there he was about 40 yards out. I couldnt move my gun to the right until he went behind a tree and was able to spin around the base of the pine where I sat. I held the little gun up until he cleared the tree and let the shot fly. He was 19 steps away. My 1/2 Yildiz doublegun weighs 3 lbs, 9 oz. .410 hand load is TSS 9, 13/16 oz. This was the third 2013 Ga. bird and second with the .410. Beard is 10.5 and spurs, 1.1. Hes a typical, gobbled-out, lightweight swamp bird on public land miles from any food plot or farm field. Shot him a gpsd 750 meters from where I parked the truck. This was a good way to start the work week and end the season.  
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Well done!!
TSS = Tungsten Super Shot
That super dense shot at high velocity
is sure an interesting change in shotgun performance.
What site is on your barrel?
Mike
Last edited by skeettx; 05/06/13 01:41 PM.
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Mike,the load I use has relatively low velocity at about 1000 fps. The sight is a Burris Fast Fire III (red dot). It has been demonstrated that tungsten super shot 9s has a penetration slightly deeper than lead 4's at 62 yards fired at the same velocity. Because of it's size compared with lead, in order for lead 4's to have the same pellet count as 1 oz. of tungsten 9's, the lead load would have to be 2.5 oz. This is why the .410 load I shoot is dense enough for reliable head and neck shots at 40 yards. The tungsten shot has a density of 18 g/cc compared with lead at 12 g/cc. Here's a pound of tungsten 8's compared with a pound of lead 8's. 
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Alexander Henry 500bpe double rifle and a chital deer doe I stalked last month: 
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