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ScottG
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Spent the weekend spring Turkey hunting in NW Oklahoma. Beautiful rolling plains and amazing turkey.
I've hunted for 35 years but never felt the desire to turkey hunt, but needless to say that changed. Took a huge mature bird in full strut at 40 yards with my 1911 Fox 12 gauge. Shot 2 3/4" #4 loads and after hundreds of waterfowl the old girl got her first Tom. 1 1/4" spurs. Was a real treat.
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Hello Scott,
Congratulations, way to go! One has to constantly broaden ones horizons.
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Good going Scott. We are over run with turkeys here in Northeast Kansas. Come on up and clean some of them out and our scenery (and Basketball Team) is better than Oklahoma's
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Good going Scott. We are over run with turkeys here in Northeast Kansas. Come on up and clean some of them out and our scenery (and Basketball Team) is better than Oklahoma's
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Sidelock
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"Shot 2 3/4" #4 loads"
You must be mistaken Scott. All the articles say you need a 3 1/2" shell, with 2 1/2 oz of plutonium coated shot to take those big gobblers down. Oh, and you need to use a Benelli auto, too... :-)
Prof. P. Terry Plegia
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ScottG
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Never have gotten down the photo posting on here, but I do have a pic with me the bird and the gun.
@Prof.P.,
You are correct! I too was concerned that my 100 year old gun was not "enough" to take down a monster bird like mine! After all, there was no way these guns were used to hunt turkey's back then.
Oh how I love a great autoloader to hunt everything with! LMAO!
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I always get an odd twinge when someone says they have shot a bird walking along the ground. It's an English thing and I assume that these Turkey's can't fly anyway! It's all rather fascinating to me over here.  T
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Sidelock
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Wild turkeys can fly very well. They roost in the treetops .
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Sidelock
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Ah splendid! That's at least some sporting game then
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Turkeys can fly as fast as a bobwhite and can out run a horse in short distances. Couple that with innate wariness and 270 degree vision, they are a worthy quarry. If anyone says they've never missed one, they haven't shot at many. If you've shot at many and never missed, be quiet because there is a self-fulfilling curse for those who state it. There's an old saying: "Deer sees a man sitting in the woods: thinks its a stump. Turkey sees a stump in the woods; thinks it a man."
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