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Turkeys could be what Rook Rifles were made for! Lagopus.....
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Rifles are illegal for turkey hunting in most all US states.
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I haven't checked the laws here in Pennsylvania lately, but you could hunt turkeys with a rifle in the fall season when you can take either sex.
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I use a .22 High Power when hunting turkeys in the fall when it's legal to do so with a rifle. Alas, its not a classy little double, but rather a vintage Savage 1899, and loaded with 70 grain cast bullets at a skosh over .22MRF velocities. Very little meat damage.
Spring gobblers must face my Smith Longrange Gun.
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I intended to take last weekend's south Texas gobbler with my tang sighted 25-20 WCF low wall. Instead, a friend and I began the ball with me in the calling and backup position, scoped 22 Hornet in my lap in case of needing to take a cleanup shot. After my first couple of hen yelps, four gobblers rushed in, ignoring the deke's and looking straight at me! They turned and wandered off. I called them back, and they strutted right by me at 20 yards offering a clean heart shot on the second tom. We later sweet-talked in a second pair, one of which which fell to my buddy's 22 Magnum.
I love my shotguns but I really like calling turkeys in close and taking them with a small bore rifle!
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Supposedly the .22 Hornet evolved from experiments made at Springfield Armory in the 1920's with Winchester producing ammunition in 1930 even though no commercial rifles were produced in .22 Hornet caliber until 1932! Popular as an early varmint (woodchuck)caliber,I wonder if those old experimenters had any idea they were producing the finest turkey cartridge this Texas boy has ever used. 
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