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Thanks for the suggestion not to go there, Coosa. I likely won�t go. If it doesn�t involve a bird dog and a shotgun, I don�t have much interest in hunting it anyway. And now, let me give you a bit of advice......welcome to the internet where people can say just about anything without recourse. We�ve all been called names and have been �put in our place� if you have been on this site long enough. Thicken up your skin a bit.

You are not a moron. The best revenge will be another mouthful of wild turkey after a successful hunt.
Go forth, and slay turkey. I'd be out there, but, the Setter would just be confused.
I only hunt in the company of a Setter. But, you can and should hunt turkeys.


Best,
Ted

Just consider the source, coosa.

Thanks Buzz. I guess I did a poor job of conveying me feelings. I have a very thick internet skin and was just trying to offer something rational in the thread. I'm still not clear on whether some think TSS is too good or too bad. Both ideas have been presented, and I think a rational person would agree that it can't be both.

Rest assured I'm not gonna lose any sleep over it one way or another.

Good shooting to all.

I stand by my comment that I think that anyone that would shoot a turkey with a #9 size pellet of any type is a mOron.

That's just my opinion and I'm sorry if some feel offended by it......

Why? If he's within 25 steps (turkey hunters always say steps instead of yards), he's had it. I don't believe in shooting at a turkey gobbler past 35 steps anyway, and I know that distance perfectly because I either wait until he's that close or he gets away without a shot. The dudes with 10 gauges shooting at them at 65 steps is what I despise.

But nothing bothers me more than using a decoy. I TRULY despise those damn things. Made for people who refuse to learn how to call a turkey or where to set up for the best chance at calling him in.

But you have to understand something: I'm a severe old-school turkey hunter from the Deep South where it all started, and there's just some things I have bought into over the past 40 years about this sport that I believe to be worthy of adhering to, and I suffer poorly those who take shortcuts.
JR

12 gauges will out shoot 10's....

What really irks me is the grOwn men inside an out'e house blind with a dA'coy spread shooting a turkey then thinking he's done something.

You would really despise these internet turkey hunting bozOs making 70 and 80 and even 90 yard claims with TSS #9 fAiry dust sized pellets....

If they really adhered to the lies they tell about how close they like to shoot their turkeys at....then there is no need for super duper TSS shot in any gauge.

That's bullshit and you know it. Did you even read anything I just wrote, or are you here just to be contrary? Wait, I already know the answer to that...
JR

John, that's a trick statement he made. Qualified by what one can pick off the shelves at Wally World. Commercial 12 gauge loads may out shoot commercial 10 ga. loads because the ammo companies stopped developing the 10 and devoted development to the 3.5" 12. There are some niche companies who have hotter ammo than any 12. Handloads can also take advantage of the volume of the 10 ga. 3.5" hull and outshoot the piss out of any 12 gauge. Take a look at the copper plated lead shot in 10 ga. 3 oz of shot at 1200 fps. Gil
http://www.nitrocompany.com/ammunition.html#CopperTable

Joe, nothing you could ever say would offend me. But it you are gonna make such a dogmatic proclamation about a type of ammunition you have never tried, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask you to state whether it's too good or too bad. You continue to argue both, and that's downright irrational.

State your position and defend it.

No reason for anyone to get mad; we are just talking about a type of ammunition. I don't care what anyone uses as long as they don't wound a turkey with it.