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LR, we have to be discontented with turkey hunting as we don't have a heritage of hockey. Gil

I never liked ugly women and I sure don't like ugly junk guns...

Send me your ugly yildiz counselor and I'll be glad to whup it around a tree and burn it for you.

What does rigged out mean ?



Get a bigger bead...that's what I did.

Doesn't take a TSS rOcket scientist to figure that out.

Saddlemount and an older model Aimpoint red dot, extended choke. Gun is long gone. I swapped it even with a man four years ago for my 1939 Ithaca NID Magnum 10 3.5" 32" barrels that I had sold to him decades ago. I bought the gun out of Shotgun News ad from the late Thad Scott of Indianola, MS. sometime in 1978-80.

Seems I did answer you...

No thanks....my W&C Scotts work just fine.




And they do it with class....

Both guns barrels are equally choked (the sidelock 12 is choked .035 the hammer 10 is choked a little less than .030) making them as close to the perfect turkey gun as you can get.

Thanks for bring up the old post Gill I wondered what happened to these pics....the bottom photo should have two longbeards in the pic but my buddy missed his shot with his modern gun topped with a scOpe.

You had an early flat ribbed SBE...they were known to shoot low.

Discontent doesn�t last this long in hockey. Someone is usually laying unconscious on the ice by page six.


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Off to brunch! Western with cheese and a Force Frappe!

Either that or an octopus.

. That was a good one, LR. No other group is as crazy as Southern turkey hunters. We all do it a little different, and many really believe that their way is the only "right" way to do it. Some of them are so crazy they will pay absurd amounts of money for a trumpet call and they won't have a clue of how to use it. I'm not being critical; more power to the guy able to sell them.

Since the thread hasn't gotten so far off track and turned into a gripe session, I might as well provide the board with my own list of things I dislike in the current turkey hunting world. I am not calling anyone unethical for doing any of it if it's legal in your state. These are just things I don't do and I don't like.

1) Hunting turkeys with decoys. I killed one years ago with the aid of a decoy and it left a bad taste in my mouth. I wish the whole turkey decoy industry would go away.

2) Hunting them over bait. Just go buy one at the store instead of doing this.

3) Shooting them with centerfire rifles. It's legal in a few states, but my idea of turkey hunting is calling up a gobbler in the spring and shooting him with a shotgun. Everyone else should think like me.

4) Hunting them with the aid of a dog. Few things in life are more enjoyable than hunting with a good quail dog, but if you gotta have a dog to kill a turkey you should just stay on the porch. I am really thankful that my state has always made this illegal.

5) Drumroll,.... And the worst practice in all of hunting is shooting a hen turkey. The spring gobbler is a surplus bird and it doesn't affect the overall population to remove some. Killing hens is killing the future. I really can't imagine how a grown man could get any enjoyment from such a thing.

Coosa,
Up North we are all most as crazy, as you Southeren Turkey hunters, (LOL!!) one of my fondest memories back in the 70s was hunting with Ben Rogers Lee. Big as life,good old boy who's second language was English (first of course was Turkey).
Ben hunted with a 10 gauge, big man big gun. And had the same rule of thumb, no rifle, no bait, no dogs and no hens. For decoys, not sure of.
I have been taking youth hunter first time turkey hunters to the woods for the past 12 years, and this is the only time I use a couple of decoys. I still call the birds in and the decoys keep the attention of the Tom off the young hunter, that are not always able to sit still.
Several years back, I took a good friend turkey hunting in NY. He was a big predator hunter, and hunted with a sxs Churchill 10 guage and Nitro Rays special blind of 2 and a half oz of 2s, that kicked like a Clydesdale! He took his first bird, no more than 25 steps. I think every bone on that bird was broken. I hope he still remembers that bird.