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dilly
PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2018 8:09 am  Reply with quote
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I got a nice tom today with my Blaser ES67. 20lbs 11oz, 9.5" beard, 1 1/4" spurs.




Took a poke at a coyote this morning too with 5.6x50R barrel, but didn't seal the deal. on him.

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jschultz
PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2018 11:52 am  Reply with quote



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Good for you. Our place is full of turkeys, and the hunters have so far failed to harvest a bird.
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PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2018 1:41 pm  Reply with quote
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Nice job! All those colors and he couldn't quite match the shell.

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AmericanMeet
PostPosted: Sun May 06, 2018 9:33 pm  Reply with quote



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What load weight?

Are the super heavy weight loads as marketed by the ammo companies really necessary to pattern a turkey's neck/head?
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Pine Creek/Dave
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2018 8:34 am  Reply with quote



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Dilly,

Very nice German Gun and great Turkey, way to go!

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dilly
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2018 5:53 pm  Reply with quote
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AmericanMeet wrote:
What load weight?

Are the super heavy weight loads as marketed by the ammo companies really necessary to pattern a turkey's neck/head?

Thanks guys. I used a reload from a buddy. It was 1 1/4oz load of #5s. Blue dot powder and I’m told it was around 1250fps.

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AmericanMeet
PostPosted: Mon May 07, 2018 7:35 pm  Reply with quote



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dilly wrote:

Thanks guys. I used a reload from a buddy. It was 1 1/4oz load of #5s. Blue dot powder and I’m told it was around 1250fps.



Thanks back at you - It's nice to have my faith reaffirmed that wild turkeys are not armor plated and do not require a 12 ga 3.5" shell with 2 ounces of shot at supersonic speeds.
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Gil S
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2018 2:53 am  Reply with quote
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That's a quite a gun. Always nice to get a quality bird, too. Hope your birds survived in numbers in spite of the late snow and ice. Gil
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mart
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Very nice. Congratulations.
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dilly
PostPosted: Tue May 08, 2018 3:38 pm  Reply with quote
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Gil S wrote:
That's a quite a gun. Always nice to get a quality bird, too. Hope your birds survived in numbers in spite of the late snow and ice. Gil

The numbers seem fine Gil. I worried more about the woodcock who arrived early.

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