16ga.com ~ View topic - Turkey hunting 2022

Joined: 28 Aug 2014 Posts: 924 Location: Eastern Tennessee

I’m curious what members are planning to carry out this spring on their turkey hunts.

Joined: 10 Jan 2018 Posts: 23

TSS... but in a 20 Gauge.

Love my savage 220 Turkey

Joined: 04 Mar 2019 Posts: 1841 Location: Central ND

I am using a 16 ga. 1 1/4 oz. handload of buffered lead #5's, just as I did last year. I took 3 turkeys with 3 rounds. From about 25 to 30 yards. Using a 1962 vintage Remington 870 with a modified choke. Pattern percentage was 88% at 40 yards, although I didn't run a lot of patterns, but I will this year.

Joined: 01 Oct 2007 Posts: 962 Location: Minnesota

I’ll be using arrows.
If I used a shotgun, it would be lead #5 shot, probably 1 1/4 ounces from a 12 ga.

Joined: 27 Jan 2016 Posts: 490 Location: Oswego, Kansas

I will probably be loading up some loads of 6's to use in my 1912 LC Smith 10ga that I just won. Or maybe my M11 16ga with the polychoke cranked to full and use some good old purple Federal high brass 6's.

Joined: 09 Feb 2015 Posts: 818

I'll be using my 22 pellet rifle again this spring. Last year I took one . Nailed him just below the eye at approximately 40-45 yards. Hope to do again this year. Sure lot cheaper than what they charge fot turkey ammo. Bill

Joined: 08 Mar 2016 Posts: 120 Location: South Dakota

Hand loaded tss 1 3/8 in 12 gauge. Would like to use a 20 gauge but haven’t found the one I want with everything going on the last few years.

Joined: 06 Jan 2021 Posts: 89 Location: Florida

I recently bought a pound of tss to play with, loading data for 16 gauge is pretty poor from most of the tss suppliers that usually produce load data for you or utilize wads that have been sold out for 2 years(vp80). If anyone has some tss Turkey or waterfowl duplex loads please post them up or send me a private message.

Also has anyone experimented with 1oz TSS loads for Turkey 300-365 pellets of tss seem like plenty depending on how your gun patterns.

Joined: 09 Feb 2015 Posts: 818

I'll give you guys want a # to call if your wanting hand loads for Turkey, coyotes.
He has a manufactIuring license. And many time has a booth at your better gun shows in the country. I do know he loads 12, 20, 28. 410. It's not just Tss but all different nontoxic loads.
His name is Brice and the # is . 574 780 7506. I don't know if he loads for 16.
I have nothing in this. No monetary adventures of any kind. I am a friend of his father who happens to be a preacher and one of the old man breakfast coffee drinkers in the morning at McDonalnuts 7 ud's. Bill

Joined: 25 Jan 2014 Posts: 229 Location: MN

My wife and I will use some Hevi-shot handloads that maximumsmoke was peddling out of the trunk of his Cordoba a few years ago.

There was one box of new black paper hulls loaded with heavy shot sixes. My wife has three one shot kills in 3 years. I have taken one over those three years.

Joined: 11 Dec 2015 Posts: 83 Location: Upstate, SC

I need to build some 2-1/2” loads for a Husqvarna 310 choked full/xfull. I have some #6 nickel plated shot. I think 1 oz should be plenty.

Lead is my answer.

Joined: 12 Mar 2013 Posts: 24

Shot some turkey loads with the Ballistic products CSD16 wads today. Wad petals held up to the TSS #9s really well. I just need to find the right choke for this load.
I still can’t figure out how to post photos here.

https://www.gobblernation.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=23854

Joined: 06 Jan 2021 Posts: 89 Location: Florida

16 GA. Or 12 GA.

5/8 oz or 3/4 oz of #9's

@ or greater than 1400 fps

Will post pictures this year now that I have time .

Being RETARDED is great should have quit work at age 20.

Best Regards , Nick

We're allowed two turkeys in Oregon. For the first, I'll go with tss out of a 410 or 1 1/8oz 5's or 6's out of my 16 Dickinson or Lefever CE 12. Haven't decided yet. If I get one, then I'll switch to my recurve bow for the second. Tried my bow opening morning last year, and had to let a nice gobbler walk away at 35 yds. That's tough sledding. Confused