Turkey ammo ads...

TSS and long beards aren't the problem. It's the advertisement and also the mis information on the unethical folks all over social media. This is turkey hunting to most of the new people. Fans, blinds, decoys, and long range shells and guns. If there were people that would teach them right to get them inside of 50 yards it would help out. So many people also feel like they have to prove themselves on social media to kill at all cost. Don't understand why people can't accept losing the game. It isn't life or death, it ain't money, it's supposed to be a fun game.

I can't stand the way some hunters are, and I sure do hope it doesn't continue to get worse. I'm hoping it's a fad that's been going on for 10 years and fades away soon.

I'm all for getting new hunters in the woods and water, but some of the attitudes that they bring in are wrong for the sport. In all hunting, and it's especially bad in turkey hunting.


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Good posts

I do blame social media for a lot of it, sadly most turkey hunters I've talked to under that age of 30 it's just a desperation game to hurry up and tag out the quickest and easiest way possible... I don't get it, I'm all for shooting the most efficient shells and I do shoot TSS but shooting a turkey at 50+ yards just takes the romance out of it, it's just not same chase doing it that way imo

Look at what browning is advertising.

Yeah, advertising 70 yards is just what the idiot hunters want. They wish they had a rifle.

Of course most shoot the TSS in 9's but in reality if you shoot TSS in 6's there are fewer shot per ounce than lead due to the weight. This would allow for bigger holes in the pattern.

Biggun4214":1cbfyg6s said:

. . . . . if you shoot TSS in 6's there are fewer shot per ounce than lead due to the weight. This would allow for bigger holes in the pattern.

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What you're thinking is true, to a point, but TSS doesn't distort like lead pellets, so the patterns hold together better (fewer "flyers") and additionally seem to just group "tighter" (more rifle-like) regardless.

Part of what I'm saying is that the pattern circle of TSS pellets fired from a factory "full" choke can be of same or smaller diameter than the pattern circle of lead pellets fired from an "extra" full choke.

As to the #6's in TSS, I haven't seen that commercially available, although #7s are available.
Supposedly, the #9 TSS have similar penetration to #5 lead pellets.

BackwoodsBoy":1b4mpj0a said:

Good posts

I do blame social media for a lot of it, sadly most turkey hunters I've talked to under that age of 30 it's just a desperation game to hurry up and tag out the quickest and easiest way possible... I don't get it, I'm all for shooting the most efficient shells and I do shoot TSS but shooting a turkey at 50+ yards just takes the romance out of it, it's just not same chase doing it that way imo

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Exactly

TheLBLman":daev4uhe said:

Biggun4214":daev4uhe said:

. . . . . if you shoot TSS in 6's there are fewer shot per ounce than lead due to the weight. This would allow for bigger holes in the pattern.

Click to expand...

What you're thinking is true, to a point, but TSS doesn't distort like lead pellets, so the patterns hold together better (fewer "flyers") and additionally seem to just group "tighter" (more rifle-like) regardless.

Part of what I'm saying is that the pattern circle of TSS pellets fired from a factory "full" choke can be of same or smaller diameter than the pattern circle of lead pellets fired from an "extra" full choke.

As to the #6's in TSS, I haven't seen that commercially available, although #7s are available.
Supposedly, the #9 TSS have similar penetration to #5 lead pellets.

Click to expand...

That was true till longbeards came along. They pattern stupid tight. Tighter than my tss loads at 20 yards. They just don't put the numbers up at 40 like my loads cause of less shot. Never shot 6s but 8s will hold together better than 9s and shoot tighter load percentage wise