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General discussion => Black Powder Shooting => Topic started by: okawbow on April 12, 2025, 11:43:32 PM

Title: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: okawbow on April 12, 2025, 11:43:32 PM

Sat till 1:45 today without seeing anything and gobblers sounded far away. Made a few clucks and purrs with my homemade box call and saw a couple hens heading my way. Was watching the hens scratching around when another turkey caught my eye. This beautiful gobbler stuck his head up at about 30 yards and received a load of #6’s from my home made flintlock. Had a 9 1/2” beard and 1 1/8” spurs. Weighed about 20#. West Tennessee on my 12acre woods.
(https://i.ibb.co/5xL2ZfYt/63817877-1-BCF-4-E37-BE85-5-DC37851384-D.jpg) (https://ibb.co/cXQxq7bM)

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: Tilefish on April 13, 2025, 12:41:08 AM

Way to go. Beautiful bird!

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: Austin on April 13, 2025, 03:17:32 AM

Fun! Aint nothing like shooting a turkey with a flintlock!

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: old george on April 13, 2025, 04:05:18 AM

Great looking Turk, congrats.

george

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: BillS on April 13, 2025, 04:12:08 AM

This morning was the opening day here in western SD too.  I got this bird about 8 am.  I have killed 7 turkeys with this gun using the loads mentioned at https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=76466.msg759338#msg759338 and using #6 shot.  Today I tried 1 1/8 ounce of # 7 1/2.  At 15 yards there was enough energy to flatten the bird, and a partial dissection of the neck revealed at least one neck vertebrae shattered.  Gun has no choke but I use a plastic wad that is only partially slit.  This seems to improve pattern density.
(https://i.ibb.co/Jw6mxPzb/20250412-092616.jpg) (https://ibb.co/W48GD1cd)

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: okawbow on April 13, 2025, 05:04:56 AM

Nice bird!
I tried a shot with 9 1/2 TSS shot a friend gave me. Made a dense pattern at 30 yards. Supposed to be very effective because it is much more dense than lead.

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: alacran on April 13, 2025, 04:00:39 PM

Congratulations on the fine birds and guns fellows!

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Post by: wattlebuster on April 13, 2025, 05:13:49 PM

Good looking birds guys. Congrats goes to yall

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Post by: Martin S. on April 15, 2025, 03:00:55 AM

Well done to both of you!

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: Keith Zimmerman on April 15, 2025, 03:22:51 AM

Congrats guy!  Nice birds and guns.

Title: Re: Tennessee turkey opening
Post by: Kurt on April 15, 2025, 10:18:41 PM

Very nice all around!