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Offline okawbow

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Tennessee turkey opening
« 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.

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Offline Tilefish

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2025, 12:41:08 AM »
Way to go. Beautiful bird!
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Offline Austin

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2025, 03:17:32 AM »
Fun! Aint nothing like shooting a turkey with a flintlock!
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Offline old george

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2025, 04:05:18 AM »
Great looking Turk, congrats.

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Offline BillS

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #4 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.

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Offline okawbow

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #5 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.
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Offline alacran

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2025, 04:00:39 PM »
Congratulations on the fine birds and guns fellows!
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Offline wattlebuster

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2025, 05:13:49 PM »
Good looking birds guys. Congrats goes to yall
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Offline Martin S.

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2025, 03:00:55 AM »
Well done to both of you!
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Offline Keith Zimmerman

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2025, 03:22:51 AM »
Congrats guy!  Nice birds and guns.
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Offline Kurt

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Re: Tennessee turkey opening
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2025, 10:18:41 PM »
Very nice all around!
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