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Post by Mars on Oct 15, 2006 9:38:55 GMT 12.75
Anybody else having/ doing the turkey shoots? The daughter and I went last Saturday and I won a tenderloin and another tenderloin today. I lent my shotgun to another guy and he won a ham with it today. Using my Remington 870 Super Magnum 12 gauge with a Turkey/super full choke tube. Daughter is using her Rossi .410. She's only getting 12 pellets on average on the paper and hasn't won but she's come close several times.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Oct 15, 2006 10:50:31 GMT 12.75
Sounds like a good time to me! But, there aren't any being held anywhere around me.
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Post by Carter Northcutt on Oct 15, 2006 13:20:19 GMT 12.75
Its been so long since I've heard of any around that I had forgotten about them. Now I am going to have to look for one somewhere.
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Post by Paws on Oct 15, 2006 13:21:41 GMT 12.75
Haven't been to one of those things since the late 70s! Don't know if they are even still having them around here. Insurance rates closed a bunch of them down. That and the fear of law suits. What do they charge for a round now?
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Post by Mars on Oct 16, 2006 1:15:19 GMT 12.75
The one that I'm going to charges $12 for 5 rounds. 12 shooters per round. It's held at the local Elks Club.
It's the only turkey shoot that has the bar open during the shoot. Normaly I wouldn't condone the mix of beer and firearms but in a competition I say let them. After a couple of beers several of them couldn't hit the target thereby eliminating themselves. ;D
Round one wins bacon
Round two wins sausage
Round three wins ham
Round four wins a turkey
Round five wins tenderloin
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Post by Brikatw on Oct 18, 2006 8:50:32 GMT 12.75
Are they shooting clay targets or a paper target Mars??? I'd like to know more of this??? <aybe we can see about getting one going around here.
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Post by Mars on Oct 18, 2006 11:22:54 GMT 12.75
They are paper targets. If interested I can send you one to give you an idea of whats being used. Targets are usualy 25-30 yards away and spaced about 4-6 feet apart. Shells are 2 3/4" of 12 gauge or smaller using 7 1/2 - 9 shot size. Most here don't allow .410 shotguns but the one I go to does.The group/person running the shoot provides the shells. Most only permit full choke or less, usualy .680 restriction. The one I go to has no choke size restrictions. Closest shot to center wins or in case of a tie they use the next closest shot. If still tie then the next rounds target is used. $2.50 per shot (normaly) X 12 shooters = $30 per round minus cost of the shells( .15c) and target (.10c) and prize(around $15.).Laws here in Tn. only allow certain groups/people to hold these shoots. Our local Moose club actualy holds a shoot within city limits. They have a mountain as a backstop.
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Post by Mars on Oct 20, 2006 12:19:20 GMT 12.75
Tonight at work I'm going to put the turkey choke tube in a lathe and put about 5 spirals cut in the inside at about 1000 of an inch in depth. This "hangs" the plastic wad thereby allowing the shot to exit the wad and keeps the wad from "blowing through" the shot pattern. Makes the choke useless for hunting unless you like hamburger before you even pick the animal up.
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Post by Mars on Oct 21, 2006 1:21:29 GMT 12.75
Slow, boring night so I just made an entire new choke tube. It was an interesting project.
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Post by brittonfaith on Oct 21, 2006 3:10:59 GMT 12.75
Haven't been to one of those things since the late 70s! Don't know if they are even still having them around here. Insurance rates closed a bunch of them down. That and the fear of law suits. What do they charge for a round now? There's still shoots around, but you might want to look just a little to the northeast. Belmont, Monroe, Noble and Guernsey Co still have quite a few. I know off hand that the FFA at Union Local High School (@ Morristown) has a shoot each week through Christmas.--Well, at least they have the past fifteen years...Watch! They'll make me a liar now. Also several of the sportsman clubs around Woodsfield are still holding them regularly. I've also seen signs around those parts for "Ham Bingo" and "Pork Poker" They have to keep them going because the only other out-of-season things to do all fall and winter are cake walks, eucher parties and keeping the fire stoked.
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Post by Mars on Oct 22, 2006 7:44:27 GMT 12.75
Won 2 hams, 1 turkey and 6lb of sausage today. Almost had a fight on my hands though! A guy with a custom gun was upset that my stock 870 was beating him. Seems that every time I won it was a close call with him but my shot was just a tiny bit closer to center then his except one time he clipped the edge of the center dot and thought he won until they checked my target and I had hit the dot taking it out of the target.
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Post by Paws on Oct 22, 2006 9:52:16 GMT 12.75
You still shootin' that super full choke? I bought one on DaGriz's recommendation a couple or three years ago and that somabich will flat lay a rifle pattern at a hundred yards now. Inside fifty it is a tight tight five inches. Sure hard on the shoulder though!
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Post by Mars on Oct 22, 2006 12:30:48 GMT 12.75
Yep, the super full with the spiral grooves in it and I had the gunsmith add a mid-line bead. The other guy was shooting a Winchester fitted with a custom barrel of around 40" and a homemade(?)choke tube. Recoil? Not a problem for me, I barely feel it. My goose hunting reloads would put the recoil from those factory shells to shame. This is the third weekend of the shoot and the custom guns are regularly losing to the factory guns and they don't seem to like it much. Oh well. ;D
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Post by Paws on Oct 22, 2006 14:11:34 GMT 12.75
Ahhhhhhhhhhh...... Soooooooooooooo......!!!! Say you sure those guys aren't using their own loads and making them light? I used a Remington Express 3 inch magnum 12guage number six shot and Hevi-shot number six 3 inch magnums and they both kicked worse than a magnum deer slug. Up at the Lion's Club in Lockbourne they loaded their own; measuring powder and shot out exact and using very light loads. That dude with the 40 incher got his barrel drawn down to full or better or does he actually have a mechanical choke installed? Got to tell the wife that you are gettin' better meat than some dude with a forty incher! Bein' a nurse, she'll appreciate that!
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Post by Mars on Oct 23, 2006 4:27:32 GMT 12.75
They buy the shells in fact they ran out and had to make a Wally world run to get more. Wally world is just a few hundred yards away from the club across the golf course. Nice to be able to jump in a golf cart and run to Wal-Mart. The guy was using a homemade choke tube. I'm assuming it was homemade. It sure looked like it. Some of the others did have their barrels turned down instead of using choke tubes. To bad they couldn't hit the target. Most of the time they only hit one corner. ;D
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Post by Paws on Oct 23, 2006 4:57:34 GMT 12.75
That's the danger of plugging a gun or choking it down so tight. You got to shoot it like a rifle else you might just plain miss the danged target.
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Post by Toby Benoit on Oct 23, 2006 9:08:24 GMT 12.75
Them super tight choked fancy pants shotguns are the reason so many turkey hunters miss! That old bird comes in to fifteen or twenty yards and the patterns as tight as a fist.
My old Winchester 1300 with an H.S Strut turkey tube holds a pattern the size of a basketball with #4's at thirty five yards. I put a set of fiber optic sights on it and it's an awesome turkey killer.
I got the gun on clearance for $289.00 about eight years ago and wouldn't take ten times that for it. I wish I could find a turkey shoot to take it to.
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Post by Mars on Oct 23, 2006 9:24:27 GMT 12.75
Well if you'd come up here we'd go to one or two or..... I'm not trying to blow the center out of the target like some of the others. Just trying different things to get a nice consistent pattern. It's a learning experience to see what different things do to a shot pattern.
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Post by Paws on Oct 24, 2006 2:00:59 GMT 12.75
Them super tight choked fancy pants shotguns are the reason so many turkey hunters miss! That old bird comes in to fifteen or twenty yards and the patterns as tight as a fist. My old Winchester 1300 with an H.S Strut turkey tube holds a pattern the size of a basketball with #4's at thirty five yards. I put a set of fiber optic sights on it and it's an awesome turkey killer. I got the gun on clearance for $289.00 about eight years ago and wouldn't take ten times that for it. I wish I could find a turkey shoot to take it to. Man I'd give my left arm to have my Winchester 1200 back! It a Remington 1100, had a 12 and a 16, my Winchester Model 12, Remington 74, Ithica 12 guage, and a Mauser 98, I got rid of when I moved from Tennessee. Need my butt kicked big time!
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Post by Mars on Oct 24, 2006 8:07:40 GMT 12.75
Only need a butt kicking if you passed those 1100's on to someone else. My brothers 1100 is on the bottom of Cayuga Lake because as he said, " I ain't passing that piece of junk on to the next person for them to put up with". I've not seen one that wouldn't jam.
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