This ^^^

>>>As long as you keep your shots within 60 yards and make good shot choices it will do the job.<<<

You can use any size TSS and the above statement is true. Who would ever wanta shoot a turkey beyond 60 yards anyway?

Don't answer that, Hal.

I found that's a good number to shoot for.

Lol get it, shoot for.

I have killed further and I also have wounded birds further. It's a number I'm confident in.

The names have been changed to protect the innocent, but I once stepped off 2 kills with #9s where a guy "thought" they were at 60 yds before he shot, and it turned out he lost a lot of confidence in his ability to estimate yardages.

Well, how many steps did you take?!?

I took steps that I figured would be longer than a yard on average, and counted 89 of them. On the way back, I counted 91 of them, not trying to be long....

Holy smokes, Batman!

Just to play Devils advocate, I watched a gobbler take a 1 7/8 load of 9's dead in the chest at 40 yds, stagger and start running. Then he took another took another load in the wing. Bird was finally killed as it ran by me at 20 Yds. At the cleaning his breast was literally black with blood.

I like the 8's better but that's just me. I know a lot of people who have killed cleanly at 50-60 plus with 9's.

Bottom line TSS is wicked under real distances

I think the 1 7/8oz load is too slow to be as effective as it should be.

It also helps to hit them in the head.

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Looking at this objectively, here's what that 20 ga 1-7/8 oz load of 9s looks like at 40 yds.





Now, unless that bird was ostrich size, hitting him dead in the chest would also result in many pellets hitting his head and neck, as well as his legs.

Ain't no way physically possible that any turkey would survive the core of that pattern of those pellets at 40 yds, even if the pellets were going much, much slower than that load goes.

Man I don't know Hal they do some crazy things. I know you've killed a bunch more of them than I have but I killed a turkey in Missouri one year that was absolutely riddled with a load of copper plated 6's dead in the breast. I mean it looked like it had been done the day before. That was a little before the days that everybody took a bunch of pictures of stuff with their cell phone but I sure wish I had some pics of him.
I have no idea how that turkey was even living, much less strutting and gobbling

I just know that when you break that neck they don't keep running.