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Sell me on why 20ga?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5898625" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>Seems most everything needing pondering has been pondered! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😃" title="Grinning face with big eyes :smiley:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png" data-shortname=":smiley:" /></p><p></p><p>My thought here is more about Setterman than TSS or a 20 ga vs. a 12 ga.</p><p>But before going forward and to provide full disclosure,</p><p>I, myself, do in fact do most of my turkey hunting now with a 20 ga.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><em>THAT</em></strong>, my friend, is<u> one of the most powerful, arse-kicking<em><strong> LONG RANGE</strong></em> turkey loads ever formulated</u>!</p><p></p><p>Believing I have some idea as to how you typically turkey hunt, and your thoughts on turkey hunting period, <u>I am just truly baffled as to why <em>YOU</em> would choose to load your gun with such a shell</u>?!?!?</p><p></p><p>I suspect, 90% of the birds you have killed the last many years would been 1-shot dead had you been using that same 12ga gun with a once common 1 1/4 oz lead #6 "squirrel" shell? <em>YOUR</em> average shot, what, 27 yards?</p><p></p><p>That said, I think it is and you are "smart" to have jumped on the TSS bandwagon, simply for the fact you can achieve more reliable, consistently dense (without "hole" & "flyers") like we experience with lead pellets. But, a 1 1/2 oz 12 ga load of TSS #9 may have better patterns <em>AND</em> exceed the high-probability lethal range of a 2 oz load of lead #5s.</p><p></p><p>Why go up to 2 1/2 oz of TSS when you were shooting 2 oz lead loads?</p><p></p><p>I do agree that we normally don't notice recoil when shooting a turkey, no matter what shell is in the chamber. But at the range, I'm much happier with my lighter loaded 20 ga.</p><p></p><p>If both guns are loaded with TSS, a 20 cannot outperform a 12. </p><p>But a 20 <u>with TSS</u> can roughly equal or exceed the high-probability killing range of a 12 <u>loaded with lead</u>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5898625, member: 1409"] Seems most everything needing pondering has been pondered! 😃 My thought here is more about Setterman than TSS or a 20 ga vs. a 12 ga. But before going forward and to provide full disclosure, I, myself, do in fact do most of my turkey hunting now with a 20 ga. [B][I]THAT[/I][/B], my friend, is[U] one of the most powerful, arse-kicking[I][B] LONG RANGE[/B][/I] turkey loads ever formulated[/U]! Believing I have some idea as to how you typically turkey hunt, and your thoughts on turkey hunting period, [U]I am just truly baffled as to why [I]YOU[/I] would choose to load your gun with such a shell[/U]?!?!? I suspect, 90% of the birds you have killed the last many years would been 1-shot dead had you been using that same 12ga gun with a once common 1 1/4 oz lead #6 "squirrel" shell? [I]YOUR[/I] average shot, what, 27 yards? That said, I think it is and you are "smart" to have jumped on the TSS bandwagon, simply for the fact you can achieve more reliable, consistently dense (without "hole" & "flyers") like we experience with lead pellets. But, a 1 1/2 oz 12 ga load of TSS #9 may have better patterns [I]AND[/I] exceed the high-probability lethal range of a 2 oz load of lead #5s. Why go up to 2 1/2 oz of TSS when you were shooting 2 oz lead loads? I do agree that we normally don't notice recoil when shooting a turkey, no matter what shell is in the chamber. But at the range, I'm much happier with my lighter loaded 20 ga. If both guns are loaded with TSS, a 20 cannot outperform a 12. But a 20 [U]with TSS[/U] can roughly equal or exceed the high-probability killing range of a 12 [U]loaded with lead[/U]. [/QUOTE]
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