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A Turkey Hunter's Worst Nightmare: Needing One More Shot
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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5343712" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Good article!</p><p></p><p>Personally, I only shoot once, and don't let those that hunt with me shoot more than once, unless the tom is obviously injured on the first shot.</p><p></p><p>If I miss with the first shot, he wins and I let him walk or run off. And I'm OK with that. Just my personal rules.</p><p></p><p>Now I do carry 2 more lead 6s in the magazine following my #9 tss initial shot. Those are to dispatch an obviously injured bird (one with his head still up and moving on the ground). Fortunately, that has happen only once since I made the switch to TSS 4 or 5 years ago... one my son shot a little low, the bird rolled, and as we were walking to him, he picked his head up with an obviously unsevered spinal cord. I had him put a 2nd shot of lead 6s into his upright head.</p><p></p><p>But to me, slinging shot as a followup after a miss is going to result in an injured but unrecoverable bird more often than an ethical kill.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5343712, member: 2805"] Good article! Personally, I only shoot once, and don't let those that hunt with me shoot more than once, unless the tom is obviously injured on the first shot. If I miss with the first shot, he wins and I let him walk or run off. And I'm OK with that. Just my personal rules. Now I do carry 2 more lead 6s in the magazine following my #9 tss initial shot. Those are to dispatch an obviously injured bird (one with his head still up and moving on the ground). Fortunately, that has happen only once since I made the switch to TSS 4 or 5 years ago... one my son shot a little low, the bird rolled, and as we were walking to him, he picked his head up with an obviously unsevered spinal cord. I had him put a 2nd shot of lead 6s into his upright head. But to me, slinging shot as a followup after a miss is going to result in an injured but unrecoverable bird more often than an ethical kill. [/QUOTE]
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