It sounds like a classic weak hammer spring to me. Especially if it is the original hammer spring with 24 years of service to it’s name.
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- April 20th, 2021, 12:44 am
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Anybody ever had a misfire?
- Replies: 40
- Views: 7145
Re: Anybody ever had a misfire?
- April 17th, 2021, 12:54 pm
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: O/U or SxS question
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2812
Re: O/U or SxS question
I’m shooting a trulock modified in my open barrel. I think I’d prefer light mod.
- April 15th, 2021, 10:01 am
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: I quit
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10951
Re: I quit
I don’t think feeders are a good idea or recommended by biologists. They may hold a few turkeys in the area, but artificially concentrating turkeys in a feeder size area can make it a windfall for predators. Plus the risk of disease transmission. And I’ve heard a lot of speculation about aflatoxin p...
- April 14th, 2021, 8:10 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Registering a turkey online
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1064
Re: Registering a turkey online
I think everything has to be to the 16th of an inch, so fractions are not reduced. I.e., 1/4” = 4/16”, 1/2” = 8/16, etc.
At least that’s how TN’s online “harvest reporting” check-in system works.
At least that’s how TN’s online “harvest reporting” check-in system works.
- April 6th, 2021, 11:42 am
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: What's your closest turkey kills
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18282
Re: What's your closest turkey kills
In what state is that legal?SwampDrummin wrote: ↑April 6th, 2021, 5:01 am I’m trying pretty seriously to kill one with a samurai sword.
- April 5th, 2021, 4:34 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: What's your closest turkey kills
- Replies: 37
- Views: 18282
Re: What's your closest turkey kills
5 steps. It was a good setup for a turkey gobbling to my right. I hid in a patch of vines to my left. But the turkeys circled behind me and came in from the left, so when they came into view they were point blank.
- March 31st, 2021, 12:52 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: My thoughts..
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7132
Re: My thoughts..
Also, dekes are ghey. I warn new hunters away from the use of dolls because they will ultimately be more successful and get more enjoyment without them. I get the weirdest looks from new hunters when I tell them hard earned secrets because it isn't anything like they have seen on tv. Then become su...
- March 31st, 2021, 12:47 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
There's lot of good discussion in this thread. SS, as I mentioned earlier here, I do sincerely appreciate you posting a link to the TWRA report regardless of our dust-up elsewhere. I won't pretend for second that I have enough depth of information to offer robust suggestions on what to do about the...
- March 31st, 2021, 1:04 am
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
If all we need to do is provide an opportunity for people to kill more turkeys, so they’ll go out and manage more ground for more turkeys, and we really just need fewer government restrictions, why not just do away with tags and limits? Jut let everybody kill all they want. I’m sure they will self-g...
- March 30th, 2021, 11:35 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: My thoughts..
- Replies: 30
- Views: 7132
Re: My thoughts..
So your telling me on an internet turkey hunting forum, I can’t argue about turkey decoys? My God, man is nothing sacred?
What about roost shooting and reaping? We don't have to stay quiet about those do we?
What about roost shooting and reaping? We don't have to stay quiet about those do we?
- March 30th, 2021, 10:27 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
SS, that was a very good post that presented the argument for greater restrictions very well. I do not deny that there are places with declining populations, but I really hate to see our turkey hunting ruined in the places that are doing just fine. Most of the issues you bring up are about public l...
- March 30th, 2021, 6:50 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: The one decoy you would not leave @ home
- Replies: 54
- Views: 18884
Re: The one decoy you would not leave @ home
Good God, this thread turned into a shitshow quickly. Gil expressed a belief, not at all uncommon in turkey hunting circles and undoubtedly held by many on this forum, that hunting over decoys is not at all the same as traditional turkey hunting — i.e., finding a turkey, knowing how to set up in the...
- March 30th, 2021, 3:00 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
I think very, very few people control blocks of land big enough include a turkey’s entire home range. Their range shrinks in the spring, but even still it would take thousands of acres for me to feel like I was the only one to have called at a turkey.
- March 30th, 2021, 12:13 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
First, you are not going to make me mad. I can't speak for everyone, but I'm not married to my opinions and I think debate is a good thing. So by all means, share whatever you have the time and inclination to post. And I will most definitely read the ALDeer forum you referenced. I’ve discussed this ...
- March 30th, 2021, 9:17 am
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
Tennessee had some unusual hunting limits, especially as to fall hunting. One could go from county to county killing the county limit in one day. A few years ago, a Tennessee call maker posted his kill for one day which I believe consisted of two grown gobblers and 3 poults and apparently it was le...
- March 30th, 2021, 7:46 am
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
Something has to be done. The population is nowhere near what it was 15-20yrs ago. The legal Alabama harvest was up 53% last season over the season before. That doesn't sound like we have a declining population, and yet they went with more restrictions anyway. I am going turkey hunting, but I will ...
- March 29th, 2021, 8:14 pm
- Forum: Gobbler Talk
- Topic: Georgia season changes
- Replies: 62
- Views: 71938
Re: Georgia season changes
A couple of university professors have become famous, and probably rich, by pushing a theory that killing the dominant gobbler early in the season is responsible for declining populations. The problem I see is that they have no evidence to support it, and they will admit that they have no proof whe...
- March 16th, 2021, 8:44 pm
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: Retay red dot mount.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11077
Re: Retay red dot mount.
Drilling/tapping another hole seems like a really simple fix to this dilemma.
- March 16th, 2021, 9:38 am
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: Retay red dot mount.
- Replies: 18
- Views: 11077
Re: Retay red dot mount.
Did you check with Sumtoy? I have a couple if his mounts using the Burris/Vortex footprint, but I can’t remember if he makes them for the RMR style. Have you looked at these?: https://www.brownells.com/optics-mounting/electronic-sights/mounting-hardware/trijicon-rmr-ultralight-sync-mount-prod117007....
- March 15th, 2021, 8:40 pm
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: Gun or shells
- Replies: 86
- Views: 24050
Re: Gun or shells
M2s are popular because benellis are well built and will last a lifetime. For turkey guns, many use a Francchi Affinity as a cheaper alternative for an inertia gun. But generally, people aren’t buying a particular gun for the pattern.
- March 15th, 2021, 8:46 am
- Forum: Big Bore
- Topic: 12 ga. Benelli Mobil Chokes with TSS
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6126
Re: 12 ga. Benelli Mobil Chokes with TSS
The only gun I ever struggled with using TSS was a SBE II, though with crio chokes. I tried a handful of chokes and all were underwhelming. I got with Hal and wound up trying a different load using CSD100 wads and only split them 1/2 way down. That finally gave acceptable patterns.
- March 10th, 2021, 9:36 am
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: Yildiz O/U trigger?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1194
Yildiz O/U trigger?
I set up a Yildiz O/U 20 gauge for turkeys last year. I’m still tinkering, and have it almost like I want it. But one thing I’m reminded of every time I shoot it is that the trigger sucks. Anyone here worked on or had work done on a Yildiz trigger? I’m wondering how involved it will be.
- March 10th, 2021, 8:35 am
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: 8.5 or 9 shot
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4547
Re: 8.5 or 9 shot
At that payload, it’s really an academic discussion. 9s are usually better because they are plenty big enough to kill turkeys are all reasonable turkey ranges and they maximize pattern density. But with 2.5oz of shot, you’ll still have way more than enough pattern density with 8.5s, but the bigger p...
- March 9th, 2021, 4:20 pm
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: 8.5 or 9 shot
- Replies: 16
- Views: 4547
Re: 8.5 or 9 shot
I’ve killed a couple with the 2.5oz load. If I was going to hunt with that load again—which I’m not—I would shoot 8.5s.
- March 6th, 2021, 7:23 pm
- Forum: Gun Talk
- Topic: Hulls Available
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2995