28 ga. & .410 turkeys
- FloppinTom
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
Finally got on the sub gauge board with the .410!
Get there early, stay late, sit still and don't use weather as an excuse to stay home.
Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
good job glad you got one
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Real nice of you to loan her you .410 SS!!! Congrats to the young lady!!!
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I made it into the .410 club this past Saturday. I expect I’ll carry it to a few more turkeys in 2019.
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This is my second turkey with a .410 this season.
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Yes - Stevens 555 with Trulock shooting 9.5's
- compturkeyhunter
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
DocDocHolliday wrote:I too regret the loss of that thread, so here are a couple of 28 ga birds from the last several years.
All the best,
Doc
Who made the trumpet and what make is the sxs??
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- Waddle Whacker
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
I guess I can chime in for Doc...he doesn’t seem to post very often anymore. It’s a CZ Bobwhite with a Farmer laying on top of it
Feel, don't think. Trust your instincts.
- compturkeyhunter
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
What gauge waddle whacker??
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- DocHolliday
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
Sorry boys, been a little busy of late. It’s a 28 ga CZ Bobwhite as WW said. Also as WW said the caller is one of my Zach Farmer Woodwind callers. This one is in African Blackwood.
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
Today, I went back to where I missed a bird opening day with my 20 ga. I didn't miss him today. Yildiz TK36 single-shot .410, 7/8 oz. of #9.5 SOSAM (Spawn of Satan Anti-Matter). 25-30 steps. I got drenched going after him through Tupelo and cypress swamps. The bike got me about 3 miles in from the locked gate. Old age, a Cannondale bike and treachery...Gil
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
Congratulations!
Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
Here's a 28 ga Franchi 48AL Alabama bird from 3/23, with the story.
In the afternoon I went to another place with my buddy. We decided to set up and cold call in the corner of a field.
The highlight of that hunt was that as we were working a turkey that was gobbling to us, a game warden came up and checked our licenses, and walked right out into the field looking for corn or something. I could not believe it, because he had even heard the turkey gobble once and knew we were working it. Needless to say, no more gobbling and no turkey came in.
So we then went around the property trying to learn it a little bit and stayed around till dark to try to roost one. And we did. Though he didn’t gobble, we heard him fly up.
The next morning I came back to that spot by myself early enough to get set up on the edge of the field where we thought the gobbler was roosted and hopefully would fly down to in the morning. He gobbled several times on the roost, but then flew down the other way.
However, after I went off after him trying to relocate him, I eventually found that he had actually flown about 300 yards through the woods and across a large pond or small lake.
After finally figuring out where he was gobbling from I made the long walk around to get to his side and try to work him there.
I got him to respond to soft calls but he would not budge. I tried to ease closer to him and work him from about 75 or 100 yds, but he still would not budge. I figured my set up was terrible, which it was, because he would have had to either walk through water or through very thick stuff to get to me. And I had no way to swing around and adjust my set up because it was terribly thick. So as I was contemplating what to do, I heard a limb break and looked up to see him sailing back across the pond to where we had come from.
At this point I figured that he was a young timid bird and was avoiding me. I was pretty certain that he was the same bird from the previous afternoon, and I was getting tired of his antics.
So I walked back around the pond to get back over to the other side where I thought he had flown to. There was a nice woods path that I figured he might be walking down so I figured I’d approach via it.
So after about a 30 minute walk, I got to where I thought I should be and sat down to call softly. And sure enough, he answered me, not too far away. And must likely from the path I was on. He had a distinctive soft gobble so I now knew it was the same bird that we had worked the afternoon before and I had been chasing all morning.
After about 20 minutes in that set up he never came. And he never answered me again. So I decided to ease up the path slowly and see if I could get a visual on him. So I did, and I did.
I saw him in full strut about 120 yards down the path. And at that point, I knew he had a hen with him. So I sat down right there in the path to silently watch from a distance. After a couple minutes I glimpsed a hen and noticed that she kept looking down the path towards me where I had called from. So, I hoped and hoped she'd head my way with the gobbler in tow. Since I had them pinpointed, and knew she was thinking about me already, I remained silent. And for the next 30 minutes she kept looking up and slowly pecking around my way to see if the hen she had heard calling down there would show up.
And then suddenly, she quit the pecking and started coming on down the path toward me. But alarmingly, the gobbler did not follow. That was about the worst case scenario I feared.
It didn’t take very long and she was right up on top of me. I was extremely nervous because I knew she would start putting and I figured that the hunt would be over soon as she did that. I don’t know why the gobbler was not following her, and all I could figure was that there was another hen down there still with him. Then, as expected, she stopped and putted at me, three times. But she wasn’t sure what I was and did not seem overly alarmed. In fact, she sat down right there about 15 yards from me off the side of the path where the gobbler couldn’t see her, and started to preen a little bit. I thought she was going to start dusting or something.
After a couple minutes of her sitting there and about five minutes since she left the Tom, and while I was beginning to cramp up because I couldn’t move a muscle, I looked down and saw the gobbler heading my way in a semi hurry, looking for that hen that left him. So I slowly eased my gun up into a shooting position without the hen even noticing my movement, and waited for him to get to about 30 yards.
And then I let him know that I really liked him a lot and appreciated the game he’d played with me the last two days.
In the afternoon I went to another place with my buddy. We decided to set up and cold call in the corner of a field.
The highlight of that hunt was that as we were working a turkey that was gobbling to us, a game warden came up and checked our licenses, and walked right out into the field looking for corn or something. I could not believe it, because he had even heard the turkey gobble once and knew we were working it. Needless to say, no more gobbling and no turkey came in.
So we then went around the property trying to learn it a little bit and stayed around till dark to try to roost one. And we did. Though he didn’t gobble, we heard him fly up.
The next morning I came back to that spot by myself early enough to get set up on the edge of the field where we thought the gobbler was roosted and hopefully would fly down to in the morning. He gobbled several times on the roost, but then flew down the other way.
However, after I went off after him trying to relocate him, I eventually found that he had actually flown about 300 yards through the woods and across a large pond or small lake.
After finally figuring out where he was gobbling from I made the long walk around to get to his side and try to work him there.
I got him to respond to soft calls but he would not budge. I tried to ease closer to him and work him from about 75 or 100 yds, but he still would not budge. I figured my set up was terrible, which it was, because he would have had to either walk through water or through very thick stuff to get to me. And I had no way to swing around and adjust my set up because it was terribly thick. So as I was contemplating what to do, I heard a limb break and looked up to see him sailing back across the pond to where we had come from.
At this point I figured that he was a young timid bird and was avoiding me. I was pretty certain that he was the same bird from the previous afternoon, and I was getting tired of his antics.
So I walked back around the pond to get back over to the other side where I thought he had flown to. There was a nice woods path that I figured he might be walking down so I figured I’d approach via it.
So after about a 30 minute walk, I got to where I thought I should be and sat down to call softly. And sure enough, he answered me, not too far away. And must likely from the path I was on. He had a distinctive soft gobble so I now knew it was the same bird that we had worked the afternoon before and I had been chasing all morning.
After about 20 minutes in that set up he never came. And he never answered me again. So I decided to ease up the path slowly and see if I could get a visual on him. So I did, and I did.
I saw him in full strut about 120 yards down the path. And at that point, I knew he had a hen with him. So I sat down right there in the path to silently watch from a distance. After a couple minutes I glimpsed a hen and noticed that she kept looking down the path towards me where I had called from. So, I hoped and hoped she'd head my way with the gobbler in tow. Since I had them pinpointed, and knew she was thinking about me already, I remained silent. And for the next 30 minutes she kept looking up and slowly pecking around my way to see if the hen she had heard calling down there would show up.
And then suddenly, she quit the pecking and started coming on down the path toward me. But alarmingly, the gobbler did not follow. That was about the worst case scenario I feared.
It didn’t take very long and she was right up on top of me. I was extremely nervous because I knew she would start putting and I figured that the hunt would be over soon as she did that. I don’t know why the gobbler was not following her, and all I could figure was that there was another hen down there still with him. Then, as expected, she stopped and putted at me, three times. But she wasn’t sure what I was and did not seem overly alarmed. In fact, she sat down right there about 15 yards from me off the side of the path where the gobbler couldn’t see her, and started to preen a little bit. I thought she was going to start dusting or something.
After a couple minutes of her sitting there and about five minutes since she left the Tom, and while I was beginning to cramp up because I couldn’t move a muscle, I looked down and saw the gobbler heading my way in a semi hurry, looking for that hen that left him. So I slowly eased my gun up into a shooting position without the hen even noticing my movement, and waited for him to get to about 30 yards.
And then I let him know that I really liked him a lot and appreciated the game he’d played with me the last two days.
Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
A buddy just killed this one in SC....
- doublegobble1
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
Nice Hal!
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We are definitely hooked on the 410s. One was shot at 12 yards and the other was shot at 42 yards. Thanks to all that have answered questions and provided insight over the last year of putting them and the loads together.
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Yippie, yi yo, yildie!
Nice jobs. Gil
Nice jobs. Gil
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Thanks Gil. The yildiz is a lot of fun, so much fun I might have picked up the last yildiz o/u 410 that my Academy had in stock yesterday! ; ) Seems like I always need a project.
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Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
410 9.5s 34 yds
Re: 28 ga. & .410 turkeys
Congrats Wingbonehntr! Nice bird.