The Pedersoli 10ga got another Gobbler...

For the fifth time this year I carried the Pedersoli 10ga out to the turkey woods. I passed on jakes on almost every prior trip, but the gobblers were playing hard to get. Didn't take too long this morning. He came in at full strut straight from fly down. Back in the truck before 7 a.m.

Very nice. I once shot a jake with my 10GA pedersoli dbl and was back in the house at 5:45AM! My favorite hunting is turkey with Blk Powder. Good eats! :thumbsup:

Very nice THB. :thumbsup:

Congratulations, Skychief.

Congratulations, that's gettin' it done !!
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Nice bird .I would love to have a 10 gauge . Tom

Darn fine bird. LOOONG beard an hooks :thumbsup: :thumbsup: What more could a guy ask for :idunno: Congrats to ya

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Congratulations, fine looking bird.

Congratulations! :hatsoff:

Good looking bird, my gun doesnt mind posing with jakes. That looks like a perfect turkey gun.

How do you like the cheek rest on that one? I've seen them with and without, all of mine are without.

I am not super wild about the cheek piece, mine is an older gun (Pedersoli tells me it was made in 1979) and I never shouldered it before I bought it used off Gunbroker. I have to force a bit to get down on the gun. I also have a later 12ga version without the cheek piece and it fits much better. A look at the current Pedersoli catalog shows they have apparently dropped the cheek piece feature on their shotguns. It sure looks good in the photos though.

:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Congrats,a fine bird fer sure.Griz

Well thanks so much for the kudos gentlemen. I hope you all are able to do even better than this for this year. :hatsoff:

That's what I was thinking, probably alright for shooting round balls though.

Nice work on the gobbler! :thumbsup:

I am envious TH. quite an accomplishment. :hatsoff:

can you please tell us your load and the shot distance?

Nicely done, congratulations. Keep yer powder dry.........Robin :wink:

Medic302 said:

can you please tell us your load and the shot distance?

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More than happy to, but I don't know how useful the info might be. I bought the gun used a couple of years ago. It was made in 1979 and has cylinder bores that are not chromed. I use Circle fly wads. I put in 100gr of fg black powder, a 1/8 inch Nitro Card, a 1/2 inch cushion wad, 1 and 1/2 oz copper plated 6 shot, and an overshot card. I would like to say this was worked up with painstaking pattern work, but the truth is this was all stuff I had laying around. The guns barrel says 109 gr powder is the max load so I backed off a bit. The 1 and 1/2 oz of shot is listed as max so that's what I use. Truth be known I haven't even formally patterned the load, but the few turkeys I have shot with it certainly all have had more than just a few pellets in their necks and heads. I have never lost a bird that I have shot.

This latest bird was under 20 yards trying to get cozy with my decoy. This is my typical distance, I don't shoot much further than that, maybe 30 max. I am lucky to be hunting some private property and there is light hunting pressure in the region. As a result the birds respond pretty well to my average at best calling and seem to come into the decoy pretty good. For my part, I sit in the bushes and brush up pretty good. As long as I don't move at the wrong time it is like I am invisible to them.

Way to go! :hatsoff: