help please with 50 cal smooth bore turkey load

[adkmountainken]

i picked up and antique ( fully functioning ) 50 caliber smooth rifle recently and really want to kill a turkey with it. i have been hunting turkeys for the last 5 years exclusively with flintlock fowlers in 75 cal so i am at ground zero in working up a pattern for a .50 I am thinking about starting at 60 grains FF, wonder wad, 1.25 ounces of #5's and either another wonder wad or nitro card. i need to get some veg wads in near future. anyone care to share their pet 50 cal load?

 

[Britsmoothy]

Forget the wads and just use thin cards, not the thick nitro cards, just over shot card's.

 

[adkmountainken]

Forget the wads and just use thin cards, not the thick nitro cards, just over shot card's.

i will try it. for the first few years i was only using hornets nest and did kill a few turkeys using just that as buffer.

 

[Trigger]

As a buffer?.. notice much adding that...

There is Skychief load sticky around..
I have not seen many pictures of patterns just reviews and a video. it's not a choked pattern but it's better for a few more hits usually.

Nice gun. I'd want to see if I could get a woodcock with flint.

 

[Trigger]

Lol I posted this before

Print it out.. the shots show up nice on that white printer paper.

Shoot it.

 

[brazosland]

The answer for your gun is called a round ball.

 

[RiverRat]

Forget the wads and just use thin cards, not the thick nitro cards, just over shot card's.

I totally agree with this method. Those thick nitro cards shoot right through your pattern and leave a big hole in it.

 

[adkmountainken]

The answer for your gun is called a round ball.

not for turkey thats the wrong answer in NY

 

[JJohnson2023]

Lol I posted this before

Print it out.. the shots show up nice on that white printer paper.

Shoot it.

Thank you for this! That'll come in handy