Archer 756
40 Cal.
:hmm: Any one us a 28 ga. for turkey and if so loads please :hatsoff:
Mr. Larry wv- I would normally agree with your thought that this shot amount is a lot for a 28 gauge, with 3/4 oz. being a normal load in 28 gauge shells. However, for turkeys more shot seems to be more effective than the usual load for shooting flying birds. It may be that a very heavy-seeming load is OK for the turkeys on the ground as they are not moving very fast compared to birds on the wing; therefore the heavy load which would not deliver all the shot to a nice pattern is still good. The large slower pellet mass just keeps on plowing through the same area where the turkey is at, instead of the case with a flying bird where most of the pellets in the heavy load would be too slow and spread out to be a good load. It seems that a lighter, faster load is the ticket for flying birds though, as such a smaller mass of pellets tends to hit the quickly flying target in an efficient, simultaneous hard smack. At least that is how I look at it, and with my 20 gauge I have used 1 1/2 oz. of shot with good results on turkeys (some folks use even more shot).larry wv said:Isn't 1 1/4 oz a bit much for a 28 ga?
Larry
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